Steps Towards Ecological Urban Regeneration: Beyond Energy- Effi ciency

Authors

  • Carlos Verdaguer Viana-Cárdenas
  • Isabela Velázquez Valoria

Keywords:

Urbanismo, ecología, sostenibilidad urbana, regeneración urbana integral, metabolismo urbano, crisis global

Abstract

The article offers a synthetic overview along the time of the successive phases characterizing the
slow overlapping of the proposals of urban renewal and the approaches based on the new ecological
paradigm till present day, when the global economic crisis has brought forth the concept of integral
urban regeneration and the urgent need of a change in the urban-territorial planning model. Some
of the diffi culties for the insertion of the ecological approach into urban regeneration practice are
underlined, signaling they are mainly due to the fact that this new approach confronts the
fundamentals of a real-state model based on over-consumption of land and resources and still
operating within a professional and political framework weighed down by sectoral visions and a
reductionist conception of environmental issues. Finally, some general guidelines for change are
proposed, based on a resolute implementation of the new paradigm.

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Published

2012-03-29

How to Cite

Verdaguer Viana-Cárdenas, C., & Velázquez Valoria, I. (2012). Steps Towards Ecological Urban Regeneration: Beyond Energy- Effi ciency. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 44(171), 97–112. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76111