City Urban Planning Research Articles

Effect of Greenbelt Water of Green Roof Index Defined and Planning Measures

Green roof is the source of emission reduction measures for sponge city construction. Green roof rate is the volume capture ratio of annual rainfall of the secondary indicators in sponge city urban planning, one of the city special planning or sponge around urban regulatory detailed planning with clear requirements. Green roof is the sponge as the source of urban rainwater runoff water quality of the construction of water control facilities, while effectively improve urban water environment, in order to maintain the growth of plant needs, green roof greening also to have certain demand. Higher the green roof rate is, the better the annual runoff control rate is, but the increase in water demand is also inevitable. Based on the statistics of the sett value of green roof rate for the existing parts of the city, the related relationship between the green roof rate and the plant watered to demand was putting forward based on the urban green plant water demand. On the sponge city planning, the green roof rate is provided with basic and scientific supporting under the premise of considering the greenbelt water.

The Effects of Length of Residence and Exposure to Violence on Perceptions of Neighborhood Safety in an Urban Sample.

Perceptions of neighborhood safety shape the well-being of individuals and communities, affecting neighborhood walkability, associated physical activity behaviors, and health conditions. However, less is known about the factors that determine perceptions of safety. One factor that may affect perceptions of neighborhood safety is the length of time someone has lived in their neighborhood. We use a representative, adult sample of urban low-income residents from the 2015 New Haven Health Survey (n = 1189) to investigate the associations between length of residence (new residents of <1year in neighborhood versus longer-term residents of 1 or more years in neighborhood) and perceptions of neighborhood safety (whether feeling unsafe to walk at night). We then examine the potential moderating effect of exposure to neighborhood violence on these associations. We find that the association between length of residence and perceived safety differs by exposure to neighborhood violence. Among those unexposed to neighborhood violence, longer-term neighborhood residents were more likely to feel unsafe compared to new residents (OR = 2.03, 95% CI 1.19, 3.45). Additionally, the effect of exposure to violence on feelings of safety was larger for new residents (OR = 9.10, 95% CI 2.72, 30.44) compared to longer-term residents (OR = 1.88, 95% CI 1.28, 2.77).Our findings suggest that length of residence may have implications for feelings of safety, and that experiences of violence may uniquely contribute to feelings of unsafety among new residents. These findings hold implications for interventions and policy efforts aimed at neighborhood safety improvements through community development, housing, or city urban planning initiatives, particularly for new neighborhood residents or those who experience neighborhood violence.

Sustainability of Heritage Preservation in Academic Education of Architects in Lithuania

Research of urgent problems and new aspects of contemporary tendencies in architect education of the preservation of cultural heritage in Lithuania has been carried out by the team of Department of Architectural Fundamentals, Theory and Arts, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Within the framework of the Sustainable Rehabilitation of the Historic Towns in Europe” (SURE), project funded by EU with the collaboration among the Polish, Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian counterparts, Vilnius team has performed the research on the problems in emerging tendencies in the highest education on the preservation of the cultural heritage in Lithuania. The questionnaires for the opinion pooling were sent to the selected threefold type of the recipients: educational-scientific, public-state, and private-professional (Best Practices Handbook 2017). The research of enquire reflected devastating effect of recent processes of urban planning in Lithuania in the immovable cultural heritage area: neglect of cultural landscape value in urban planning of cities, concern of identity loss and negative impact of globalization, lack of proper maintenance and use of historic buildings. Contrary to these revealed problems plea of recent international strategic documents emphasize variety of ways of contribution of historic areas in bettering of urban life. Lack of ecological approach in urban heritage planning, tension between contents of academic programs and official aims of strategic documents ratified by the State, difference in expectations of theoreticians and practicing urban planners were revealed by the results of completed research. The differences in attitudes of academicians and professionals, i.e. inadequate reflection of urban heritage in urban planning processes, shortcomings in integrating of local communities into preservation processes and academic education of architects were clearly stated. Variety of important issues in relation with protection of cultural heritage and sustainability was unveiled in academic education of architects in Lithuania. Provided questionnaires and collected results of the answers, after the completed analysis of the education programs and expert survey disclosed the shortage of ecological knowledge in the field of cultural heritage protection. Considering revealed problems and needs integration of sustainability and urban heritage preservation should be proposed as one of major target for the improvement of existing educational system of architects in Lithuania. Primarily targets to be hit by the alteration of the situation would be the reduction of the lack of ecological approach in urban heritage planning, diminished tension between contents of academic programs and official aims of strategic documents ratified by State and lowered difference in expectations among the theoreticians and practicing urban planners. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sace.21.4.19178

Role of green space in urban planning: Outlook towards smart cities

The challenges that urbanisation pose is multi-faceted. Land allocation priorities to urban green cover are usually neglected or readily negotiated in the countries that are in transition. Urbanisation devoid of urban green can cause many social and physical impacts on its residents. Hence, locally suitable Green Index should be devised and incorporated in the urban planning of cities, in spite of the size of the city. This analysis is to showcase the green index for the planning of smart cities. The devised green index is verified in the real-world context of Gulbarga city, India, thereby understanding the practicality of this index. The results show scope for alternative green cover, where ever the green index is low. This technique presents intra-city green cover pattern analysis. Such analysis emphasises to reserve the space for green in urban planning for well-being in totality. The aspect of Land Surface Temperature (LST) analysis and correlating the same with the amount of green cover further enhances the process of promoting green cities. The assessment of per capita green space with the standards of World Health Organisation (WHO) identified the scope of greenery initiatives in various parts of the city.

Stochastic energy storage capacity model of EV parking lots

Electric vehicles, EVs, provide temporary distributed energy storage capacity for the evolving distribution grid. An aggregated storage capacity of multiple EVs is more meaningful for a distribution grid. Commercial car parks at metropolitan cities and parking lots (PLs) of hospitals, shopping centres, universities etc. are the potential areas that can be organised for these purposes. This study presents a distributed storage capacity formulation of an EV PL that can be used in distribution system reliability improvement. The storage capacity was determined by sequential Monte-Carlo simulations. Real car arrival-departure data provided by the PL authority of Istanbul, technical parameters (SoC of the batteries, battery capacity of EVs, charging and discharging rates), and some side-specific probabilistic parameters (driver behaviour, mean transportation distance etc.) were used for realistic model development. Special attention was given to some critical time periods when the storage support was more crucial for the utility grid. Moreover, future expectations for city urban planning and for travel behaviour of the community were also included in the model. Finally, impacts of several important parameters on the storage capacity of the PL were determined through sensitivity analysis.

Heavy Metal Pollution in Settled Dust Associated with Different Urban Functional Areas in a Heavily Air-Polluted City in North China.

Understanding variations of heavy metals in atmospheric particles between different functional areas is significant for pollution control and urban planning in cities. To reveal pollution and spatial distribution of heavy metals in atmospheric particles from different urban functional areas in Shijiazhuang in North China, 43 settled dust samples were collected over the main urban area and heavy metal concentrations were determined in their <63 μm fractions using an ICP-OES. The results suggest that Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and V in the dust are not or slightly enriched and their concentrations vary slightly between different sites, implying their natural origins; whereas Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb are often notably enriched and their concentrations vary significantly between different functional areas, indicating their anthropogenic sources. Integrated pollution indexes (IPIs) of the ten heavy metals are 2.7–13.6 (5.7 ± 2.2), suggesting high or very high pollution levels of most dust. Relatively lower IPIs occur mainly in the administration-education area, the commercial area, and other unclassified sites; while peaks occur mainly in the North Railway Station, the northeastern industrial area, and some sites near heavily trafficked areas, implying the significant influence of intensive industrial (including coal combustion) and traffic activities on atmospheric heavy metal accumulation. These results suggest a clear need of mitigating atmospheric heavy metal pollution via controlling emissions of toxic metals (especially Cd and Pb) from industrial and traffic sources in the city.

Arquitectura para un carisma: carmelitas descalzos y tracistas de la Orden en España

The convent architecture of the Teresian Carmel developed over the centuries of the Early Modern Time (XVI-XVIII) was designed by friars of the Order, as brother Alberto de la Madre de Dios (1575-1635) or brother Alonso de San Jose (1600-1654). They used architectural models following the Carmelite charisma, regulations and purpose of the Order and under the assumptions of poverty, austerity, functionality and economy of means. Convents that were inserted into the existing urban planning of cities, and in some cases they even modified it, as the Discalced Carmelites complex of Pamplona (1640-1672) exemplifies. Buildings that through the distribution of space show the new style of life of Teresa, as the designs drawn in 1767 by brother Jose de San Juan de la Cruz for the Navarre nunnery of Lesaca reflect.

Planning in the era of Information and Communication Technologies. Discussing the “label: Smart” in South-European cities with environmental and socio-economic challenges

This paper presents lessons learnt through empirical research work developed in three metropolitan cities in South Italy aimed at exploring if and how the “Smart” framework might improve urban planning in cities with lacks in planning processes. Authors argue that organized networks of citizens (such as non-profit organizations or private associations) together with networks of institutions (such as partnerships amongst municipalities or universities) are needed in order to improve the smartness of a city; technologies are framed as opportunities and supports for more inclusive and informed decision-making processes, i.e. as a tool, rather than as a goal, for effective smartness. The paper discusses the primary findings of a Research Project conducted at the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (DICEA), University of Naples, titled “Smart Energy Master for the Energy Management of Territory” funded by EU.The methodology is based on the case-study method, whose sources of evidence are: quantitative indicators, archival documents, and excerpts from interviews with key stakeholders. In detail, the paper focuses on three Southern Italian cities (Reggio Calabria, Catania and Palermo), which have been clustered for similar challenges they have to face, in relation to their geographical proximity and cultural features. Findings show the twofold use of technologies for cities: on the one hand, technology may be perceived as a panacea and Smart initiatives may be isolated and episodic experiments; on the other, technologies may be critically incorporated in complex policies and initiatives aimed at regenerating urban areas holistically, and Smart initiatives may be coordinated and well-connected experiences. Authors argue that the second cases are feasible approaches for improving urban planning in challenging South-European contexts.

Building resilient and sustainable: a need to decompartementalise the researches

For several years now, building resilient and building sustainable are two of the main challenges of urban planning in cities. Though, both challenges are usually treated separately at the operational scale, which may imply antagonisms or synergies. From a review of the literature, this paper highlights the fact that there is a need to “decompartmentalise” researches on resilience and energy efficiency to provide integrated professional tools for the design of future urban developments, especially in flood zones. In order to improve both resilience and energy efficiency, it appears that networks are key elements.

Towards an unsustainable urban development in post‐war Sarajevo

Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is located in a karst geomorphological environment. The topographical setting strongly influences the urban geographical distribution and urban development, as well as the sustainability policies implemented in the city. The incorporation of an environmental agenda and the focus on sustainable development have characterised urban planning in cities in Central and Eastern Europe that are transitioning from socialist to capitalist economic systems. Environmental policies in Sarajevo are defined within the Sarajevo Canton Development Strategy developed under the supervision of international experts at the end of the three‐and‐a‐half years of siege in December 1995, and this is expected to last until 2015. This paper argues that, despite the consensus achieved for developing Sarajevo through strategies aligned with European regulations for sustainability, the built environment of the city has moved in an increasingly unsustainable direction as a result of the need to deal with vulnerable groups in the population and the international policies that tend to promote a neoliberal urban development. The first section of analysis focuses on Sarajevo's existing particular geomorphological constraints on the development of a secure and sustainable built environment. The second section examines the increase in the geomorphological risks of new construction developed after the conflict in relation to the post‐war and post‐socialist urban processes.

Architecture in Uzice from 1918 to 1941 - from architecture of historic styles towards modern

Modern architecture in southwest Serbia, in the mid and second half of 20th century, played a significant role in the reforming society. Thanks to its conception it has enabled local communities to overcome major differences in industry, manufacturing, culture, private life development, by not relying on local traditions and standards, by introducing universal canons it allowed flow of knowledge. Local communities at the time had a number of problems caused by industrial and educational lagging behind: lack of building materials was a consequence of poorly developed traffic network and construction industry, lack of vocational schools limited worker skill at construction site etc. All of the above directed the construction industry not to develop but to rely on local knowledge sources, local customs, and tradition. At that moment Modern architecture appeared with simple and condensed forms, modest demands on the industry and builders and with acceptance of local way of life. It was gradually introduced in everyday life so after 1945 it became the general standard in the society. This paper is based on available archive material, written material, and documents encountered in the field work. Implications of the study are expected in the area of urban planning of cities, economy, and culture.

‘Low carbon city development’ (LCCD) as a strategy for sustainable cities: The case of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract This article discusses how cities can contribute to climate change mitigation through an integrated approach involving low carbon development (LCD) as part of a city’s strategic planning. Cities have an opportunity to link climate change policies to local developmental priorities. They can engage in sustainable development and take leadership in climate change initiatives by considering a LCD approach in which municipalities take advantage of integrated planning that ensures that emissions reductions strategies and socio-economic growth are not mutually exclusive. This article features the Low Carbon City Development (LCCD) Programme developed by the World Bank and DNV KEMA Energy and Sustainability as a framework for the integration of LCD and climate change mitigation actions with respect to implementation of strategic urban planning in cities.

Resources and Energy Management: the case of the Agropoli Urban Plan

The theme of the resources management, of the energy-environment retrofitting framed in strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, aimed at energy saving, energy generating from alternative sources, metabolism and natural resources is one of the central topics the City Urban Planning of the City of Agropoli, currently approved by Resolution of the City Council no. 110 of 18.04.2013.The plan is part of the wider system of actions taken by the Municipality to achieve the objectives on the environment posed by the European Union with the Directive EP seals climate change package 20-20-20. In particular the planning tool provides a series of actions aimed at containing the uses energy through measures to rationalize, do not waste and reduce the use of non-renewable resources, by promoting best practices from the management of public assets, the use of innovative technologies in all sectors and activities; the diffusion of renewable energy production, with care to avoid impacts and interference with the historical landscape, including the promotion of programs and interventions of public management. The different strategic projects will take care of specific actions also for the experimental use of innovative technologies.The article proposes, within the framework of strategies and actions at the European level for small municipalities, the example of the City of Agropoli drawing conclusions and reflections on the theme of energy saving relative to the housing stock.

Território e Romanização no Império Romano: o Caso das Cidades Planejadas a Partir do Padrão Linear

Roma foi uma cidade que expandiu seu poder ao ponto de se tornar um grandeImpério da Idade Antiga. Suas táticas de territorialização eram executadas a partir das políticas de romanização, onde incluímos o domínio militar, a introdução dos costumes romanos -- como a religião, as tradições, entre outras -- usadas numa clara tentativa de transformar os povos sob o domínio de Roma em romanos. O presente artigo busca destacar a utilização da padronização da arquitetura e o planejamento urbanístico das cidades construídas ou reconstruídas por Roma como táticas de romanização, visto que essas possuíam papel fundamental na consolidação da estratégia de domínio romano. Dessa forma, pretendemos propor uma análise Histórico-geográfica do Império Romano -- aliando conceitos e métodos presentes nesses dois campos de conhecim ento -- na tentativa de contribuir para um maior diálogo entre a História e a Geografia.

Negotiating Public Spaces: A Conversation with Members of the STAG Project

The fight over Hong Kong space is one of utmost intensity, not only in everyday encounters. It is a leading point for many artistic practices and activist movements. Most public are taken over and strictly regulated by commmercial companies and government authorities while less and less space is left to individually run cafes shops, Or art studios. Swiss architects, researchers. and artists Geraldine Borio and Garoline Wuthrich from Hong Kong-based Parallel Lab are especially sensitive to the Lack of proper public in this metropolis and address the situation in their artistic research project STAG(2012), over the course several months, they invited people to reappropriate and see with fresh eyes what they Call the edge public spaces of Hong Kong, situate in between the densely packed skyscrapers of the island. During its first our events, the STAG project the name referring to a mutation of a stool phus a bag, invaded Hong Kong's narrow veins and pulled participant into their vibrant buzz. Happenings such as an evening movie screening, an afternoon tea ceremony, and a nighttime DJ show introduced people to Hong Kong's back alleys in poetic and organic ways. Finally, independent but in line with the previous events, the multimedia installation Voltae (2012) brought a different dimension to this experience in the remoteness and quietness of the gallery space. Facing a video loop of abstractions, one was deprived of seeing any image except pure computer-generated light contrasted by deep shadow. Drawn away from the familiar pictures and immersed instead into vivid acoustic data, one's sensorium was retuned to receive a fleeting, yet intimate and intensely present story of the city. As Borio and Wuthrich envision it, the cityscape on our metnal map melts to liquid and allows us to color those uncharted black spots. Borio and Wuthrich co-founded parallel Lab, an architectural and laboratory for urban experiments around Asia based in Hong Kong. Instead of concentrating on the big picture the cit they intensify the direct relationship between people and space by exploring the different modes of space appropriation around the world. Their artistic and research projects redistribute urban space on a micro-level by employing various media and designing plastic tools and mobile structures that are tuned to the specifics of he local cultures and thus engage people's sensitivity and immediate response. Besides their work at Parallel Lab Borio and Wuthrich are the Chinese University of Hong Kong respectively. NEVENA IVANOVA: Let us start with a short introduction to your creative process and points of inspiration. How did you choose your artistic strategies and the ways to intervene into Hong Kong's urban space? GERALDINE BORIO: Seven years ago we started with a similar project in Bangkok. It was our intention to interact with the city at a micro, human-oriented scale. Caroline and I met at the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne. Switzerland where we were each about to write a master's thesis, we both wanted to do something outside of Switzerland. We chose Bangkok because there was not enough research about its urban development. Unlike other Asian cities such as Tokyo or Beijing, it was a Fresh case with a lot of things to discover. Another reason is that Bangkok is a young city and fast developing, so one can observe in a short time the changes in its infrastructure. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CAROLINE WUTHRICH: The cities we choose to intervene in have a free form, apparently developing without urban planning cities with no beauty, with a certain mess, which nobody is interested to explore. What captures us in such places is the opportunity to observe with fresh contextual eyes. GB: Even the Thai or Hong Kong people don't really know how to represent their own cities. CW: This is also the key point in our original methodology. We take interest in cities with no written documents, so we go directly into the streets and observe. …

Enhancing quality of life through strategic urban planning

Abstract For decades the sole measure of progress has been the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, there has been a growing criticism for the dependence on standard of living as the only measure of well-being. Although the concept of quality of life has been in the development discourse for some time now, measuring it in a city is quite difficult as the aspects to be measured are still questionable. Moreover, the relative weight for each aspect can generate an endless debate. There are a number of indices claiming to measure and rate quality of life in different cities or countries. This paper reviews a number of leading indices in the field as efforts of various companies and organizations. It argues what aspects comprise good quality of life. It debates that different perspectives of the concept exist, giving more importance to subjective perspectives, especially when prioritizing actions or projects to enhance quality of life in a certain city. The paper studies strategic urban planning of cities as a tool to improve quality of life. It compares the main sectors addressed in the process to quality of life aspects. It then studies 2 cities in Egypt as case studies to review how stakeholders prioritize projects according to what contributes in improving their quality of life. The analysis shows the similarities and diversities of perspective in the Egyptian context.

ANALISE DO CAMPO TÉRMICO DA CIDADE DE IRATI/PR: PRIMEIROS EXPERIMENTOS PARA A DEFINIÇÃO DO CLIMA URBANO.

O presente trabalho trata do planejamento urbano de cidades de porte médio apequeno e, de forma particular, analisa a formação do campo térmico urbanocom base na análise climática. A cidade de Irati, localizada na porção centrosudestedo estado do Paraná, constitui-se no objeto deste estudo.Considerando-se o referencial teórico que trata sobre a temática, tanto noaspecto mais geral (planejamento urbano), como no específico (clima urbano),foi efetuado um levantamento preliminar das características essenciais do sítiourbano da cidade em questão. Após tal levantamento, foi possível escolherpontos de coletas de dados de temperatura para 12 locais diferentes, os quaisforam monitorados por acadêmicos do curso de Geografia da Unicentro, noperíodo de 23 a 30 de abril de 2008. As características físicas da cidadepermitiram concluir que a mesma apresenta um relevo ondulado e orientaçõesde vertentes variadas, não sendo possível definir um padrão uniforme. Por outrolado, as características socioeconômicas permitem afirmar que o adensamentourbano está concentrado na área central da cidade, com uma incipienteocupação nas áreas periféricas, pelo menos no que se refere aimpermeabilização do solo. Dessa forma, os 12 pontos escolhidos para coleta dedados possibilitaram a análise de diferentes realidades socioambientais dacidade, dando condições para se analisar a influência da dinâmica urbana navariação do campo térmico. As análises dos resultados e as conclusões obtidaspermitiram identificar a formação de ilhas de calor dentro da área de estudo;em princípio, a área mais quente está localizada na região central da cidade,mas, ao mesmo tempo no período noturno, se torna uma área semdiferenciação com o seu entorno e, até mesmo, apresentando valores detemperatura que induzem à formação de uma ilha de frescor. A influência daestrutura urbana na variabilidade espacial da temperatura do ar foi verificada, embora sobre ela paire dúvidas quanto à gênese, pois os fatores físicos (relevo,vegetação e água) parecem influenciar tanto quanto a estrutura urbana, na suaformação. Para uma maior segurança quanto à analise, novos experimentosdevem ser realizados, utilizando métodos e metodologias diferenciadas,procurando uma melhor explicação para a variação dos elementos climáticos nacidade de Irati.

Urban City Planning in the Eighth Century: A Case Study of Recent Excavations at Tel Gezer (Reading between the Lines: Uzziah's Expansion and Tel Gezer)

This article presents a case study in how archaeological data assists in biblical interpretation. The author uses the recent excavations of Tel Gezer, along with recent archaeological research on the Shephelah in the eighth century BCE to reconstruct the political and historical period of Uzziah. The first part of the article reviews the current excavations of Beth Shemesh and Tel es-Safi along with recent articles on the eighth-century destructions in the Shephelah. An overview of city-planning in the eighth century is provided. The second part of the article is a presentation of the results of the recently renewed excavations of Gezer (2006–2009). The author proposes that Judah experienced greater city-planning and regional development under King Uzziah than the latter period of Hezekiah.

The Destruction of Participation

This article describes a current dilemma of urban planning in cities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The process of demographic shrinking, and the increasing growth of the more privileged to suburbia since the early 1990s had dramatic consequences, especially on cities with large-scale settlements (Großsiedlungen) that once had been built especially for sites based on heavy industries. This paper argues that far from the banal, grey and depressing stigma attached to them at present, some of these housing projects, particularly the one for Leipzig-Grünau represented one of the most enthusiastic experiments to realise societal utopias. The study looks particularly at the role of residents' participation in the success and development of their estate. However, at the moment when buildings are being demolished public participation in determining the fate of their urban environment, seems futile and redundant. These often random and short-sighted demolitions undermine the housing estates' cohesiveness, which in turn helps to dilute the residents' sense of pride and privilege. It seems almost as though population ‘shrinking’ was part of a plan to re-appropriate the city by erasing the ‘unfamiliar’ fabric of a competing ideology. The paper investigates how this process is played out, what form it takes and how the configuration and coherence of the urban fabric is affected by a complicated sequence of chain reactions which degrade the attractiveness of the area to such a degree that demolition appears as the only possible solution. An intentional cultural-political policy of de-familiarisation takes place and demolition is made to appear all but unavoidable.

Vulnerability Maps for Reinforced Concrete Structures for Mexico City's Metropolitan Area under a Design Earthquake Scenario

This paper presents vulnerability maps for reinforced concrete moment frames (RCMFs) in Mexico City's Metropolitan Area (MCMA) for a Ms=8.1 earthquake scenario assessing peak nonlinear dynamic responses using the concept of displacement ductility demand spectra (DDDS). The considered earthquake scenario is the 1985 Michoacán Earthquake. Artificial and recorded ground motions were used. Takeda model was used to simulate nonlinear behavior of RCMFs. Seismic strength for existing RCMFs structures was estimated according to the nominal strength required by versions of Mexico's Federal District Code (MFDC) that were effective before the 1985 earthquake. Overstrength sources for RCMFs were also evaluated. With all of this information, DDDS were obtained for different sites in MCMA. Later, vulnerability maps based on contours of equal displacement ductility demands and nonlinear displacements for a given structural period and a version of MFDC were defined. These vulnerability maps were compared with the geographic area of severe structural damage and collapses mapped during the 1985 earthquake. Based on the results of this study, it is believed that this procedure can be useful to forecast demands for different structural systems for a given earthquake scenario, being therefore potentially useful for urban planning of cities located in zones of high seismic risk.