University-company-community relationship in the urban planning study plans

Abstract

The teaching of urbanism in the civil engineering career has taken force at present, due to the impact of climate change and the population exodus from the fields to the city. This reality must be confronted from the institutional and academic perspective with multidisciplinary, multifunctional and participatory perspectives, considering the community as the space where reality is transformed. With the university-company-community integration, a higher quality of urban planning teaching will be achieved so that students acquire the necessary knowledge to face urban projects from the needs of the community and through the entrepreneurial potentials that each region possesses. In this sense, the objective was to demonstrate the relevance of the teaching of urbanism from social-technological-academic relations as a process aimed at meeting social needs. The methodology consisted of a bibliographic and documentary review, which resulted in the determination of regularities and trends of the university-company-community relationship, its components and the several relationships that arise between them. It is concluded that the university-company-community relationship is a harmonious process that is a vital part of the training of the contemporary civil engineer committed to social problems from the academic-research.