World-wide modernization as against the Ecological and Social Transformation of a Territory

Abstract

The paper argues for an abandoning of any world-wide modernization schemes if a social and ecological transformation of a territory is what is sought after, seeing the urge to world-wide uniformity as being father to uncontrolled urbanization processes and these, in turn, given their especially high incidence in outlying areas, as giving rise to an ever more marked inequality throughout human society as well as growing environmental imbalances on a world scale consequent upon the non-stop growth then bring about's action upon the limited nature of the biosphere. The paper also claims that the basic content of regional and urban planning answers to the interests that are the drives to world-wide solutions, these seeking and unstoppable growth in both Supply and Demand at a universal level to the detriment of the same activities carried on locally. The paper also maintains that the economic and production practices in use most commonly adapt best to the metropolitan area which in turn is the most economically, socially and environmentally unstabilizing factor that these practices in use spawn and that in themselves, these are thanks to a whole series of variously derived crises condemned to an ever increasing ungovernability. The paper concludes by seeing the present tendency towards an ever more global structuring of economic activity as being the guarantee for an unimaginable growth in already existing inequalities in the context of which, the metropolis will become an outstanding scenario on which the world will play out its universal crises.