Advantages of Planned cities
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Urbanism, as we know it today, is the result of the fight against the urban living conditions prevalent in the mid-19th century. These conditions had created the perfect breeding ground for the emergence of infectious diseases and subsequently, the premature death of a great many people; a situation that put rapidly expanding industrial capitalism at risk.
The working classes lived in deplorable conditions, comparable to modern-day slums and favelas, and this led to an unsustainable loss of labor. Hygienic urbanism—Ildefons Cerdà is one of the key figures—emerged to plan and organize the construction of the city with the aims of avoiding social revolts, mitigating the growing inequalities, and striving for a universal standard for quality of life, with a certain dose of utopia. This is history—roughly outlined—and it is a lesson to be remembered and recovered, but we must not fall into the trap of drawing a direct parallel to the current situation.
The living conditions of the “planned” cities of the western world where we are confined today, have not been the cause of this disease, nor of its spread. The origin is still uncertain and its spread is related to the structure of the globalized world.
Until we reached practically global levels of confinement, the number of people traveling and moving around the planet daily was still in the millions. This explains why it could jump directly from China to Italy and onward, crossing oceans. Therefore, the baseline is different to that of the 19th-century city.
In fact, the urban conditions of these planned cities have great advantages to manage the effects of such situations and it is worth acknowledging these positive aspects.
Market day, Port de la Selva, Spain
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