Aprendiendo de Valladolid:

un camino posible hacia la

resiliencia urbana

Juan Luis de las Rivas

Contenidos:

1. Sostenibilidad como calidad de

vida. Resiliencia en la ciudad región (paisaje).

2. La ciudad que cambia Valladolid, de la ciudad-región al ‘modelo’

urbano.

3. Re-imaginar la estructura urbana Una relectura de los (sub-) sistemas

urbanos

4. Resiliencia y regeneración urbana. Ciudad de agua. Argumentos de

resistencia urbana.

Gotham City becomes real… The Dark Knight, 2006

¿Ciudad sostenible? Oxímoron… entre Gotham y el País de las Maravillas 0

Sustainability by design: a new urban culture

from technologies to public spaces…

integrated urban development (see „Leipzig Charter on Sustainable

European Cities‟, 2007)

Re-thinking all urban scales London Olimpic Legacy Masterplan framework

¿Es la sostenibilidad una nueva utopía?

Fuller Dome

Ecolonia, Holanda, L.Kroll 1987-93

Eden Project , Cornualles (GB) 2001

“Se puede analizar el pasado, pero hay que diseñar el futuro” Edward De Bono, en “¡Piensa! Antes de que sea demasiado tarde”, 2011

“No hay utopías a la vuelta de la esquina” Lord Anthony Giddens, entrevista en ABC, 3 de Noviembre de 2013

Manhattan Dome

Buckminster Fuller, 1960

Sostenibilidad como calidad de vida. Resiliencia en la ciudad región (¿otro paisaje?).

Laredo y Sanjenjo en „Paisajes Perdidos‟, Pedro Bator (2009)

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Vancouver‟s Greenest

City Action Plan, 2009

In „The New Science of Cities‟, Michael

Batty (MIT Press 2013) suggests that

to understand cities we must view them

not simply as places in space but as

systems of networks and flows…

Sustainability as Quality of Life

En “Ensuring quality of life in Europe's cities and towns”, EEA-UE, 2009

Planning with ecological thinking

The invention of a new methodology:

Suitability analysis, overlay mapping, impact

assessment...

“Our eyes do not divide us from the world, but unite

us with it. Let this be known to be true. Let us then

abandon the simplicity of separation and give unity

its due. Let us abandon the self mutilation which

has been our way and give expression to the

potential harmony of man-nature. The world is

abundant, we require only a deference born of

understanding to fulfill man's promise. Man is that

uniquely conscious creature who can perceive and

express. He must become the steward of the

biosphere. To do this he must design with

nature."

Ian L. McHarg (1920-2001), „Desig with Nature‟,

1969.

-Forman, R.T.T. and M. Godron. 1986. Landscape Ecology. John Wiley and Sons,

Inc., New York, NY, USA.

-Forman, R.T.T. 1995. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

Landscape Ecology

Principles, relationships:

Biodiversity

Elements:

Patches, niches, zones…

Boundaries, limits, buffers…

Corridors, connectivity…

Mosaics, networks, patterns

Richard Florida, 2002

“The rise of the Creative Class”

Michael Porter, 2008

“On Competition”

Place, people, economy…

COMMUNITY PLANNING

Papel de nuevos sectores productivos en la regeneración urbana (2), en ciudades muy dinámicas,

como Londres, San Francisco, Vancouver… emergencia de clusters locales de innovación (una

tendencia urbana clásica, de origen gremial, los competidores trabajan cerca, compartiendo

espacio y conocimiento …

“The new economy of inner city” (Thomas A. Hutton, 2010),

2 La ciudad que cambia Valladolid, de la ciudad-región al ‘modelo’ urbano

Francesco Indovina, “La metropolización

del territorio” :

“Può valere la pena di interrogarsi se

questa tendenza alla metropolizzazione del

territorio non possa costituire una risposta

ad alcune sfide che la situazione actuale

pone. In particolare quella derivante dalla

globalizzazione e dalla nuova divisione

internazionale del lavoro e quella qui

discende dalla necessità di attivare forme

di sviluppo sostenibile. In sostanza il nuovo

mosaico metropolitano costituisce, non

importa se consapevolmente o meno, un

contributo per dare risposte positive a

questi problemi?”

See “La explosión de la ciudad”, Antonio Font, Francesco

Indovina y Nuno Portas, Forum de las Culturas, Barcelona

2004.

2001 2006 2011

Valladolid 318.293 319.943 313.437

Suburban area 58.357 (+15,5%) 77.928 (+19,6%) 100.168 (24,2%)

Valladolid & Suburb 376.650 397.871 413.605

Recent demographic trends 2001 -2011

(Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, 2011)

The compact city and the sprawled outskirts

413.605 inhab. in a complex rural-urban

system

The metropolitan area

POPULATION CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL CITY AND IN THE URBAN AREA

Source: INE, Censos y Padrón de Población 2012

DOTVaEnt

DIRECTRICES DE ORDENACIÓN DEL TERRITORIO DE VALLADOLID

Y ENTORNO

Only the protective system becomes

compulsory

Valladolid and its urban area: Centralities and poles (Source: Instituto Universitario de Urbanística)

Managing urban interfaces

Advanced services

Retail

Central functions coming outside:

Centralities and Poles

Parque tecnologico de Boecillo (Source: El Día de Valladolid, 2013)

RioShopping (Source: Instituto Universitario de Urbanística, 2013)

Rural and natural landscapes

Local planning adapt to the regional

planning instrument

3 Re-imaginar la estructura urbana Una re-lectura de los (sub-) sistemas urbanos

It is possible to improve and adapt the representation of urban structure

Urban Structure like city physical support . Source of meaning... formal, functional and

symbolic.

Interurban networks, functional

interactions, landscapes, urban and

rural areas… a deeper understanding

of territory

1)The Regional Landscape

2)The complexity of Urban Area

3) New and old neighborhoods

4)Their interferences

Understanding middle territories

In an emergent metropolitan area

A new geography / ecology of

the City-Region

Land uses Mosaic. Urban changes, Valladolid Sur

2012

1998

Urban patterns Select and describe typologies of repetitive urban situations

Mobility Flows, Fractures, Barriers, Doors

Open spaces Nature / Landscape, Corridors,

Continuities/Fragments

Central places Built environment, Well-served

and equipped

City, Neighborhoods & urban

centrality structure

Urban structure as a source of

meaning

Combining three urban

systems

1. Mobility and access

Qualities, street

features…

Densities, transport

needs, future „City Gates‟

program and tram

alternatives…

Alternative reading

2. Centers and Neighborhoods catalog of services, “urban units”, etc

Combining existing issues

and new opportunities

Historical Center,

new centralities –poles,

corridors, specialized

areas…-,

main equipment zones,

urban regeneration zones…

Alternative reading

3. Nature and open spaces

Ecological framework. Open spaces

Interactions between city and environment

Alternative

reading

Mixing figures: re-imagining urban structure

Hypothesis: new conceptual matrix, game of scales, territorial relationships

4 Resiliencia y regeneración urbana Ciudad de agua. Argumentos de resistencia urbana

Madrid

Valladolid

AVe 2007

High Speed Train

Madrid-Valladolid: 1 hour

“plan Rogers” „Modificación del Plan General de

Ordenación Urbana de la Red Ferroviaria

Central de Valladolid‟

Richard Rogers and Partners, 2010

The big project as urban

solution?

Lockheed Martin &1000 companies. R+D Program: 65.000 Millions US$. 170/180 Units

¿El problema es lo que cuesta?... F-22 Raptor

Valladolid-Palencia Corridor

Land uses along the Pisuerga Valley

Urban regeneration is not

only a question of urban

projects, it must involve the

vision of the city region as

a whole

Pisuerga Industrial Corridor

420.000 inhab. in a

complex rural-

urban system

In the inner city,

310.000 people, in

the outskirts,

110.000...

Alternative reading

Urban faces and interfaces

River-fronts and

canals like the

argument for

urban

regeneration