Today's urban planner as a dynamic agent of sustainable territory

Abstract

Given the dynamics of complexity of the urban objects that make up cities, attempts have been made to understand the practice of the urban in response to  spatial indeterminacies. In this sense, the objective of this article is to analyze the skills of the urban planner in times of uncertainty based on the  variables: sustainability, political-administrative, infrastructure-territory and social. The study was approached through the mixed research approach,  which allows meta-inference based on quantitative and qualitative data, obtained from architectural professionals who serve as objects of study, who based on the urban planning component developed in their professional training It contributes to assessing the skills of the urban planner. The results  indicate that, despite  the advances in sustainable construction of cities through strategies for efficient management of natural phenomena in  inhabited space, it is necessary to think about intelligent systems within urban practices as a fundamental component of the designs. It is concluded that the task of the urban planner is to mediate between the spatial reality and disciplinary  technical knowledge in the processes of urban configuration, therefore, it constitutes an interdisciplinary epistemological-projectual relationship that responds to socio-spatial complexity, whose practice requires technical skills of soft  tools that make possible citizen participation, sustainability in the construction and  construction of the territory to balance the relationship between man and nature, acting as a mediator of the technical component in urban construction.