The urban ecological system and the regulating mechanisms to its self-generating variables

Abstract

The city is considered as an ecosystem where the men and their societies are its subsystems. The functioning of the city is based on autoregenerative variables whose mechanisms that regulate its flexibility being the dialectical competition-exploitation versus cooperation-conservation. On the other hand, the connection and interphase between the subsystems, men, society and ecosystem which integrate them are analized, coming to the conclusion that the conscience is formed as the interphase between them. We arrive to the conclusion that this one is organized in terms of objectives and due to this, it is possible that the connection might be incomplete and distortioned. This is a mechanism to reduce and allow us to reach what we want, not to act in a sistematic way but for following the shortest, logical or causal way. It is considered that this teleological way of proceding in the solving of the cityzens' problems, is one of the main causes that provoke disfunctions in the urban system. It is noted that the predominant purposes of the conscience have their base in the determination of other peoples' behaviour in the use and transformation of the other things, and that those purposes are based on the organizations created by men. Finally, the complexity of the urban ecosystem is analized and two models of the space ocupation and material use, the energy and the time are discused. One is the zonal functionalist system and another one is a model based on the diversity and complexity increase from the parts of the system, and also a major energetic efficiency, and meterials and time saving.