My favorite subject: sustainable urbanism

sustainable urbanism

My favorite subject is sustainable urbanism along this semester we have seen contents like the first urban planners, I was surprised because this happen a short time ago; also the models of urban planning like garden city of Ebenezer Howard or industrial city of Tony Garnier, this models try to organize the city and make it functional in a way that minimizes environmental impact in the ecosystem through different ways designed especially for each type of climate and geography; we see actual problems like the floods  for the basin of Santiago  or the vertical ghettos of central station; and finally how the cities through the history  make charge of the problem about how organize the city, according to this there are two types of cities : organic city and geometric city.

In the classes we have seen all the topics previously mentioned and make tasks about them like videos about the ecological footprint, designed or own model sustainable city on sketchup, investigations works, and make a n urban plan to solve the problem of the vertical ghettos of central station, and obviously we have test, but they are more of application of matter and more practical.

I like this subject because is a good mix between theoretical matter and practical works, and cause is very important for the architects know how to solve the problems of contamination that was caused for previous generations through the sustainable urbanism. I think we can save the world through if we have the appropriate tools.