Building civic spaces and public facilities: from inherited deficits to the challenge of ecological transition
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https://doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2025.224.6Keywords:
Equipment, Urban standards, Urban planning, Dispossession, Life qualityAbstract
One of the keys to the city's social and democratic project since the second half of the 20th century has been public facilities. This space is reserved in the city to offer those public services that are considered essential for the collective satisfaction of the basic needs that the State must provide for all its citizens. These elements thus become spaces for socialising and meeting, as well as institutional symbols of the collective and of the political and social model itself. They are also elements that attract activity, uses and people around them, becoming spaces that generate urban centrality on both a neighbourhood and city scale. This article takes a look at the origin, evolution and implementation of the system of public facilities and their relationship with Spanish urban planning, through the compulsory transfer of land included in the different legislations since 1975. Since the end of the 1990s, we have witnessed a questioning of the model that can be understood as a process of dispossession of urban common goods and where public land for facilities plays an essential role.
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