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 Urban Planning Office in the City Council of Madrid.
The team studied changes experienced in the urban tissue of the historic center of Hortaleza in four different moments: before 1950, between 1950 and 1975, between 1975 and 2003, from 2003 until nowadays. These changes were connected to socio-economic changes, as well as historical events in Hortaleza and Madrid and changes in urban planning regulations. My role was to lead the spatial and morphological analysis, including the extraction of qualitative and quantitative data using GIS software, the desk research on historic events, and the comparison of the different layers of information.
You can read more about the methodology to work in urban historic centers developed by Paisaje Transversal in this blog post.
