Heritage Recognition of Mass Housing Neighbourhoods in Spain. Urban Planning as an Instrument of Protection

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.19.55.12443

Keywords:

residencial neighbourhoods, urban catalogue, contemporary heritage, heritage protection

Abstract

The initial aim of this article is to evaluate the degree of recognition and legal protection given to mass housing neighbourhoods built mainly in the second half of the 20th century in Spain. Even though this is one of the historical periods of greatest urban growth, it presents a level of protection that is clearly lower than previous residential developments. The research takes as its starting point the architectural records of the 20th century, in order to place special emphasis on the protection possibilities offered by urban planning. To this end, the research focuses on three case studies: Madrid, Zaragoza, and Malaga. The ultimate aim is to get a glimpse of the potential of urban planning to overcome the difficulties usually associated with heritage protection, as well as introduce new conceptual approaches. The paper concludes by emphasising the power of urban planning instruments in the conservation of the inherited city, especially in the case of residential neighbourhoods characterised by strong processes of obsolescence. Compared to the protection figures of state or regional legislation, given the obligations and burdens they entail, urban cataloguing offers a greater degree of adaptation to the particularities of each case and, consequently, allows more effective protection to be articulated from contemporary approaches.

Author Biographies

Daniel Navas-Carrillo, University of Málaga

Assistant Professor. Doctor in Architecture, MSc in Innovation in Architecture and MSc in Heritage and Architecture. Member of the research group Heritage and Urban Development in Andalusia, and the Research Institute of Architecture and Construction Sciences. His research focuses on the analyses of the urban growth experienced in the third quarter of the 20th century in medium-sized cities from a heritage perspective. His research is built from a comparative analysis of an international nature with stays in ULisboa and TUDelft. He has carried out management tasks as Vice Secretary of the ETSA of Malaga (2022-2024), Deputy to the Subdirectorate of Own Plans and Entrepreneurship of the ETSA of Seville (2017-2022) and Member of the evaluation panels of the ACREDITA Program of ANECA (2021). -2022). He is currently Deputy Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies and Teaching at the University of Malaga.

Juan-Andrés Rodríguez-Lora, University of Seville

Professor of the Department of Urban Planning and Territorial Planning of the University of Seville (US). Graduated in Architecture (2016 - II National Prize and Extraordinary Prize of the US), Master in Architecture and Historical Heritage (2018), Master in Urban Planning, Planning and Urban Design (2020) and Doctor of Architecture (2023 - International Mention and joint supervision US- ISCTE (Lisbon)), by the US. Member of the GoI HUM700 - Heritage and Territorial Urban Development in Andalusia and the IUACC - University Institute of Architecture and Construction Sciences. His research focuses on heritage studies at an urban-territorial scale, contemporary heritage and Le Corbusier's urban planning.

José Peral-López, University of Seville

Architect and Doctor from the University of Seville where he has been teaching at Bachelor's and Master's levels since 1998. Member of the National Committee of ICOMOS Spain and the working group for the ISO/PWI TS 5727 standard, Accessibility of immovable cultural heritage- General criteria and methodology . Research and publications with Cultural Heritage as a common concept to the territorial scope and water infrastructures as well as universal accessibility.

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Published

2024-06-30

Issue

Year 19, issue 55 (Jun. 2024)

Section

Special section

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