Cities & Their Territories Final Paper

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Cities and their Territories
Infrastructure used should be left in the hands of the professionals that are engineers and architects. The function to handle infrastructure was strict to them and government needed an exclusive realm of professional to plan for the same. However, the time has struck down this theory and today we have to involve more than the architects and engineers when planning, be it landscape or urbanism, the two professionals are no longer enough. Today, more social, political, economic, and technological factors have increased challenges to the urban planners who not only need to meet the demand of the increased population and space available but also look at the deteriorating environment. There are so many aspects to consider as a planner and this is giving architects hard time when trying to comply with all the new regulations and as well make space available viable. To come up with something solid and viable, the budget has to enough, there must be compliance with the environmental regulation and today these regulations are becoming more and more stringer. There need to carefully factor technology aspect of it too. Today technology is improving at a very fast rate and hence the planners and architects need to consider future technology. This paper is going to examine the future landscape and urbanism.
Looking at a more traditional approach of what urbanism means then one can clearly see the confusion that lies in the inquiry of design versus planning. As this paper hope to determine what the future holds for urbanism and landscape, and then the idea of urbanism requires looking at the function of the cities in their economic, sociological, and ecological situations rather than just a strategy for action. There is a need to recognize that urban is no longer a dense area of agglomeration anymore. As we aim to look at the future holding, then we have to project on the humanistic, alternative and sustainable forms of landscapes, urbanism and future cities by addressing the key humanistic issues of the ecological urbanism. How they will be organized, the role played by the planning and design in landscape architecture. There is also need to look at whether the new, old and the shrinking cities can be sustained and be socially included to get the real meaning of ecology beyond the mere environmental aspect but also to include the political, social, and cultural.
Planners and designers have the capabilities to use and imagine better futures of the urban landscape for the new coming up cities, population-shrinking cities and the old cities. Planners and designers have been forced to assume a more speculative posture which has led to imagination of better environmental futures due to the pressure of current global conditions which include and not limited to, climate change, urban population densification, aggressive disasters of outbreaks, biodiversity loss, social inequality, public health, social freedoms, biopolitical knowledge and technological advancement. Discussion on ecology urbanism will aid in putting into perspective the development and ecological crisis and the respective planning and design response.
In general, among the disciplines of landscape and design, l...