Conferencia pronunciada en el contexto del Curso "Hacia la CIudad Resiliente. La planificación urbana entre innovación e incertidumbre: experiencias en italia y España". Organizado por el Instituto Universitario de Urbanística de la Universidad de Valladolid los días 20 a 22 de abril de 2015.

1. Aprendiendo de Valladolid:
un camino posible hacia la
resiliencia urbana
Juan Luis de las Rivas

2. Contenidos:
1. Sostenibilidad como calidad de
vida.
Resiliencia en la ciudad región (paisaje).
2. La ciudad que cambia
Valladolid, de la ciudad-región al ‘modelo’
urbano.
3. Re-imaginar la estructura urbana
Una relectura de los (sub-) sistemas
urbanos
4. Resiliencia y regeneración urbana.
Ciudad de agua. Argumentos de
resistencia urbana.

3. Gotham City becomes real… The Dark Knight, 2006
¿Ciudad sostenible?
Oxímoron… entre Gotham y el País de las Maravillas 0

4. Sustainability by design: a new urban culture
from technologies to public spaces…
integrated urban development
(see „Leipzig Charter on Sustainable
European Cities‟, 2007)

5. Re-thinking all urban scales
London Olimpic Legacy Masterplan framework

6. ¿Es la sostenibilidad una nueva utopía?
Fuller Dome
Ecolonia, Holanda, L.Kroll 1987-93
Eden Project , Cornualles (GB) 2001

7. “Se puede analizar el pasado, pero hay que diseñar el futuro”
Edward De Bono, en “¡Piensa! Antes de que sea demasiado tarde”, 2011
“No hay utopías a la vuelta de la esquina”
Lord Anthony Giddens, entrevista en ABC, 3 de Noviembre de 2013
Manhattan Dome
Buckminster Fuller, 1960

8. Sostenibilidad como calidad de vida.
Resiliencia en la ciudad región (¿otro paisaje?).
Laredo y Sanjenjo en „Paisajes Perdidos‟, Pedro Bator (2009)
1

9. Vancouver‟s Greenest
City Action Plan, 2009

10. In „The New Science of Cities‟, Michael
Batty (MIT Press 2013) suggests that
to understand cities we must view them
not simply as places in space but as
systems of networks and flows…

11. Sustainability as Quality of Life
En “Ensuring quality of life in Europe's cities and towns”, EEA-UE, 2009

13. Planning with ecological thinking
The invention of a new methodology:
Suitability analysis, overlay mapping, impact
assessment...
“Our eyes do not divide us from the world, but unite
us with it. Let this be known to be true. Let us then
abandon the simplicity of separation and give unity
its due. Let us abandon the self mutilation which
has been our way and give expression to the
potential harmony of man-nature. The world is
abundant, we require only a deference born of
understanding to fulfill man's promise. Man is that
uniquely conscious creature who can perceive and
express. He must become the steward of the
biosphere. To do this he must design with
nature."
Ian L. McHarg (1920-2001), „Desig with Nature‟,
1969.

14. -Forman, R.T.T. and M. Godron. 1986. Landscape Ecology. John Wiley and Sons,
Inc., New York, NY, USA.
-Forman, R.T.T. 1995. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Landscape Ecology
Principles, relationships:
Biodiversity
Elements:
Patches, niches, zones…
Boundaries, limits, buffers…
Corridors, connectivity…
Mosaics, networks, patterns

16. Richard Florida, 2002
“The rise of the Creative Class”
Michael Porter, 2008
“On Competition”
Place, people, economy…

17. COMMUNITY PLANNING

18. Papel de nuevos sectores productivos en la regeneración urbana (2), en ciudades muy dinámicas,
como Londres, San Francisco, Vancouver… emergencia de clusters locales de innovación (una
tendencia urbana clásica, de origen gremial, los competidores trabajan cerca, compartiendo
espacio y conocimiento …
“The new economy of inner city” (Thomas A. Hutton, 2010),

20. 2La ciudad que cambia
Valladolid, de la ciudad-región al ‘modelo’ urbano

21. Francesco Indovina, “La metropolización
del territorio” :
“Può valere la pena di interrogarsi se
questa tendenza alla metropolizzazione del
territorio non possa costituire una risposta
ad alcune sfide che la situazione actuale
pone. In particolare quella derivante dalla
globalizzazione e dalla nuova divisione
internazionale del lavoro e quella qui
discende dalla necessità di attivare forme
di sviluppo sostenibile. In sostanza il nuovo
mosaico metropolitano costituisce, non
importa se consapevolmente o meno, un
contributo per dare risposte positive a
questi problemi?”
See “La explosión de la ciudad”, Antonio Font, Francesco
Indovina y Nuno Portas, Forum de las Culturas, Barcelona
2004.

22. 2001 2006 2011
Valladolid 318.293 319.943 313.437
Suburban area 58.357 (+15,5%) 77.928 (+19,6%)
100.168
(24,2%)
Valladolid & Suburb 376.650 397.871 413.605
Recent demographic trends 2001 -2011
(Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, 2011)
The compact city and the sprawled outskirts
413.605 inhab. in a complex rural-urban
system
The metropolitan area

23. POPULATION CHANGE IN THE CENTRAL CITY AND IN THE URBAN AREA
Source: INE, Censos y Padrón de Población 2012

24. DOTVaEnt
DIRECTRICES DE ORDENACIÓN DEL TERRITORIO DE VALLADOLID
Y ENTORNO
Only the protective system becomes
compulsory

26. Valladolid and its urban area: Centralities and poles (Source: Instituto Universitario de Urbanística)
Managing urban interfaces
Advanced services
Retail
Central functions coming outside:
Centralities and Poles
Parque tecnologico de Boecillo (Source: El Día de Valladolid, 2013)
RioShopping (Source: Instituto Universitario de Urbanística, 2013)

27. Rural and natural landscapes

28. Local planning adapt to the regional
planning instrument

29. 3Re-imaginar la estructura urbana
Una re-lectura de los (sub-) sistemas urbanos
It is possible to improve and adapt the representation of urban structure
Urban Structure like city physical support . Source of meaning... formal, functional and
symbolic.

30. Interurban networks, functional
interactions, landscapes, urban and
rural areas… a deeper understanding
of territory
1)The Regional Landscape
2)The complexity of Urban Area
3) New and old neighborhoods
4)Their interferences
Understanding middle territories
In an emergent metropolitan area
A new geography / ecology of
the City-Region

31. Land uses Mosaic. Urban changes, Valladolid Sur
2012
1998
Urban patterns
Select and describe typologies of repetitive urban situations

32. Mobility
Flows, Fractures, Barriers, Doors
Open spaces
Nature / Landscape, Corridors,
Continuities/Fragments
Central places
Built environment, Well-served
and equipped
City, Neighborhoods & urban
centrality structure
Urban structure as a source of
meaning
Combining three urban
systems

33. 1. Mobility and access

34. Qualities, street
features…
Densities, transport
needs, future „City Gates‟
program and tram
alternatives…
Alternative reading

35. 2. Centers and Neighborhoods
catalog of services, “urban units”, etc

36. Combining existing issues
and new opportunities
Historical Center,
new centralities –poles,
corridors, specialized
areas…-,
main equipment zones,
urban regeneration zones…
Alternative reading

37. 3. Nature and open spaces

38. Ecological framework. Open spaces
Interactions between city and environment
Alternative
reading

39. Mixing figures: re-imagining urban structure

40. Hypothesis: new conceptual matrix, game of scales, territorial relationships

41. 4Resiliencia y regeneración urbana
Ciudad de agua. Argumentos de resistencia urbana

42. Madrid
Valladolid
AVe 2007
High Speed Train
Madrid-Valladolid: 1 hour

43. “plan Rogers”
„Modificación del Plan General de
Ordenación Urbana de la Red Ferroviaria
Central de Valladolid‟
Richard Rogers and Partners, 2010
The big project as urban
solution?

44. Lockheed Martin &1000 companies. R+D Program: 65.000 Millions US$. 170/180 Units
¿El problema es lo que cuesta?... F-22 Raptor

45. Valladolid-Palencia Corridor
Land uses along the Pisuerga Valley
Urban regeneration is not
only a question of urban
projects, it must involve the
vision of the city region as
a whole

46. Pisuerga Industrial Corridor

48. 420.000 inhab. in a
complex rural-
urban system
In the inner city,
310.000 people, in
the outskirts,
110.000...
Alternative reading
Urban faces and interfaces

58. River-fronts and
canals like the
argument for
urban
regeneration