Intervention follows diagnosis: analysis’ impact on open space regeneration in mass housing estates

Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Sergio García-Pérez, Javier Monclús, Carmen Díez Medina
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/96
Language English Pages 12 P. 147-158 File size 1029 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2021-096014
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

Diagnosis and design are part of the same process. This statement is particularly true for urban regeneration efforts, in which the way that complex obsolescence processes are understood implies a particular design method. In the specific case of the regeneration of mass housing estates, most experiences are approached from the building perspective. Even though open spaces are central to ensuring a high degree of urban quality, urban regeneration projects often fail to recognise the problems and opportunities relating to their layout. The aim of this paper is to discuss the relevance of incorporating pertinent open space diagnoses into integrated urban regeneration efforts in mass housing estates. To this end, the paper explores in depth three different experiences of urban regeneration in Spain.

Keywords: integrated urban regeneration; public space; urban analysis

  1. United Nations, 2015, «Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development». Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly. New York: United Nations General Assembly.
  2. Urban Task Force, 1999, Towards an urban renaissance. London: Spon Press.
  3. Van Es E., Harbusch G., Maurer B., Pérez M., Somer K., Weiss D., eds., 2015, Atlas of the functional city. ciam 4 and comparative urban analysis. Bussum-Zurich: thoth Publishers/gta Verlag. Velázquez Valoria I., Verdaguer Viana-Cárdenas C., 2011, Regeneración urbana integral. Tres experiencias europeas innovadoras: Île de Nantes, Coin Street y Barrio de la Mina. Madrid: Sepes. Entidad Estatal de Suelo.
  4. Wassenberg F., 2013, Large housing estates: Ideas, rise, fall and recovery. The Bijlmermeer and beyond. Amsterdam: IOS Press - Delft University Press.
  5. anru, 2012, «Angence Nationale pour la Rénovation Urbaine». -- www.anru.fr/fre/ANRU .
  6. Aquilué Junyent I., Roca Blanch E., 2019, «Bijlmermeer, cambio e hibridación en la ciudad del futuro». zarch, 12: 210-223.
  7. Arroyo Castillo A., 2010, «San Cristóbal de los Ángeles. Un caso singular ». In: 10o Congreso Nacional de Medio Ambiente. Madrid: Conama. Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, 2011, Barracas: la Barcelona informal del siglo XX (M. Tatjer Mir, C. Larrea Killinger, eds.). Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona.
  8. Carmona M., 2019, «Principles for public space design, planning to do better». Urban Design International, 24, 1: 47-59.
  9. Castrillo M., 2010, «El urbanismo de renovación de grandes conjuntos de vivienda social en Francia, 2004-2008». Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura, 2: 54–67.
  10. Cervero Sánchez N., Agustín Hernández L., 2015, «Remodelación, transformación y rehabilitación. Tres formas de intervenir en la vivienda social del siglo xx / Urban Remodeling, Transformation and Renovation. Three ways of intervening on twentieth century Social Housing». Informes de La Construcción, 67(Extra-1): m026.
  11. Consorci del Barri de La Mina, 2008, Pla de Transformació del barri de La Mina. Memòria d’actuacions. Sant Adriá del Besós.
  12. Cortés Alcalá L., 2004, «Spain. High-rise as urban phenomenon». In: Turkington R., van Kempen R., Wassenberg F. (eds.), High-rise housing in Europe. Current trends and future prospects. Delft: Delft University Press, 87-98.
  13. Delclòs-Alió X., Miralles-Guasch C., 2018, «Looking at Barcelona through Jane Jacobs’s eyes: Mapping the basic conditions for urban vitality in a Mediterranean conurbation». Land Use Policy, 75: 505-517.
  14. Díez de Pablo A., 2015, La vivienda social como patrimonio urbano. Análisis de la patrimonialización de tres barrios de promoción oficial madrileños. PhD thesis (supervised by L. Moya). E.T.S. Arquitectura (upm), Madrid.
  15. Díez Medina C., ed., 2015, «El legado de la vivienda moderna / Modernist Mass Housing Legacy». zarch: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, 5.
  16. Druot F., Lacaton A., Vassal J.P., 2007, Plus. La vivienda colectiva. Territorio de excepción. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili.
  17. eu Ministers for Urban Development, 2007, «Leipzig charter on sustainable european cities». Leipzig.
  18. Ferrer i Aixalá A., 1996, Els polígons de Barcelona. Barcelona: Ediciones upc.
  19. García-Pérez S., 2017, «Urban design and public space in integrated urban regeneration contexts: Concepts, institutional framework, and recent experiences». zarch: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, 8, 8: 214.
  20. García-Pérez S., Oliveira V., Monclús J., Díez Medina C., 2020, «UR-Hesp: A methodological approach for a diagnosis on the quality of open spaces in mass housing estates». Cities, 103: 102657.
  21. García Vázquez C., Pico Valimaña R., Sendra Salas J.J., Valero Ramos E., 2016, Intervención en barriadas residenciales obsoletas. Manual de buenas prácticas. Madrid: Abada.
  22. Geddes P., 1915, Cities in Evolution. An introduction to the town planning movement and to the study of civics. London: Williams.
  23. Gehl J., Kaefer L.J., Reigstad S., 2006, «Close encounters with buildings». Urban Design International, 11, 1: 29-47.
  24. González González F.J., Stouten P., 2014, «Purper en Amber, Poptahof, Delft». Ciudad y Territorio, Estudios Territoriales, xlvi(179): 175-181.
  25. Hall P., 1997, «Regeneration Policies for Peripheral Housing Estates: Inward- and Outward-looking Approaches». Urban Studies, 34, 5-6: 873-890. DOI: 10.1080/0042098975862
  26. Helleman G., Wassenberg F., 2004, «The renewal of what was tomorrow’s idealistic city. Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer high-rise». Cities, 21, 1: 3-17.
  27. Jacobs J., 1961, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage Books.
  28. Jornet S., Llop C., Pastor J.E., 2008, «El Plan Especial de transformación urbana del barrio de La Mina, Barcelona, Premio Nacional de Urbanismo ». Urban, 13: 166-169.
  29. Lepratto F., 2017, Bricolage urbano. Strumenti per trasformare la residenza del grande numero. PhD thesis (supervised by O.S. Pierini and L. Montedoro). Politecnico di Milano, Milan.
  30. López de Lucio R., 2008, «La Rehabilitación de la ciudad existente. El Plan Especial de reforma y reordenación del barrio de La Mina y
  31. documentos complementarios 2000-2006». In: Ordenar el territorio,
  32. proyectar la ciudad, rehabilitar los tejidos existentes. La relevancia
  33. del planeamiento a través de los premios nacionales de urbanismo.
  34. Madrid: Ministerio de la Vivienda, Secretaría General Técnica, Centro de Publicaciones, 121-165.
  35. López de Lucio R., Ardura Urquiaga Á., Bataller Enguix J.J., Tejera Parra J., 2016, Madrid, 1900-2010: guía de urbanismo y diseño urbano /urbanism & urban design guide. Madrid: Área de Gobierno de Desarrollo Urbano Sostenible, Departamento de Difusión y Cooperación Institucional.
  36. Mata Wagner J., 2008, «Experiencia: el barrio de San Cristóbal (Madrid)». In: Jornadas de Revitalización Urbana del Picarral. Por un barrio más habitable Zaragoza: Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Vivienda, 24-28.
  37. Monclús J., 2018, «Urban Renewal and Urban Regeneration». In: Díez
  38. Medina C., Monclús J. (eds.), Urban Visions. Cham: Springer, 123-132.
  39. Monclús J., Díez Medina C., 2016, «ciam Urbanism revisited. Modernist
  40. Mass Housing Estates in Spain: Best, Good, Standard, Poor (BGSP)». In: Tostoes A., Ferreira Z. (eds.), Adaptive reuse. The Modern Movement towards the future, 14th International conference proceedings. Lisboa: Docomomo internacional - Casa da Arquitectura, 779-789.
  41. Moya González L., 1983, Barrios de promoción oficial. Madrid, 1939-1976.
  42. Madrid: Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid.
  43. Moya González L., Díez de Pablo A., 2012, «La intervención en la ciudad construida: acepciones terminológicas». Urban, NS04: 113-123.
  44. Musterd S., Ronald V.K., van Kempen R., 2007, «Trapped or on the Springboard? Housing Careers in Large Housing Estates in European Cities». Journal of Urban Affairs, 29, 3: 311–329.
  45. Newman O., 1972, Defensible Space: Crime Prevention through Urban Design. New York: Macmillan.
  46. oma, 1986, «Bijlmermeer redevelopment». -- http://oma.eu/projects/bijlmermeer-redevelopment.
  47. Palmbout Urban Landscapes, 2004, «Delf Poptahof». http://palmbout.nl Pendlebury J.R., Townshend T., Gilroy R., 2009, «Social housing as heritage: The case of Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne». In: Gibson L., Pendlebury J.R. (eds.), Valuing historic environments. Farnham: Ashgate, 179-200.
  48. Pérez-Igualada J., 2017, «La idea de supermanzana en los polígonos de viviendas de Valencia (1956-1971) | The idea of superblock in modernist housing estates of Valencia (1956-1971)». zarch: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, 8: 132–143.
  49. Rowlands R., Musterd S., van Kempen R., eds., 2009, Mass Housing in Europe: Multiple Faces of Development, Change and Response. London: Palgrave Macmillan uk.
  50. Ruiz Palomeque G., Rubio del Val J., 2006, Nuevas propuestas de rehabilitación urbana en Zaragoza. Estudio de Conjuntos Urbanos de Interés. Zaragoza: Sociedad Municipal Zaragoza Vivienda. Sendi R., Aalbers M., Trigueiro M., 2009, «Public Space in Large Housing Estates». In: Rowlands R., Musterd S., van Kempen R. (eds.), Mass Housing in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 131–156.
  51. Sendra P., 2016, «Infrastructures for disorder. Applying Sennett’s notion of disorder to the public space of social housing neighbourhoods ». Journal of Urban Design, 21, 3: 335–352. DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2015.1133223
  52. Sotoca A., 2012, After the Project. Updating Mass Housing Estates. Barcelona: Ediciones upc.
  53. Strappa G., 2018, «Reading the Built Environment as a Design Method».
  54. In: Oliveira, V. (ed.), Teaching Urban Morphology. Cham: Springer, 159-184.
  55. Turkington R., van Kempen R., Wassenberg F., eds., 2004, High-rise housing in Europe: Current trends and future prospects. Delft: Delft University Press.
  56. un-Habitat, 2008, «Building our District. Integrated Actions in the Framework of Community Development in San Cristóbal de los Ángeles (Madrid)». In: un-habitat Best Practices Database. -- http://mirror.unhabitat.org/bp/bp.list.details.aspx?bp_id=1186.
  57. un-Habitat, 2010a, «Municipal Program of the Refurbishment of the Urban Sets of Buildings built between 1945-1965, Zaragoza, Spain, Europe». In: un-habitat Best Practices Database. http://mirror.unhabitat.org/bp/bp.list.details.aspx?bp_id=849. un-Habitat, 2010b, «Transformation Plan of La Mina neighbourhood».
  58. In: un-habitat Best Practices Database. http://mirror.unhabitat.org/bp/bp.list.details.aspx?bp_id=1120.
  59. un-Habitat, 2015, Global Public Space Toolkit. From Global Principles to Local Policies and Practice. Nairobi: un-habitat.
  60. un-Habitat, 2018, «Dubai International Award For Best Practice». http://mirror.unhabitat.org/bp/bp.list.aspx.
  61. Docomomo International, 2018, «International committe for documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement». -- www.docomomo.com.
  62. Díez Medina C., Monclús J., 2020, La ciudad de bloques. Reflexiones retrospectivas y prospectivas sobre los polígonos de vivienda ‘modernos’. Madrid: Abada Editores.

Sergio García-Pérez, Javier Monclús, Carmen Díez Medina, Intervention follows diagnosis: analysis’ impact on open space regeneration in mass housing estates in "TERRITORIO" 96/2021, pp 147-158, DOI: 10.3280/TR2021-096014