Planeamiento digital, la primera pieza de una ciudad virtual de mantenimiento distribuido

Abstract

Recently in Spain have emerged several technologies to convert urban planning into a digital system (Extremadura, Castilla y León, Canary Islands…). In this document are set out the main features that describe the proposal of digital urban planning included in the program “Impulso del Urbanismo en Red” started by the Ministry of Industry of Spain, whose computing architecture has been designed by the author of this paper and summarized in the following items: * Definition of an information structure incorporated in a GML file capable to contain any plan regardless of their origin, complexity or duty and to be able to associate security codes to ensure their inviolability (electronic signature). For such purpose is established a data model which contains the main components and the relationships between them in a language of “operation” among several plans in order to achieve an adapted plan through a computing automated mechanism. * Specification and development of all the drawing tools for urban planning in order to make easier the duty of urban planning editors to make digital plans with a digital structure established. * Creation of official registries for urban planning to control the state of those documents by registration tasks. These registries are responsible of publishing the plans, and include validation, registration and adaptation of urban planning in regional information systems that ensure legal effectiveness not only for the separated plan but also the final adapted plan. * Developing tools to control, to validate and to adapt the plans in order to keep maintained the digital registries by the relevant authorities. * Standardize definition of systems and languages for graphic viewing and provide the access to the legal documents of urban planning and for using Internet as the only access channel to these documents and a way to obtain digital planning with total legal effectiveness. * Specification and development of computing tools to provide consulting services through standard WMS, WFS and XML services. Reach a consensus in the definition of stable drawing styles that facilitates legibility of urban planning regardless of producer, range or legal documents that supports them. * Definition of a city planning legal framework (state, regional) that consider these digital planning systems. * Establishment of the basis for standardization developments of urban planning concepts that facilitate its integration in the different state or regional levels and set all the mechanisms of aggregation and reuse of these levels gradually. * Improving the stages of official processes in urban planning, making the entire life cycle of digital plan ensuring its participative role, giving legal status to the reported systems based on digital techniques, building universal access systems through Internet to consult, suggest and complain with the following conditions: the consulted plan must correspond to the approved one; the information available must correspond to the whole plan; consulting and navigation system shall become so simple that allows easy access to all the information; finally, analysis and validation systems must be designed to verify the quality of the plans as an assistance to the legal report for approval. This document sets out a solution that comply all these conditions and it stands as a possible standard for urban planning systematization and digitization, as first stage for adding management and building processes in order to make a whole territorial information system