Urbanism 1850-1900

Urbanism
1850-1900

I. Urbanism

A. Definition

B. History

C. Etymology

II. How does it work?

A. Uses

B. Power

C. Methods

III. Spain

A. Lawsfor Urbanism

B. Madrid

C. Barcelona

The urbanism is the discipline of study aims to cities, from a holistic perspective faces the responsibility to studying and managing urbansystems. The actual term should be concretized-Urbanism-Spanish engineer Ildefonso Cerdá. It is an ancient discipline that incorporates concepts from multiple disciplines and area of practice and study verylarge and complex. According to some, would be a science that would be under the social sciences (geography, sociology etc..) And, as others, would be an art, traditionally associated witharchitecture, is a set of practical knowledge that provide the fundamentals to solve the problems of cities, in this duality in sight descriptive and explanatory nature of, urbanism as a science versusprescriptive of planning as art, though both approaches necessarily feed off each other.
The urbanism began as a complex theory that interested from the first students of the city and ended up as adiscipline that brings together a substantial amount of knowledge related to construction and maintenance of cities and the study of social relations economic-environmental phenomenon occurs within the city,which is currently a range of professionals: architects, economists, geographers, engineers, sociologists and urban planners exclusively.
The term "urbanism" comes from the Latin word urbs (‘city’),which in antiquity was referring to the capital par excellence of the Roman world, Rome. First appears in the dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy in 1956 and is defined as "body of knowledgerelating to the study of the creation, development, reform and progress of the villages in order to the needs of urban life". Clearly the idea of settlement does not meet the current extent of urban...