URBAN SETTLEMENTS

Based on an interpretation of a range of different aspects of the metropolitan built city, the proposal is to regulate urban settlements in accordance with the various circumstances, seeking improvements to comfort and efficiency for both the resident and working populations.

Urban Settlements
The challenges and objectives detected in the diagnosis have also revealed a number of new needs that must be met. The aims pivot around two paradigms: first, restoration rather than expansion, accentuating the finite nature of the land and its consideration as a scarce and prized resource; and second the promotion of efficiency within the existing city, emphasising the habitability of the urban environment and the competitiveness of activity areas.

It is, then, essential to pay attention to the built city, initially focussing on identification and contextualisation, which will in turn condition the regulation of residential and economic activity fabrics. In this sense, the existing fabrics are interpreted and recognised from various perspectives: morphology, function, relative location and metropolitan role.

These four initial components define the urban planning situation of the settlements, conditioning the decisions to be made with respect to their two key components: the relationship between form and the uses of the city; and the minimum levels of socio-environmental facilities.

INTERPRETATION AND RECOGNITION OF THE BUILT CITY

REGULATE TO IMPROVE HABITABILITY AND COMPETITIVENESS

INDICATIVE MAP

Aims presented in the PDU Preliminary Document with respect to urban settlements