Planes Especiales de Protección en Cascos Históricos de España¿Hacia un urbanismo sostenible?

Abstract

Spain has one of the richest historical heritages of the world, sheltering on its territory, 12 cities declared World Heritage Site. For your protection, have been drafted so-called Special Protection Plans. During the decades of 70 to 90, the editors of these plans were carried out throughout the Spanish territory. Four decades later, time to assess whether the intended effects were obtained with the wording, and if allowed the correct coexistence of past, present and future of these cities. For its citizens, day by day in their homes has been difficult, making its maintenance a burden. For technicians, the Special Plan has been, many times, a straitjacket that away from them guidelines and criteria for intervention hindered the proper reinterpretation of that architecture. The challenge ahead is to achieve a sustainable protection tool, that far from difficult life of its inhabitants, make the world heritage city, an attractive place to live, maintaining the delicate balance between continuity and change.