Ciudades simbióticas como hábitat de una sociedad plural y comprometida

Abstract

The city, being the structure that supports more than a half of the world population, is therefore the most important area where the necessary and radical change is needed to achieve the sustainability of the planet. This change is based on a endogenous cultural evolution towards a “shared poverty”, where the socio-human ecosystem diversity is assumed as a positive value and where the inhabitants’ quality of life on a equally planet is attained. A vision of a city evolution that grows inwards is prefigured, which means an increasing of its density, complexity, diversity and quality. This vision also treasure unconventional resources, taking those marginal places where they prevail as high potential. The evolutionary variables system’s research should be based on the human needs and the urban satisfiers derived from them; this way the indicators would be the instrument by which the quality of resident’s life would be measured. All this would make it possible to extrapolate the cities’real conditions and to draw strategies for the evolution towards symbiotic cities.