November 8 is the day the world celebrates Urbanism. It's not a very famous day, there's no echo of the day in the streets. The truth is, I don't know that urbanism has anything to celebrate. The efemeredia states that this is a day to promote the planning and sustainable life of the urban community with the closest environment. Capitalism has promoted large cities or megapoliss, an idea of habitability that has been built with instruments of urban and territorial planning; we can say that urbanism is a hand of human policies or a draft of necropolitical objectives.
Urbanism orders and regulates the admissible activity in each section of land: here you can cultivate, here you can build houses. When thinking about the usefulness of the Earth, economic rules and the improvement of human life (of some) have prevailed. What is not de facto in this equation is to create coexistence with other living beings. Animals live scared in the vicinity of cities and we've eliminated insects in rural lands. In some lands we protect some animals so that they can be destroyed ethically more calmly in the rest of the land. But there's growing evidence that many human diseases are related to the creation of low-biodiversity residential environments, and that cities' vast concrete surfaces are poor at the growth of life similar to human. That is why it can be said that the urbanism we have practiced is that of necrourbanization.
We have made a mistake: in order for human life to be the right one, we will expel animals and organisms from our places of residence, losing the measure of cleanliness that would protect us, and sterile accommodation will end up throwing man (the weakest bodies first). In view of the result given to us by the rehearsed urbanism, perhaps we should create plots that leave out man, undeveloped spaces, so that nature can live freely and without our help. These may be the islands to learn from coexistence.
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