Built Environment Protection – From Curative Actions to Preventive Actions

Abstract

The built environment is nowadays central point of some critical problems as well as of a huge resource potential. The challenge consists in its improving. We may notice two trends in our concerns to give out curing solutions for the cities, for the built environment. The first trend is concerned mainly on pollution aspects, environment impact, and increased volume of traffic, urban texture demolition, natural landscape and built landscape depreciation. The second trend is concerned by the increasing acknowledgement of urban environment potential, social, cultural and economical significances, the way we arrange out living space. The preventing urbanistic surveys are trying, for the moment, to set up general future directions, acknowledging the present possibility limit of urbanistic forecasting, steadily recommending a main principle attitude: man as the center of all concerns, aiming to place the individual, with his personality and aspirations, in a built environment whose scale not to “smash†him, transforming him in a simple mathematic or informational element of a high tech gearing and whose control the society may lose.