Urban processes, water dynamics and climate change

Authors

  • Margarita Jover Biboum Tulane University
  • Rubén García Rubio Tulane University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-6057
  • Carlos Ávila Calzada Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020154933

Keywords:

Urban Processes, Water Dynamics, Climate Change

Abstract

Essential to any form of life, water defines our blue planet. Historically, human settlements have managed this resource for both personal use and the development of all kind of activities. Old settlements and their hydrologic systems found at some point in time a balance, but with the industrial revolution, urban development and its relation to water systems and associated ecologies have drastically transformed. Today’s socioecological crisis is unprecedented. Humanity’s capacity for environmental transformation has come to define a new geological era, known as the Anthropocene (the era of men). Understanding the causes of this planetary transformation calls for alternative and more precise names such as Thanatocene (the era of war), Phagocene (the era of consumption), Thermocene (the era of global warming) and Capitalocene (the era of capital).

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Author Biographies

Margarita Jover Biboum, Tulane University

Margarita Jover is Associate Professor of Architecture at Tulane University and co-founder of aldayjover architecture and landscape. Founded in 1996 and based in Barcelona (Spain) and New Orleans (USA), aldayjover is a multidisciplinary research-based practice, focused on innovation and in the specific character of the place. The work is particularly renowned by its leadership in a new approach to the relation between cities and rivers. aldayjover has designed the most significant recent public spaces in Barcelona (Sagrera Park or The Green Diagonal), Zaragoza (Water Park, Tramway), Pamplona (Aranzadi Park) or Ibiza (Vara de Rei), together with cultural centers, theaters, sports halls, infrastructural buildings, and housing. The firm has received, amongst others, the ‘European Urban Public Space Prize’ (2002), the FAD Prize for ‘City and Landscape’ (2009); The Prize for International Urban Integration ATP (2011), finalist of the ‘International and European Landscape Architecture Biennales Prizes’ (2008) and (2013), the Ibero-American Architecture Biennale (2004); and nominated for the European Union Architecture Prize-Mies van der Rohe Award (2009).

Rubén García Rubio, Tulane University

Ruben Garcia Rubio holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Valladolid (Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award), and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Roma Tre. He has been a “Visiting Scholar” at the American Academy in Rome in 2012. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA) and, previously, has taught in several schools of architecture and international institutions in Europe and the Middle East, where he was able to work on several university-projects that combined his teaching objectives, research interests, and professional work. In addition to his teaching role, Ruben is a practicing architect and is the co-founder of studioVRA (with Sonsoles Vela). His work has been distinguished with several architectural awards, both design and built, and published in international architectural magazines. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the architectural weblog CajondeArquitecto.com.

Carlos Ávila Calzada, Universidad de Zaragoza

Zaragoza, January 8, 1962. Degree in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid specialized in Botany (1985). Certificate of Higher Landscape Architectural Studies from the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles (France/1988). Part-time teacher in the Department of Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Architecture University of Zaragoza. Teacher Master Landscape, gardening and Public Space University of Granada. Publications: “Zaragoza: Avanzamos rápido. Planes y proyectos para la ciudad 2000/2015” (2007), “Z arquitectura” nº 9-10 (2008), “El Parque del Agua” (2008), “El Urbanismo de  la Expo. El Plan de Acompañamiento” (2008), “Civiltà delle acque. Valorizzazione e risparmio della risorsa acqua nell’architettura e nell’ambiente. Atti 2009”, “Parchi Pubblici, Aqua e Città. Torino e l’Italia nel contesto europeo” (2010), “#012 Low Cost” revista “PAISEA” (2010), “A New Strategy for Water & Green Space” nº 95 “Newsletter IFLA” (2011), “Proyectos integrados de arquitectura, paisaje y urbanismo 2011”, “LIFE+ TERUEL: Recuperación del entorno de Las Arcillas” (2014), “Jaca: Ciudadpaisaje/landcsapecity” (2017), “Urban Visions: from Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism” – Chapters 27/28 (2018).

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Published

2021-01-27

How to Cite

Jover Biboum, M., García Rubio, R., & Ávila Calzada, C. (2021). Urban processes, water dynamics and climate change. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (15), 4–11. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020154933

Issue

No. 15 (2020): Urban Processes, Water Dynamics & Climate Change

Section

Editorial

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