Hortaleza, a small village in the North-East of Madrid was absorbed by the expansion of the city in the 1960s. We studied the morphological changes experienced by the historic center of Hortaleza in Madrid, providing insights for local conservation policies. It was led by the urban design and planning office Paisaje Transversal and commissioned by […]
The cross-fertilisation of cohesion policy and spatial planning policy brief was a spin-off work of the COMPASS research project (2018), commissioned by ESPON EU. The objective of the project was to provide an authoritative comparative report on changes in territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe from 2000 to 2016. Findings for 32 countries […]
The Barcelona Metropolitan Housing Observatory (OHB) has several research laboratories that analyse housing trends in the metropolitan region of the city. The Renovation Lab develops research on the potential for housing renovation, including how the housing stock could be increased through renovation and retrofitting initiatives. This lab analyses cadaster and licenses data to visualise and […]
Slum upgrading programs; urban renewal; Latin America; Medellín; Rio de Janeiro Article co-authored with David Labarthe, published in the book Otro urbanismo para Lima: Más allá del mejoramiento de barrios, Molnarova, Rodríguez Rivero, Espinoza & Fort Meyer. (eds.) PUCP, UCSUR, GRADE, Lima Barriadas, favelas, villas miseria or comunas are found in the main Latin American […]