Notes on the obsolescence of general land use plans: Strategic planning and urban model

Abstract

The discipline in charge (historically) of establishing an operative for decision making regarding the model of territorial urban planning of our cities, urban planning, tries to confront the crisis, already systemic, of its methodological tool par excellence, the land use general plan. The paradigm shiftbased on the culture of plan and regulatory orthodoxy towards heterodox procedures-mainly based on the project’s uniqueness and its articulation through strategic management-is configuring a new type of urbanism, limited territorially and conditioned temporarily (as a consequence of the scale and programming that this type of interventions-partial-on the urban supposes), a “myopic” urbanism, which does not manage to have a global vision of long range of the urban model that the city must pretend for its future. The present study analyzes the current state of municipal urban planning, proving the impact that this paradigm shift has had, and has, on it and therefore on the urban models that underlie and derive from it, certifying, according to the results obtained, its eminent-already dramatic-obsolescence.