What is urban planning: the art of designing cities that enchant people

Life is not perfect, but it can be made easy, do not you think?

Everything that is planned ends up presenting, in the end, better results.

And when we talk about urbanism, this could not be different.

But, after all, what is urban planning?

This expression comes from England and the United States, but the exercise of planning cities comes from much older civilizations. In all cases, the goal was always the same: to respond to the problems faced by the gathering of many people in the same housing area.

What is urban planning?

To prevent villages from growing spontaneously, with confused and unconfined neighborhoods and neighborhoods, planning was increasingly sought.

This is an urban process that, in fact, improves various aspects of cities, such as people's quality of life. And this is even better ensured by the existence of the so-called Master Plan.

The Master Plan is created by planners, authorized by the State, and guards rules for the action of those who construct and use urban spaces.

Examples of urban planning in Brazil

The best known case of a planned city in Brazil is Brasília. It was built in the fifties, during the government of Juscelino Kubitschek and came to serve as the seat of federal public administration.

But in the country, there are also other examples of urban planning projects, as well as the architecture of Brasília.

The most current are the Porto Maravilha region, in Rio de Janeiro and the Jardim das Perdizes, in São Paulo.

Maravilha Port

Garden of the Partridge

Examples of urban planning in the world

Songdo

Located in South Korea, Songdo is a city that was planned to be simply the most sustainable in the world.

It was designed to have many parks, bike paths and vehicle sharing systems.

In addition, we looked for everything that was more innovative and technological when it comes to architecture and urbanism.

Eixample

The Eixample district is located in Barcelona, ​​Spain.

It was designed by the engineer Ildefons Cerdà to be an ideal example of urban planning and was part of a scheme of development and reform of the city.

It is characterized by wide avenues, parallel and perpendicular to each other - a clear proposal of equality between classes through architecture.