DUOT - Comunicación Congresos, Conferencias, ...https://hdl.handle.net/10481/183772024-03-29T15:31:23Z2024-03-29T15:31:23ZQuality social spaces in casual urban style: Traces and interstices and their ability to integrate peripheral areasRivas-Navarro, Juan L.Bravo Rodríguez, Belénhttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/458282021-06-15T13:00:13ZQuality social spaces in casual urban style: Traces and interstices and their ability to integrate peripheral areas
Rivas-Navarro, Juan L.; Bravo Rodríguez, Belén
In many cases, the periphery is an urban area generated by the addition of projects of individual initiative and a differentiated position, the sum of small residential systems of different types, scales and forms of dwelling in which gradually, the citizen finds his urban references. This is a process that is based on important features of geographical support as roads, plots, vegetation, crossroads, small farm buildings, etc. That act as a space - time window between the present metropolitan and the agricultural past. Social diversity reflects the multiple residential types, allows the citizen interaction in these areas, and increases the cultural richness and cohesion of these tissues now converted into neighborhoods. Interstices and traces give structure to a complex mesh of lines and dots, successful spaces of this fragmented city that help us to understand the urban development of periphery as a unique piece articulated with the rest of the city, and forms a system to harbor first level equipment. Through a case study, the southern district of the city of Granada (Spain), you can explore the various stages of formation of this district and deepen the cultural memory of the place, realizing the new role its urban project can begin play on the metropolitan scale.
Intensive agriculture vs. Tourism development: The need for integrated planning in the coast of eastern Granada (Spain)Rivas-Navarro, Juan L.Bravo Rodríguez, BelénCuriel-Sanz, Carolinahttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/458132021-06-15T13:00:10ZIntensive agriculture vs. Tourism development: The need for integrated planning in the coast of eastern Granada (Spain)
Rivas-Navarro, Juan L.; Bravo Rodríguez, Belén; Curiel-Sanz, Carolina
In urban development policies, the idea that a community increases its competitiveness through adding economic sectors to its increasingly efficient "offer' seems to have become consolidated. We refer, for example, to the consolidation of communication infrastructure, the implantation of all types of urban resources, the diversity of the commercial fabric, diversification in employment opportunities. We also focus on economic sectors like tourism, cultural heritage, research and higher education, regional and local governance, etc. However, many territories have demonstrated how specialization can also been conducive to development. They have identified singular sectors and have been able to spatially localize the strengths and enhance them in detriment to other interests often unaffiliated to the local inherited development.
The Spanish Mediterranean coast has been over-exploited since the 1960's motivated by the tourist industry- specifically the 'sun and sand' sector, which has produced an enormous real estate stock with a very seasonal occupancy. Among the negative effects of this exaggerated exploitation is deterioration of the landscape or the overexploitation of water resources. This model of occupation has generated a chaotic conurbation in the majority of the coast, with the exception of a few protected natural spaces.
The case of the province of Granada is paradigmatic. The lack of rail and road connections like the recent Mediterranean highway has resulted in a space of more than 50 kilometers of coast with atypical conditions that we might call ' pre-touristic', without massive real estate projects and a conserving considerable potential for change. However, we are not talking about a protected natural space but rather a territory where the large scale tourist sector decided not to operate. The necessity to exploit the hours of sun, the lack of rainfall and the absence of industrialization characteristic of Andalucía, caused this territory to consolidate in the last three decades in lo a type of intensive agriculture based on the greenhouse.
Cultivating crops under plastic has been considered incompatible with tourism by the planners and urban designers of this territory. lt is only now that the local authorities have become conscious of the necessity to diversify the economic sectors of local development and seek compatibility of both sectors in a sustainable and integrated plan.
Within the context of the Master of Urban Planning at the University of Granada, an research is carried out that attempts singularize this coastal range, beyond the indistinct vision of the 'Plan del litoral andaluz' (PPCLA). lt is a multidisciplinary experience based on the participation of the local agents and focuses on identifying project criteria, ordering and territorial sustainable development. We present here the advances in this work in progress that seeks to rethink the future of the territory by integrating land use, multi-temporality, and innovation in both the agricultural and tourist sectors, and to exploit the natural resources while making the most of the landscape as well as the emerging local economies.
Infrastructures for a more sustainable constructed environment. The conversion of the N340 roadway on the Costa Tropical of Granada (Spain)Bravo Rodríguez, BelénRivas-Navarro, Juan L.https://hdl.handle.net/10481/458122021-06-15T13:00:14ZInfrastructures for a more sustainable constructed environment. The conversion of the N340 roadway on the Costa Tropical of Granada (Spain)
Bravo Rodríguez, Belén; Rivas-Navarro, Juan L.
The coexistence of nature and artifice in metropolitan contexts is currently an important issue with many possibilities to think about. From the perspective of a transport infrastructure project this reflection should facilitate a methodological evolution, aimed at creating a new technology that understands design as a combination between the demands of citizens, and the spatial offer of the place. This is the case of the N340 roadway along the coast of the Granada province, a territory with a population of about one hundred thousand people that doubles in the summer. Besides tourism, intensive agriculture is the basis of economic development. However, the lack of both rail connection and through the 'Autovía del Mediterráneo' has allowed today a space of more than 50 kilometers of coastline with very different conditions we might call "pre-tourist", without massive urbanization and with a considerable potential for change. This infrastructure is channeling all movements by road of the so-called Costa Tropical with the concentration of the metropolitan, local and even regional flows, which leads to a high congestion, mono functionality, lack of permeability and barrier effect, among others. The completion of the 'Autovía del Mediterráneo' is opening up an amazing opportunity
to transform this axis that implies refocusing on the natural character of the coast and highlighting out its ability to pass through urban environments relationally and progressively.
Are we able to rehabilitate insufficient and aggressive urban infrastructures, converting them in to secondary ones in relation to other more powerful and recently built ones and giving them a conciliatory character? Research that derives from the Master of Urban Planning of Granada, explores the intermodal coexistence of pedestrian and vehicular mobility, the intensification of mass transit systems and interchanges, improving accessibility, incorporating the landscape as a structuring element of space through the visualization of distant territory and comprehension of the environmental network.
Amnesty city-countryside through the “riverscape”: Towards a more sustainable relationship between the urban Granada and its own landscapeRivas-Navarro, Juan L.Bravo Rodríguez, BelénJiménez-Quesada, Antoniohttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/458112021-06-15T13:00:13ZAmnesty city-countryside through the “riverscape”: Towards a more sustainable relationship between the urban Granada and its own landscape
Rivas-Navarro, Juan L.; Bravo Rodríguez, Belén; Jiménez-Quesada, Antonio
The new urban configurations contain an interesting mixture of land uses more or less active. They draw open pieces on a map where the natural geography and agricultural spaces are trapped. They are forms belonging to a time when the relationship city-countryside was clearer, and the coexistence between urban and agricultural functions easier. Nowadays, the agricultural tissue in the urban periphery is a common feature of the European cities (mainly in Mediterranean cities) and, in the case of Granada, the way as the city has been growing may be considered against the geographic and agricultural view of the territory. In this context, rivers are the natural link between urban and rural areas and their 'riverscape' become a field of possibilities for the implementation of new territorial functions. The revitalization of the Genil River along its more urban length must be based on the new territorial dynamics in response to the current social, cultural and economic demands.
The research studies the urban possibilities of this "natural corridor" and tries to demonstrate that in functional, spatial, and social terms, it has many more possibilities of intervention than the fact of being considered as a resulting product of non-rational processes of accumulation of borders, protections, etc. These new 'riverscapes' would lead to a programmatic and typological search in order to incorporate innovative facilities and new collective architectures.
As a result, it is possible to balance two fundamental tensions of the future project: responsibility for the history and inherited geography, and the sense for the occasion and the invention of a landscape deeply related, a way to create an interesting place to allow the temporary coexistence and the development of a more integrated territory.
Re-Thinking infrastructure project for the metropolis: Laboratory GranadaRivas-Navarro, Juan L.Bravo Rodríguez, Belénhttps://hdl.handle.net/10481/457612021-06-15T13:00:15ZRe-Thinking infrastructure project for the metropolis: Laboratory Granada
Rivas-Navarro, Juan L.; Bravo Rodríguez, Belén
Nowadays, urbanism must be able to reflect on the usefulness of certain infrastructure, transport infrastructure mainly, based on new policies for distribution of land uses. In the context of a new culture of sustainability and urban efficiency, this kind of urbanism seeks a reduction on the demand for mobility and expressly designed solutions. The coexistence of nature and artifice in metropolitan contexts is currently an important issue on which to re-think and to re-know its many possibilities. We could consider 'place' as 'urban and territorial material,' reinterpreting the quality of places. We could also look at it through the classical argument of 'points + lines + spots' inherited from landscape ecology. These and other methods are useful for understanding the urban fabric. They provide new meaning to the fabrics’ intrinsic values thanks to the presence of infrastructure. From the perspective of the transport infrastructure project, this reflection should facilitate a methodological evolution aimed at creating a new technology that understands design as a negotiation between citizen demands and spatial offer of 'place'. This technology would overcome the theoretical distance that exists between the perspective of the city as an autonomous compact entity and the 'splintered' present day metropolitan reality, defined by more open lexical and combinatory systems overlapping with conflict. Thus, now more than ever, extending the mechanisms of a creative project; transforming some spatial concepts into instruments such as outline, crossing or section, fusing landscapes, hybridizing functions, or adding different times of the territory, etc., are also technological keys, for the integration of large scale infrastructure.
First International Academic Conference on Places and Technologies, Belgrade, 3-4 April, 2014.