Architecture, urban and regional planning in the globalization process

Abstract

1. Main characteristics of the current process of globalization; instability created by the formation of the global society; changes in the relations of space-time in architecture and urbanism; 2. The physical planning in the face of changes; contributions of four Chartes – Atenas, La Tourrette, Andes and UIA / Beijing-, of geographers and economists for the field of regional planning and architecture; the current changes and their consequences in the process of physical planning; 3. The modular production in the globalization; time of construction of buildings in view of the transformations; the immobility submits the building to its urban context; the mobility in the construction process of buildings is fundamental for new configurations of the city; 4. The environmental factors in the process of globalization and the introduction of safeguards of territorial character; the scattering of activities and the consequent conversion of the local in a commonplace; the global architecture and its foreign elements disrespect cultural and environmental values; 5. Preservation of human dimension and the increased value of the local must give an outstanding place to the social sector and guarantee the ways for the development of architecture and planning.