Sustainable quality as a conceptual challenge for the analysis of metropolitan urban tissues.

The case of the metropolitan region of Córdoba 1990-2020.

Abstract

The extension of contemporary cities in metropolitan territories is a phenomenon that challenges both conceptual structures to understand it and tools for its management. In particular, the current planetary environmental crisis requires reviewing the ways of transforming the territory to create a habitat with new quality references. The growth with urban extensions on periurban territories has been recognized as one of the main factors of environmental deterioration since it consumes rural territory that has provided environmental services. In addition to being reduced, these rural territories receive negative impacts from the urban area. On the other hand is recognize as territory of segregation and loss of public space. This paper searches conceptual proposals for analyse territorial transformations, that are suitable to investigate the metropolitan fabrics understood as the component of the habitat where urban decisions (layout, infrastructure, subdivisions) are related to architecture, with a focus on public space and the relations to architecture shaping it.