ECOSYSTEM TRANSITION OF THE CITY An Impossible option (original) (raw)

According to the UN-Habitat 2020 Population Data Booklet, the world population living in the existing 1934 large metropolises is 2.6 billion people: one-third of the world's population. By the year 2050 will be 66% of the world population living in cities. Urban agglomerations today occupy 7.6% of land mass of the planet. Data that obliges us to continue with an in-depth and critical review of the advent of contemporary cities whose growth pattern is unsustainable: the current development of cities occurs in a dynamic independent of geographical contiguity, ignoring codes coming from land, water, atmosphere and from the vegetal ecosystems. Aspect that is potentiated by the advancement of the communications technology that creates a strong impact on the urban transformations that seems dispense the "obstacle" space according to the apparent needs of "liquid society". The Nature and City have lost their binding force of deep symbolic synthesis due to the explosion of the "symbolic" force of the metropolises that is transformed into predatory, anonymous, uncontrollable forces, with obvious disastrous sequences for the balance of the world. Today is imperative to stop and look carefully at the real interrelationships that the coexistence of natural and built elements suppose in the midst of the chaotic situation of contemporary cities where the ecosystem transition, like a possible future, looks for the moment really impossible.