Model of the urban system at the scale of the urban zone

Abstract

The present article, part of a work presented in 1971 as a thesis for the admittance as specialist of the National Research Laboratory of Civil Engineering, is an attempt to present the urban system as such that it should become possible to obtain and handle the necessary information to intervene within its scope, by programing alternative projects for building the urban space. The analysis is limited to the scale of the «urban zone», a part of the urban aglomerate which does not correspond to a given physical area but indicates the scope and contents of the urban phenomena to be analysed and solved in order to project an urban area of architectural intervention. An attempt is made to define a model of representation of the urban system, naming and relating those elements and characteristics which should prove significant for the designing of projects at the scale of the urban zone.