Regenerative Urbanism in Spain
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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.20252512458Keywords:
Regenerative urbanism, Deliberation forums, Territorial reconquest, Climate adaptation, Climate mitigation, Climate regenerationAbstract
In the context of the desertification of the Iberian Peninsula resulting from climate change, an economic boom is serving as an historic opportunity to implement a multidisciplinary deliberative forum capable of coming to agreement regarding a Spanish Regenerative Territorial and Urban Model (MUTRE) that is set for implementation before 2100. The MUTRE would serve as a legal framework for promoting and financing strategic projects involving adaptation, mitigation and regeneration, both in the contexts of Spanish compact cities and of the empty territory of Spain. For compact cities, known adaptation, mitigation and regeneration strategies are proposed. For the empty territory, land reconquest strategies and ways of inhabiting that are better aligned with local resources are speculated. Positioning water and energy cycles as the focus, regenerative strategic projects could be critical of mass tourism, water engineering systems, intensive and irrigation agriculture, and modern infrastructures such as water treatment plants, desalination plants, data centres and large-scale renewables.
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