Towards a re-enlivening of an urbanistic rational

Abstract

Thirty-three years of practice with the modern Spanish planning model (1956/76) have led to a crying need to reconsider this from the bottom up in order to overcome the innumerable contradictions and dead ends that so discredit it and make it so intractable, it being no longer possible to patch it nor mend it, thought it he a master who tries. An epistemological boiling dawn to the root-meanings of those elements, configurations, rules and relations that structure the logic proper to a town planning discipline, is attempted to the end of founding a universal nomothetic knowledge up to overcoming any idiographic particularities (even going so far were it to be necessary as inventing new terms to make this knowledge more readily identifiable). Within the framework of the present Spanish Constitution new and alternative models are proposed that would deepen the socio-economic logic that underlies that constitutional cultural paradigm. The conceptual and expeditive simplification, the proceedural ease and egalitarianism of the models put forward could all stem from the standardization of that part of their material and limited ownership basis that could be aduced for their principals, elements and basic interrelations there then serving to deepen our understanding of the Constitutional paradigm it self.