Keywords
technological reconversion
information and communication technology
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Abstract
Contemporary city is shaped territorial and functionally, pursuing competitive and economicconditions to being successfully integrated in a regional context; such process iscompleted with urban policies characterized for extending communication infrastructure,transport and ameliorating urban conditions. Nevertheless, competitive urban transformationbrings inherent increasing consumption patterns, including extensive automobileuse and also information and communication technology. Both cases are partially responsiblefor actual energy consumption and consequently, for the greenhouse gas effect. Theaim of this paper is discussing the urbanization as a relevant factor in the global environmentalimpacts, because of technology reconversion, intensive vehicles use and territoryrestructuration. Such analyses process is useful for understanding actual environmentalcrises and also, for searching another energy sources or urban strategies considered harmfulnessbut also, for mitigating the increasing social and economic vulnerabilityThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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