La ciudad-racimo y la pérdida de la gran calle

Abstract

The text analyses the visual elements of the city-bunch, a kind of fragmented city with own morphological characteristics whose origin can be find in the sucessive land legislation adopted since 1976. Residential developments are planned into independent sectors and around the main urban road network. It thus produce defined edges between neighbourhoods; moreover two new kinds of street are appeared, called "street-place" and "boundary avenue"; finally it confirms that the city-bunch is unable to create new great streets, in the historical and landscaping sense of the word. A visual analyse of existing examples in Cáceres, a mediumsize Spanish city, is made to describe these elements. The text concludes with a discussion on the city-buch model of development.