Urban planning, education and city: new learning environments from urban realities

Abstract

The article addresses the processes of education and training in the fields of urban planning, design and urban planning. In the introduction, it outlined two realities: on the one hand, that currently the majority of the world's population lives in cities (80 % in Latin America); on the other hand, do emphasis is placed on the educational capacity of cities themselves. As a methodology, the study of three aspects related to the training of undergraduate students in the disciplinary fields mentioned was established. In three sections, it presented the results: i) conventional learning environments; ii) urban learning environments; and iii) two contemporary themes for learning: human dignity and urban sustainability. It concludes, among other things, that an ethical vision of architecture implies de-constructing scenarios from where it is learned so that they become spaces conducive to the understanding of urban social phenomena.