Urban Regeneration. A challenge for Public Art [1999]. Edition 2005

Urban Regeneration. A challenge for Public Art, supposed the start of a trend of critical thought related to the topics of Public Art, Urban Regeneration and Urban Design. This trend agglutinated around the Public Art Observatory that, still today, develops its activities.The book gathers a series of critical proposals organized in the chapters " Art and Design in/for Public Space ", " Forms and Representations of Public Art/Public Space. The Producer/User Dilemma " and " Public Art / Cities in Competition: Strategies, Bridges and Gateways ", with the participation of, among others, Sergi Valera, Ray Smith, Martí Peran, Ian Rawlinson, Chaké Matosian, Enric Pol, J. Hyatt, J. Gingell or T. Bovaird.

Vanishing Clams on an iberian beach: local consequences and global implication of accelerating loss of shells to tourism

Multi-decadal increase in shell removal by tourists, a process that may accelerate degradation of natural habitats, was quantified via two series of monthly surveys, conducted thirty years apart (1978-1981 and 2008-2010) in one small embayment on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Over the last three decades, the local tourist arrivals have increased almost three-fold (2.74), while the area has remained unaffected by urban encroachment and commercial fisheries. Concomitantly, abundance of mollusk shells along the shoreline decreased almost three-fold (2.62) and displayed a tight inverse correlation with tourist arrivals. A four-fold increase in tourist arrivals observed globally over the last 30 years has likely induced a comparable worldwide acceleration in shell removal from marine shorelines and exerted multiple negative (but currently unquantifiable) habitat changes that may include increased beach erosion, changes in carbon and calcium cycles, and decline in diversity and abundance of organisms dependent on shell availability.

La integración del ferrocarril de alta velocidad en el medio urbano. El caso de Segovia-Guiomar

La llegada del tren de alta velocidad genera oportunidades de dinamización que deben de ser ante todo concretadas a escala local. Los lugares suelen reaccionar desplegando medidas de planificación y gestión para garantizar la mejor integración de la nueva infraestructura, procurar su coherencia con el modelo territorial y el mejor aprovechamiento de la accesibilidad que genera el nuevo tren. En este artículo se estudian las medidas desarrolladas en Segovia a raíz de la implantación del tren de alta velocidad con una estación localizada en la periferia, por lo que tuvieron que desplegarse un buen número de acciones de planificación territorial y gestión de la movilidad. A través del planeamiento municipal se trata de integrar la estación y su entorno al conjunto urbano, con el desarrollo de suelo urbanizable y nueva infraestructura viaria. La gestión de la movilidad pasa inicialmente por la articulación de la estación con el centro urbano a través de servicios de autobuses coordinados con los horarios de los trenes.

Is the influence of quality of life on urban growth non-stationary in space? A case study of Barcelona

There are several determinants that influence household location decisions. More concretely, recent economic literature assigns an increasingly important role to the variables governing quality of life. Nevertheless, the spatial stationarity of the parameters is implicitly assumed in most studies. Here we analyse the role of quality of life in urban economics and test for the spatial stationarity of the relationship between city growth and quality of life.

The Paralympic Village: a barrier-free city

Article describing the design standards and their use for Paralympic facilities. This article was published in the book entitled Olympic Villages: a hundred years of urban planning and shared experiences compiling the papers given at the 1997 International Symposium on International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB).