An Urbanistic Project Based on General Systems Theory

Abstract

This paper intends to be an outline of the Urbanistic Development Planning of the Valencian Community in Spain to be performed during the years 1991 to 1993, The following are considered as objectives of the Planning:

• – Quality of Life improvement,

• – protection of Nature,

• – rational management of natural resources,

• – rational use of land; all based on social demand. The territory and the mechanism of intervention is considered as a system whose elements can be grouped as:

• – uses of land,

• – infrastructure, equipment, services,

• – objectives,

• – intervention and management.

The Planning proposes itself to be: integral, strategic, prospective, programmed, controllable and participative, A simulation model will be built on this base, The Quality of Life is defined as a linear function of the “state indicators” (analphabetism, delinquency, hope of life, morbility, etc,), and it is obtained from real data using Multivariate Analysis. Parallelly, Quality of Life is obtained dynamically from the “Level of Life”, that is calculated as a linear function of “level indicators” such as park surface, energy consumption, number of beds in hospitals, etc. The relation between Quality of Life and Level of Life is a non linear regression function obtained from data of the past.