Documentary approach to energy concepts in the traditional city

Abstract

In the present context of the economy’s internationalization, reconsidering the urban systems and the competitive between metropolis, we see in the past the opportunity to find some examples which can help us to improve the projects in present-future. The urbanism and the contemporary architecture cannot be understood without including in its definition a rethinking towards something sustainable, trying to answer large climatic and sustainable worries, which challenge the habitability in the cities. In this sense, the urban proposal which are looking for propitiate a context more consistent with the actual environmental logics seem to share, at least, one problematic: urban systems are considered obsoletes, cities which in many occasions are not understood, or are not read according the important possibilities presented.