Ciutat vella valència: memoria del agua, estratigrafía urbana, reactivación de uso
- Autores: Adrián Torres Astaburuaga
- Directores de la Tesis: Manuel Guàrdia i Bassols (dir. tes.), Nicolas Tixier (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2018
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: José Luis Oyón (presid.), Carles Sanchis Ibor (secret.), Teresa Marat Mendes (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Teoría e Historia de la Arquitectura por la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya
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- Resumen
Cities are rooted to the territory where they are located. Territorial variables determinate its morphogenesis and evolution. This research reconstitutes a urban landscape history, its hydraulic traces or the memory of water, bringing out to surface the geo-archaeological layers, its pre-anthropic and anthropic geographies. The evolution towards a more sustainable city starts then with the reassembly of its ecological history, which carries the keys to define new intervention strategies from an ecological and ecosystem-based approach. That means interiorizing green urban infrastructure notion, in its most deep sense. The use of specific interdisciplinary methods, where the historical cartography superimposition stands out (recomposing the contemporary urban palimpsest), provides a better understanding related to the interaction systems between the city (urban fabric, social activity), with its biophysical matrix. The contemporary interpretation of these systems can be the basis of an environmental and social regeneration of the city. The PhD research takes the case study of Valencia City, due to its intense (though sometime forgotten or partially obliterated) relation between hydraulic flows, urban form, and culture. The research is focused in the historical centre of the city, a context apparently mineral and watertight, but that presents a morphogenesis intrinsically linked to the hydraulic factors. The study of its current state, with the abundant presence of urban non-constructed plots and vacant spaces, allows imagining another possible city. Surface or runoff water, underground or phreatic water, rainwater and sanitary water, will be the targets of this applied research, into the case study case de studio, in order to restructure metabolic regeneration strategies in the urban context. An ecological and contemporary approach towards the urban phenomenon must go hand in hand with a social or sociological approach. Today we cannot dissociate the urban ambiance from its inhabitants whom generate the ambiance in itself. Water, urban ambiance and the inhabitant are intrinsically interconnected.
For the conceptual and methodological development of the research we use as an operational referent the biologist, sociologist and proto-ecologist Scottish planner Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) . The review and updating of its approaches and procedures, undertaken in his Indian reports between 1914 y 1924, will serve us as guidance in order to think and plan today the city of tomorrow.
