UTILITY NETWORKS IN URBAN PLANNING PLANS: EVOLUTION OF ITS GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION

Jordi GOMIS, Carlos TURÓN, Ramón RIPOLL

ABSTRACT: Usually, the plans of the utility network have been incorporated into planning documents as basic diagrams that establish a design and principle of estimated dimensions, principle that will later be developed technically and with absolute precision in a document not pertaining to the actual urban planning document, often drafted by specialized engineers and not by urban planning technicians. However, increasingly stringent conditioning factors, both in terms of how space should be occupied and the quantity and quality in the design of these utility networks, force us to deal with this as another factor determining urban planning and not, as used to happen, as a simple annex that can developed "a posteriori". The present article studies and reflects on the evolution of the graphic representation of utility networks in urban planning plans. It is based on the analysis of a significant enough sample performed under scientific criteria from assumable field work, sufficiently indicative and representative and which spans a significant period in time.

Keywords: Urban mapping, utility networks, city planning, graphic representation, urban drawing.

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