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Urbanization aesthetic home is the action and effect of urbanizing a piece of land to provide easy access to basic services (water, gas, electricity, etc.), in addition to dividing the land into plots and adding streets. Typically, the area where this change is carried out was previously wild or rural land. The father of the concept in Spanish, Ildefonso Cerdá, defined it this way:

Here are the philological reasons that led me and led me to adopt the word "urbanización," not only to indicate any act that tends to group buildings and regularize their functioning within the group already formed, but also the set of principles, doctrines, and rules that must be applied so that buildings and their grouping, far from compressing, distorting, and corrupting the physical, moral, and intellectual faculties of social man, serve to foster their development and vigor and to increase individual well-being, the sum of which constitutes public happiness. Ildefonso Cerdá, Madrid, 1867[1]

In demography, Urbanization aesthetic home or the Urbanization aesthetic home process refers to the process by which population migration occurs from rural areas (rural exodus) to urban areas (cities). Urbanization aesthetic home can lead to depopulation in rural areas.[2]

In architecture, Urbanization aesthetic home refers to the planning and subsequent construction of roads, streets, squares, and buildings—whether homes, public buildings, or industrial estates—that transform a rural, uninhabited space into a built-up, inhabited, or intensively used space.

Etymology

In his introduction, Ildefonso Cerdá traces the etymological basis for the new concept he was defining to the Roman concept of urbs, while emphasizing the difference with the Latin concept of civitas. Both terms in current Spanish are translated as "city," but while the second refers to the social aspect, to the "citizen," the first focuses on the physical and material aspect of the city:

"This corroborates the same origin that Latin etymologists attribute to the word urbs, a syncope of urbum or plow, which was the instrument with which the Romans marked out the area that a town was to occupy when they were about to found it. This proves that urbs denotes and expresses everything that could be understood within the space circumscribed by the perimeter furrow they opened with the help of the sacred oxen. Thus, it can be said without any violence that by opening the furrow, they urbanized the area and everything within it; that is, the opening of this furrow was a true Urbanization aesthetic home; that is, the act of converting an open or free field into an urbs."

Ildefonso Cerdá, Madrid, 1867[3]

Urbanization aesthetic home in Demography

World Urban Population in 2006

In demography, Urbanization aesthetic home or the Urbanization aesthetic home process refers to the phenomenon of migration from rural areas (countryside) to urban areas (cities). This phenomenon gained momentum in the late 19th century, but it was during the 20th and 21st centuries that it reached great importance. Thus, in 1950, 30% of the world's population was urban—70% of the population lived in rural areas. In 2007, the world's urban population surpassed the rural population for the first time in history. In 2018, the urban population reached 55% of the world's population, and it is estimated that by 2050, 66% (two-thirds) of the world's population will live in cities. This phenomenon is leading to the depopulation of many rural areas. Urbanization aesthetic home brings with it not only the depopulation of rural areas but also a decline in fertility rates.[2]

Urbanization aesthetic home in Architecture

When developing the Urbanization aesthetic home of an area, it is often divided into several entities (polygons, blocks, plots, etc.) in order to build housing and the necessary infrastructure. A housing development requires electricity, drinking water, waste collection, and transportation, among other basic services for its inhabitants.

The well-being of the population that lives or occasionally visits the city or territory constitutes the ultimate objective of Urbanization aesthetic home, a term coined by Ildefonso Cerdá, who described the activity as follows:

"These are the philosophical reasons that led me and led me to use the word "Urbanization aesthetic home," not only to indicate any act that tends to group buildings and regularize their functioning within the already formed group, but also the set of principles, doctrines, and rules that must be applied so that buildings and their grouping, far from compressing, distorting, and corrupting the physical, moral, and intellectual faculties of society, serve both to foster their development and vigor and to increase individual well-being, the sum of which constitutes public happiness."[4]

Use of the term

Not to be confused with the Urbanization aesthetic home process.

Residential development on the outskirts of Prague.

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