Main researcher:
Andrés Caballero Lobera
Research team:
Aritz Díez Oronoz
Alberto Ustarroz Calatayud
Imanol Iparraguirre Barbero
Manuel Iñiguez Villanueva
Juan José Segú Alonso
Javier Cenicacelaya Marijuan
The research carried out has tried to make a first approach to identify these citizen spaces and put them back in value as the best way to spread their urban importance and try to recover their identity and the fundamental role they must fulfill – today as in the past – our cities.
The green areas of various kinds that emerged outside the historic centers of our cities served – since their inception in the s. XVIII – as public spaces for both relief, recreation and representation for the citizen community.
Thus, and in their typological variety, the avenues, tree-lined promenades, boulevards and parks built on the periphery of the historic centers were constituted as main landscaped spaces, which in many cases came to articulate the new dialectical relationship between the historic center and the successive ones enlargements of the city over time. However, over the years and the disorderly expansion of the cities, many of these spaces have been distorted and have lost their main public and urban function. principal investigator