Máquinas para la producción del espacio: los diagramas como herramientas para los ensamblajes urbanos

Abstract

This research addresses the contemporary problem of planning the urban realm. For that purpose, it makes a theoretical approach about the difficulty of the representation of this phenomenon. It make us to focus in the minimum graphic expression of the socio-spatial assemblies: The urban diagrams. It will analyze some paradigmatic examples of this kind of diagrams, studying the way in which are combined theirs basic components, relating them with the values of the era and place where were produced. At the same time, the intention is to verify if they are the results of a tradition and something productive (able to create difference. At the end, we want to show the complexity and no-linearity of the processes of production of space and, mainly, highlight the deep influence of the underlying cultural values.