El plan urbano de Medellín se centra en responder cómo la planificación urbana puede mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas. Al desarrollar su propuesta, la ciudad está potenciando los beneficios sociales que estas prácticas urbanísticas pueden generar. Medellín hace énfasis en la utilización de sus condiciones naturales y...

Medellín's urban plan focuses on answering how urban planning can improve people's quality of life. By developing its proposal, the city is promoting the social benefits that these urban planning practices can generate. Medellín emphasizes the use of natural and environmental conditions, such as valleys, streams, rivers, mountains, and hills,...

Cities are dense, built spaces in which pavements have been efficiently imposed on the natural soil. Cities like Barcelona have almost 75% of the land paved and waterproof. Without a doubt, it is an excess to reverse at a time of climate emergency, where we must reconnect with nature. Oriol...

There is currently a broad consensus on the importance of public space in the city. Although it may seem quite logical, its significance is not as old as human settlements, which have existed for millennia. The Athens Charter, written just 91 years ago, did not speak so much about the...

When we consider writing a scientifically sound article, we often find ourselves in the position of avoiding anecdotes or simply recounting experiences that have marked us personally in some way. Conversely, and perhaps without realizing it, what leads us to offer a plausible thesis does not de facto rule out...

The concept of sustainability applied to the city is on the way to obsolescence. We have coined this term for almost everything we want to do, thus giving it an apparent air of respect for what we call nature. However, the true impact is achieved when we transcend this idea...

Over the last few decades, urban regeneration projects have proliferated around the world, focusing on river and coastal areas adjacent to urbanized areas that were often immersed in an ostensible marginality. The driving idea behind these projects has been to rediscover water in the city....

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There are currently 4 superblocks being built in Barcelona; three of them are “urban superblocks” and the last one is still a “functional superblock”. The first superblock was implemented in the La Ribera neighbourhood (el Born / Santa María del Mar) in 1993....