How to transform a town on sustainable, ecological and smart? Zaragoza draws a new Urban Plan It is 2021 and, with this plan, he faces the big challenges of a 21st century city, also marked by the pandemic. It has been in the Zaragoza Chamber of Commerce, under the title “The city thought: Zaragoza, Urbanism of the XXI century”.
The city is thought, lived and shared since many points of view: how I know feeds, how I know move, How will to work already study, as buys, as walk, as breathe, as pollutes or as stop polluting. The pandemic has also changed the way cities and communities think about neighbours looking for more health, more space and more savings. And here the European Regeneration plans they are key.
Summary of the interventions of the Councilor for Urbanism, Víctor Serrano, in the SER Meeting “The thought city: Zaragoza, Urbanism of the XXI century”, broadcast online from the Chamber of Commerce / Cadena SER
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How can they be realized? Belinda López Mesa, from the Department of Housing at the University of Zaragoza, gave some clues. “One of the objectives is that, that energy that we contribute to the buildings does not go away so easily and that is reduce energy demand“, has explained.
And he added that “the other thing to do is have some much more efficient facilities and of energies fundamentally renewable, that is to say, that the energy that we contribute is the least polluting for the environment “.
– Discussion table, with Juan Carlos Bandrés, president of the Zaragoza Construction Companies Federation, Belinda López Mesa, Housing Chair at the University of Zaragoza, and Eduardo Aragüés, architect and partner of IDOM / Cadena SER
An example for these European plans, to which lack of concretion, is he Balsas de Ebro Viejo pilot project, which can be exported to other areas of the city.
By the way, that next Monday takes the Zaragoza Housing Board of Directors the Housing Rehabilitation Plan, which unifies two years: 2021 – 2022, as indicated in the manager of Zaragoza Housing, Chema Ruiz de Temiño.
Intervention by Zoom de Ibón Areso, architect and former mayor of Bilbao / Cadena SER
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The ‘superblocks’
The Councilor for Urban Planning of the Zaragoza City Council, Víctor Serrano, has recognized that consensus must be sought for the implantation of the ‘superblocks’ in Zaragoza, which aim to improve quality of life and health of citizens but, he has assured, that he has encountered a frontal opposition to an urban solution what it works in many cities.
“I thought it was a much more mature idea and, nevertheless, I have encountered a more frontal opposition,” said Serrano, but “I think let’s keep moving forward and I believe that together we will be able to realize that today urbanize according to the criteria of a emissions neutral mobility and relocating the car (do not delete it), it is win in well-being, in health and it is an improvement concept “.
The manager of Zaragoza Vivienda, Chema Ruiz de Temiño, during his speech at the SER Meeting on urban planning in Zaragoza / Cadena SER
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In this forum it has also agreed that Zaragoza City Council intervenes in the common spaces located between union housing.
With the title “The city thought: Zaragoza, Urbanism of the XXI century”, this Meeting of Cadena SER has also raised the new urban design, changes in mobility, the rehabilitation Y conservation of buildings, the responsible consumption of electricity and water, the configuration of green areas, the building o la Comercial activity.
In this forum they have also intervened Eduardo Aragüés, architect and partner of IDOM O Juan Carlos Bandrés, president of the Federation of Construction Companies of Zaragoza, who have contributed their views on how the city of Zaragoza is changing and the answers that urban planning can give.
In addition, the former mayor of Bilbao (and also an architect), Ibón Areso, which has explained the keys to the transformation of this city in recent years, such as the arrival of Guggenheim museum.
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