Integrated Planning: Towards a Mutually Inclusive Approach to Infrastructure Planning and Design

Dario Hernan Schoulund, Carlos Alberto Amura and Karina Landman
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Dario Hernan Schoulund: Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
Carlos Alberto Amura: Department of Constructions and Structures, School of Civil Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Las Heras Campus, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1126, Argentina
Karina Landman: Department of Town and Regional Planning, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, Hatfield Campus, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: Increasingly independent fields of specialization, civil engineering, and urban design find themselves practicing in isolation on the same urban issues. The result surfaces on the relative qualities of public spaces: projects that are functionally successful but spatially poor, and vice versa This is critical in the global south, where infrastructure is prioritized, and politicized, as the key driver of change but often heedless of spatial consequences. The present study explores the dynamics of integration between logics arising from technical and spatial fields, and the planning processes under which such integration is feasible. An urban design/infrastructural project in Argentina, stalled for more than two decades under regulatory policies, was selected as a case study. An overview and background of the adopted planning/design methodologies are followed by a structural/spatial analysis, focusing on type, logistics, and construction on the one hand, and on indicators of successful public spaces on the other: access, uses, comfort and image. Aspects that a priori appeared as inevitable compromises found a common, but the critically logical ground in which urban and structural thinking complemented each other. More than a functional asset, infrastructure presents an opportunity to re-think the future of the built environment as a typology that could be conceived, designed and evaluated, on the same terms as successful public spaces.

Keywords: integrated spatial planning; urban infrastructure; structural design; urban design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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