URBANISM

Author: RIBALAYGUA BATALLA CECILIA.
Year: 2003.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID [www.upm.es].
Place of defense: ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA.

Summary: The paper analyzes the evolution of the French high-speed network in the field of local strategies for optimizing the arrival of three high-speed cities of the line and have a station located at its periphery. Following an analysis of the European networks, fracesa and Spanish, is evaluán accompanying measures carried cabao by the seven French cities with peripheral station, supported by the study of the case of the city of Macon. The analysis was completed by the study of cases of Spanish Royal City, Guadalajara and Segovia, which explores the degree of applicability of completed in France. Englobadas into three groups (strategies prvisión, management and promotion) doctoral thesis makes a total of thirteen estratgias to be carried out by local authorities.

Author: GIGLIO MÓNICA ADRIANA.
Year: 2003.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID [www.upm.es].
Place of defense: ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA.

Summary: This investigation, aims to serve as a basis for the construction of an urbanization rules in the study area, taking it exploration of the relationship between the planning process and transforamciones territorial. Some studies socioterritoriales consulted on the changes of recent decades in the region of Greater Buenos Aires, raised criticisms of the existing regulatory framework, for not being able to control the process of urban fragmentation that is taking place. That is why it is considered necessary to deepen the analysis on the causes of this situation and take into account other frameworks nomativos comparable. To interpret the problem, the following hypotheses were developed: There in the Region of Greater Buenos Aires is an overlap of two distinct processes of urbanization, the first corresponds to a pattern of "center" -periferia ", with growth in the form of stain oil and the second corresponds to the model of "edge cities", forming a new outlying enclaves self-sufficient. both resulting in a dispersed and fragmented urban development. Consistent with the prevailing policy of deregulation, privatization and downsizing of the state, the conditions are conducive to the "laissez-faire", where the private sector decides to intervene in the city and plans its services. This reinforces urban development dispersed and fragmented. about the growth model compact, proposed by the Law on Land Management and Usage Land of the Province of Buenos Aires, overlaps sector-specific regulation, which evaluates new ventures urban case-by-case basis, facilitating urban development dispersed and fragmented. To address the analysis, there is a scheme with three areas of study developed in three levels: 1 - The scope metropolitan 2 - The context (national and international) 3-Scale local (addressed in two case studies. with every level of a chapter structure and in the fourth chapter presents the conclusions and recommendations. The three axes of these are: The urbanization process, the process of planeamienteo (with its normative component) and between analyzing the process Fragmentation Urbana. latter is notable for the emergence in recent years of new real products that motivate a new form of land management.

Author: GIL LOPEZ TOMAS.
Year: 2003.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID [www.upm.es].
Place of defense: ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA.

Summary: The city is not only an object defined by the conjunction of a place, some functions and a population, but beyond this is a space to be experienced. It is ultimately a set of volumes maclados built by private public space is the most attractive for pedestrians because of their status límite.El edge public -privado is not just an element definidro of architectural and urban planning, but it also generates around it in an area where the bulk of the activity of peatones.Por Accordingly, the design of this area of transition between public space and private space, it is extremely important for its impact on eluso future of public places by individuals. Against this background, the research paper presents a study of public spaces and in particular the brink public -privado depending on the use to which the man makes the mismos.Es say was aimed through the analysis of the behavior of individuals within the public-edge information be useful for the design of future espacios.Por therefore, there is no attempt to study the behavior of pedestrians dedde a point of view socilógico but from a viewpoint arqutectónico and urbanistico.Esta thesis aims to investigate how different public-edge treatments increasingly complex influence on the behavior of genetic individuos.O rather, seeks to examine the responses without pedestrian before various configuracionesdel edge public -privado and thus able to identify the relationship between the two. It should highlight the interest to apply this theoretical development in an urban space is as important as the shopping street. It conjungan a variety of configurations edge because of the diversity of existing uses in the private area, a heavily trafficked peatonal.Durante research has been analyzed, po aside configuaración edge through the definition of public-private three variables: the rate, permeability and erratic, and by another. The behavior of pedestrians, through: the speed and location of the activities static. The results of this work have been reflected in two models grafécos: configuration map and the map of comportamiento.La overlap of the two models has led to the outcome of the investigation. Considering the foregoing, it has been possible to establish the degree the influence of the configuration of public-edge in shaping events in their environment and the ability to generate life "among" buildings. The findings do reflect the designer during the design stage, on the possibility of future use of urban spaces by man, and learn to think like a peatón.Se seeks ultimately to implement an old saying popular.antes being unmarried, one must learn to think like a bull.

Author: INOSTROZA TORO SUSANA VALERIA.
Year: 2003.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Summary: The title of this thesis: âHuellas in the city heredadaâ refers to aspects of a general nature in which fits the specific problem of this footprint in the city that we inherited. The caption that accompanies it, âComplejidad and continuity in the morphogenesis of contemporary urban project in the city europeaâ introduces the dimension proyectual complex contemporary urban project has been able to create in the European city. The thesis is close to the traces found in the projects using an existing urban archaeological vision to categorize the types of scars on the urban landscape. The central hypothesis or main course is based on the potential of the footprint inherited to influence the creation of new urban projects and public spaces in the contemporary city. While the projects studied and built to meet current needs of the city, were seen firmly anchored in the history of the place. For this reason, the thesis has considered relevant hindsight of past experiences of these cities. The city in Europe is a product of ancient structure and slow sedimentaciones various interventions. It is a structure that reflects a slow process of transformation and stratification on preexistencias, generating entirely different configurations, but always showing an original design that certifies the essence of the city. The architect is the sculptor of the city, it reflected an idea that has developed in their minds, and sometimes the stories collected prior referring to the place. For some creators of urban space concerned about the future of the city, the value of the history of a place is as important as the concepts of form and composition. It is necessary to learn about the place and its history to imagine the project and how and why they fit their fragments. The architectural and urban should be similar to the page in a book that describes many years in the history of a place. This thesis aims to demonstrate as currently used in the footsteps of previous occupations in the development of certain urban projects. It proposes a methodology to systematize this succession of temporary interference of any fact that is urban with a little bit of history. It emphasizes the use graphics as a tool to demonstrate reliable characteristics of the fingerprint. They are defined and / or graph traces these materials, intangible missing encountered latent and other permanent, as a way to better understand the potential of heredity in the development of contemporary project of the city as a guideline for access a serious way to knowledge and the complexity of urban design.

Author: MARTI CASANOVAS MIQUEL.
Year: 2003.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Author: ARAGAO COSTA MARTINS ANAMARIA DE.
Year: 2003.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: CAMPUS SUD.
Place of preparation: URBANISME I ORDENACIÓ TERRITORI.

Summary: The compression fitting of new urban fragments large operations posed as urban transformation of new plant in consolidated stretches of the city, requires the analysis of the relationship tissue ex novo establishes with its environment: on the one hand, linked how adjacent areas and preexistencias which remain conditional draft, and on the other, those associated with how the project built dialogues with the environment and the territory in which it exists. ÂRecolonización urbanaâ focuses on the morphological analysis of these aspects of lace, with the time frame of the case study projects in the past 25-30 years, and as geographical scope of the first reflection urban neighborhoods west of the city. These new urban fragments arising from the opportunities generated by the transformation of old barriers, which initially operated as elements of urban polarization and then become elements of disintegration of the tissue around it. The first peripheries â territories formed from the mid-nineteenth century, with the industrialization of the metropolis today â areas are paradigmatic analysis. While operation on new plant and urbanized areas, the transformation affects their structure. There is therefore a process of recolonization, which organizes not only built but otherwise defines the new medium and using spaces transformados.la research seeks to identify, first of all areas of opportunity for the urban transformation around the obstacles â â border areas, creating the possibility of connecting frames historically segregated. On these sites, then define the perimeters of intervention. It discusses the topological relationships with the environment and with the pre-existing elements to get typify situations project, subject to certain conditions â morphological scenarios. Des-construyendo process proyectual, identifies the definition of support strategies and management of the area three-dimensional ex novo. While the analysis of the medium makes it possible to evaluate the integration and articulation of a new piece fit in with the environment, management and tridimensionalidad help morphological analysis of the consistency of this new urban space on what exists. These variables allow re-look territories processed to verify the extent to which operations have been able to build cohesion in urban areas marked earlier by fragmentation, heterogeneity and disconnection of their frames. The suture is observed in urban projects that have managed to restore continuity between morphological environment and project area, from the connection of permeability channels through a network of support. There are those who also avoid spraying flows with empty spaces and well-configured with clear functions. Enhancing the flexibility of the residential unit in the definition of urban grain and edilicio, opting for smaller units, often ensure greater continuity in morphological transitions. In rejecting membership autonomous environment, a result of certain strategies proyectuales, new fragments achieve that transformation takes effect positivos.Cuatro territories taken as a case study in Barcelona (Poblenou), Paris (Quartier de la Gare), Amsterdam (Oostelijk Havengebied ) and Rio de Janeiro (Enseada da Gamboa), where there are seven operations and eleven urban projects help build a theoretical discourse based on recent experiences of urban transformation. The theoretical dimension allows for analysis tools that are converted, as an advisory findings, foundations of a methodological approach to the draft urban recolonization.

Author: SANTOS GARZEDIN M. ARUANE.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE BELLAS ARTES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE BELLAS ARTES.

Author: GARCÍA GÓMEZ ELSA MARÍA.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE VALENCIA [www.upv.es].
Place of defense: Dep. Composicion Arquitectonica.
Place of preparation: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

Summary: The historic cities are those that face the future with its past heritage. Since the last decade of the twentieth century has intensified the debate on the role of managing those assets as a way to upgrade the city. Tourism and culture industry, sustainable development, decentralization, cultural policy and public privadaâ | are the concepts that accompany this new debate, and though they show the current tension between the needs of the metropolis, its citizens and its visitors. This thesis is presented that analyzes these phenomena and test what model or management models are valid for two specific historic cities of Europe: Toledo and Vienna (Both were born as imperial cities, showed a similar level of protection, were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO yet presented problems and develop under a different cultural context). The thesis is divided into two parts: an initial theory that analyzes the concepts described above through four thematic blocks (pillars on the notion of potentisation property) that are legislation and catering, property management and state funding and "museolization". This study focuses mainly for analysis in the countries of Austria and Spain but there are also references to various European countries and the policies of the various supranational bodies. The second part, based on findings from the first, applied the theories in two cities: Toledo and Vienna. It proposes two different management models and trying to establish what common points can be found for wider use (and if this is possible). The thesis is accompanied by an extensive bibliography for each topic that helps deepen each topic for future research.

Author: ELKOUSS LUSKI EDUARDO GABRIEL.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID [www.upm.es].
Place of defense: ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA.
Place of preparation: ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA. UNIV. POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID.

Summary: In recent decades, the issue of accessibility has gained greater importance in our society, in the city and its environs, from the perspective of architecture and town planning, transport and communications, both for individuals and for groups , including the physically disabled, mental and sensory. Innovative disciplinary contributions from multiple fields as the Sociology, Psychology, Education, Psychiatry, the law or anthropology have been enriching the knowledge that we have today on the issue, particularly on the accessibility and its relationship with Disabilities . The structure of this Doctoral Thesis has several components. Preceded by a Glossary of Terms, and followed by an introduction, which set out the broader aspects of work, in a Part we approached our area, the accessibility, disability, Space and Movement, with a theoretical journey from the genesis this problem initially by former combatants Americans wounded in the Second World War. And, years later, by others from the Wars of Southeast Asia. This phenomenon is described for accelerated our days with their own Theoretical Foundations, Evolutionary Process, which will have implications Education in the formation of the individual or the importance of Legislative Development on the subject. In a Part Two, the City Access, we have focused on the analysis of new approaches on Accessibility in Urban Public Space or Natural, with a wide range of environments city or part thereof, places that have been visited in order to know situ each of those realities. Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Curitibia or Édmonton have proved excellent examples of cities with a high level of accessibility. But we are also personado Accessible Urban Neighborhood, such as Calle Florida in Buenos Aires, the pedestrian streets of San Sebastian, the Census old Frederica, Nathan Philips Square in Toronto, the Parc Bassa of Brothers Vic, Dam Square Amsterdam, the Cathedral of Freiburg, the Plaza de Oriente Madrid, the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca or pedestrian pathway maritime Torrevieja. Then, we have drafted some general conclusions and individuals, as well as some brief references, with the aim of illustrating with good examples of accessibility in the city and its urban spaces for public use and natural, in architecture, urban planning, transportation public or communications. Streets, boulevards, plazas, promenades, parks and gardens, urban furniture pedestrian routes or public transport adapted in different geographies, both inside and outside Spain. In conclusion, both the First and the Second Part above have been accompanied by a bibliography for each one of them, which has been completed by a final joint Bibliography.

Author: ALCALA LAURA INES.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: ETSAB-UPC.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Summary: The Doctoral Thesis âHACIA THE ASSIMILATION OF THE WAYS SEGREGADAS IN URBAN AREA. The case of Rounds Dalt and Coastal in Barcelonaâ, discusses two central arguments: On the one hand, the possibility of inserting a path in an area segregated urban overcoming conflicts functional misalignments formal and environmental effects that usually this type of tracks produced in the tissues crossed through a road project inseparable from their area of integration and alignment and adjustment of the technical parameters of the urban design of this territory. Moreover, they have the potential urban specialist urban roads (including segregated lanes in its section) in the transformation of the first periphery of a central city and traditional processes for the conversion of degraded areas. It is argued that these routes can be transformed into useful instruments to overcome certain shortcomings conectivas and accessibility, becoming axes irrigation; to overcome conditions sub-urbanización, establishing a continuity between urban core parts and tissues scattered and discontinuous with each other; to create references formal and symbolic in areas characterized by the juxtaposition of parties without a common identity, and also to articulate these parties among themselves and between them and the landscape. It is believed that it is possible and desirable re-pensar such as roads and urban streets concebirlas within integrated urban projects, resituando both its role or function in the city and the role of urban planners in their design. According to raise this, the inclusion of segregated routes in urban areas is not justified on the need to allow travel at speeds high, but by the search for a more rational use of land and a more efficient organization of the different types of displacement , responding simultaneously needs conectivas and distribution becoming its own solution formal element of articulation and formalization urban areas. The thesis is organized into three parts. The first includes a conceptual analysis around two lines of thought. On the one hand, the identification of functional and physical dislocation occurring in the city where traditional introduces a segregated way that responds to a purely technical design and on the other, the identification of the essential features that characterize deficits generally peripheral areas or edge of this type of cities on that from the design of this type of track, we can have a positive impact. The second part focuses on the study of a specific case. This is the analysis of the criteria that guided the design of Rounds Dalt and Coastal in relation to the characteristics of the area where they were inserted in the city of Barcelona and in relation to the changes that have occurred in this area from its construction. The findings of this second part not only serve as an assessment of the effects urban obtained, but these results contrast to the previous analysis, strengthening from selected samples, assumptions maintained. The third part are considered a number of proposals and guidelines for design tools to take into account in the draft similar ways. The investigation also includes a historical overview on the evolution after that the tracks have been segregated in urban areas until today, which allows locating this thesis in the context of the review of this type of track, as well as strategies for urban intervention the city built that have been giving since the 80's, 8 and put 2f6 the draft central case study in the discipline and specific picture of the city in question.

Author: ALEXANDRINO PEREIRA MORGADO CARLA SOFIA.
Year: 2004.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Summary: The absence is the protagonist of contemporary metropolises. However, at the invitation of several authors verified that there was no concrete metropolis interpreted still figuring out the circumstances of the occurrence of vacant spaces. They had to justify the spaces vacated really determine several stages of evolution towards an urban and metropolitan status actually choose a city where that premise was unquestioned, what happens in Lisbon, which is around a large central space vacated: Estuary of Tejo. The investigation determined the course of a collision of very simple structure and extremely flexible. Reflection on the formation Lisbon unoccupied since it was organized in five significant moments in which from three key â water, land, the creation artificial-se identified morphologies of vacant spaces, using the same criteria conceptual, expressed according to the same criteria mapping. Razonando the motives and forms of occupation and the way they interrelate is characterized not only the metropolis Lisbon but current trends immediate development. Furthermore, we were able to verify as the three elements related to one another to characterize the state and territorial each, over time, it was adapted to the circumstances of the metropolitan own formation: 1. 1860 | the foundation of the metropolis: Forms of water and land in this period were the most determinants of urban training, resulting directly from them the artificial creation that definitely scored subsequent developments; 2. 1940 | the infrastructural base of the metropolis: the territory where they were beginning to form patterns of the future metropolis Lisbon is transformed from the main lines infraestructuradas, with particular impact for the railway and the port of Lisbon, 3. 1965 | Space Machine began to form a conurbation pre-metropolitana and intensive exploitation of the territory, involving a space funcionalización expressed in the forms of maximum production, 4. 1992 | a city of opportunity: it was the first state to actually metropolitan when he attended a renewal of opportunities soil comparatively to the previous period; 5. 2001 | transformation supra-metropolitana: integration into networks of higher ranks found a reduction seemingly homogeneous space vacated which contributes to a landscape and a few indifferent concerning urban. The analysis of each period showed a territorial structure in progress, from its foundation to its current status of a member in a training supra-metropolitana. It turned out that each state corresponded perfectly autonomous reading but whose time sequence explains the current configuration of the city of Lisbon from the vacated spaces and allows enunciate some trends of evolution. Knowledge of the progressive formation of the metropolis allowed justifiably cualificarla in every moment, showing that space is vacated its essential determinant in the territory of Lisbon. This contribution has a particular interest because it proposes an innovative interpretation of a particular territory from the characterization of the space that is not concerned, based on a methodology itself. The use of GIS techniques applied to a specific territory builds up a unique mapping on the issue, with potential for future use, as well as a detailed mapping file on the territory under study. The methodology and findings may eventually be applied to the interpretation of other metropolises.

Author: Vidal Casellas Maria Dolors.
Year: 2004.
University: GIRONA [www.udg.es].
Place of defense: Universitat de Girona, Facultat de Lletres.
Place of preparation: Facultat de Lletres.

Summary: The cultural tourism between 1910 and 1936, is studied in this work as an important precedent to the further development of the late twentieth century. The study of the monthly magazine Barcelona Attraction lets us know as perceived image of the heritage ties the standpoint of the promotion and tourism management and reporting it to the visitor tourist. The paper analyzes the intersection of culture, art, monument, tourism and construction projection of the image. Through the projection of the tourism image is set in an imaginary country and reception environments, so Barcelona and Catalonia are seen as a destination and a cosmopolitan tourist emerging territory. Barcelona, competes with Paris as a destination for cultural tourism since the early twentieth century and the avant-garde artistic movements and the spread in the mass culture of their projects will be an essential element of this strategy. The Society Attracting Strangers, as inicativa management mixed, non-profit is studied as a predente of existing entities promotional tour.

Author: VECSLIR LORENA.
Year: 2005.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: DPTO.DE URBANISMO Y ORDENACIÓN DEL TERRIRORIO.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Summary: The study of the polarization in RMB shows us how, in the past two decades, the past growth patterns (aggregation, dispersion processes of internal transformation) has been progressively superimposing a new order âreticularâ growth based on the development of mobility infrastructure and transport artery. The quest for accessibility and visual display, new synergies between activities, and above all, the autonomy of growths that found in the arterial network infrastructure centrality of new values different from those of the compact city, are the main features of the innovative polarization. Processes occupation of the territory that is being conducted largely by correcting or contrary to the provisions of municipal plans, under which logical ignore the administrative boundaries, delaying the functional interdependencies and noting the need for a vision supra at the time to regulate the uptake of new pieces urban areas. The fragmentariedad of developments and their lack of integration with the environment, the relocation of uses and combinations functional unpublished, the language of corporate or commercial architectures, and so on. We speak of a process âautorganizativoâ, governed more by market forces the mechanisms by which urban management. Wide leg or fragment, the apparent spontaneity of the new parts urban and its implications on contemporary metropolitan landscape, we raised doubts about the effectiveness of conventional urban instrumental in addressing a process the âproyectoâ of distanced itself from the logic of a formal traditional and functional, and accompanied by substantial changes in social attitudes and economic strategies. In this regard, the phenomenological analysis of polarization reveals some of the laws or rules underlying this process autorganizativo a âracionalidad internaâ that explains the recurrence of some âmaterialesâ and their relationships, from which to build âespesorâ the road . Trends in group activities, patterns in the aggregation of artifacts, forms of access mechanisms and advertising employees are some of the features to be taken into account to a renewed territorial project, which incorporates the process of polarization as one more layer in the configuration of contemporary metropolitan landscape. The lack of relationship between infrastructure, growth and context is the common denominator facing these potential strategies for the project, seeking to prevent independence posed by the current road layouts, the prospects for urban development and the demands on the environment and landscape. The regulation of the activities, repetition typological mechanisms, the project empty and design of the section, working in tranches, intervention in the main nodes or spaces articulation cross are some of the actions proyectuales, many sometimes complementary to each other, which suggests a comprehensive project to the thickness of the road. Thus, the study phenomenological and pre-proyectual of polarization is not intended to convert infrastructure arterial axis of urbanization or âciudades linealesâ, or move mechanically or uncritically models urban land management, but strategies proyectuales explore alternatives for the location and creation Parts metropolitan ânueva centralidad', jerarquizando those sites c 8 on higher 37th potentiality of transformation, and creating the appropriate framework for a progressive and rational occupation soil, which combines formal and functional demands of the market with criteria space and structure of the landscape metropolitan.

Author: ORTUZAR SILVA PABLO.
Year: 2005.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: Aula Pi i Calleja.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Summary: Pregúntase thesis what they are and how they are configured countries. It involves referring to  "los 'countries variety and difference: however, said Giancarlo De Carlo that we are witnessing a process Â" omologazione progressiva dei territori "dangerous for the human race, because the territory has been and is « il riferimento più importante per gli individui e per i gruppi socialiÂ. " I submit that comes  "omologazione progressivaÂ" the rule of science, and several of the variety of beliefs that the thesis called âfigurarseâ, which are for science only an illusion. It is the figure out of the situation  "en 'which we find ourselves, and that is the precisamente of those Â" en `more accurate in this case that the French or Spanish, English calls us Â' investment habitantsÂ. " For example, I live  "enÂ" France,  "enÂ" Britain,  "enÂ" Rennes. For science, is the place  "en 'I am the object of analysis and study, but are not Rennes, France or Britain objects I can find: we will never meet the Â" en "in which we find ourselves, and he calls the Catalan  "contradaÂ", the French  "contrée 'and the English Â" country `can only be Â" en "him. From that  "enÂ" 1 .- We can not see everything, nor can we see it all: we can only figurárnoslo (imaginárnoslo). 2 .- we can see  "loÂ" Breton,  "loÂ" Catalan,  "lo 'English, or whatever: the same country: what someone can love. The  «Ã ¼ bersichtliche DarstellungÂ" - a  "WeltanschauungÂ" typical of today is to provide the  "field togetherÂ" whole: to see it, we must contemplate not only from outside but also from far away: this is the look of the drawings and maps. We can see then  "the connections 'plus 1 .- we be Â" enÂ'  "contrada '2-love or not we can see the Â" loÂ. " He is the one figure out believe, is create a trust, and trust is the wait. More is not an imagined figure out without consequences, escaped to the discretion individual: 1 .- depends on the  "GemeinsamkeitÂ" we-league tradition of a country to which we belong 2 .- determines our habérnoslas with the territory. Habérselas is habit, habitud:  "is the configuration of mon paysÂ" of the combination of two figures, that of the  "Nature comme Terre 'and the country's Â" comme habité par l'à ª tre humain `with fields and buildings , ie geometry. Pregúntase thesis what sense have their figures from the  "enÂ" in which we find ourselves.

Author: BOSC STEPHANE.
Year: 2005.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A CAMPUS SUD.

Summary: The investigation deals with the issue of spatial transformations of contemporary territory Take as an object of study the urban region of Montpellier, one of the areas with more population and economic dynamism in France over the last thirty years. For that reason, it represents a very representative case of existing processes, which are characterized by a broad urban extension and very low density. The research is structured around three main objectives * Define the current structure of the territory in its spatial dimensions and physical * Analyze the processes and mechanisms of urban growth * Investigate approaches and principles of urban policy and urban planning area consists of Montpellier a major city center around which many are located in small towns, villages. The characteristic of the territories creates an evolution as different nuclei. The area of Montpellier has this specificity of a low-density metropolitan system composed of small units the urban metropolis of villages. On the scale of the changes, some municipalities multiplied by 10 or 15 their urban space, we give a particular focus to the question of trials. It identified two different periods, in a first time (from the 50's to 80's, small kernels known a process of atomization, some pieces homogeneous, lotissements (neighborhoods) are created along the roads out of space urban generating a fragmented picture of urban space. The second phase (since the 80s), is defined more by a desire planner control and limit the spatial development of urbanization. way, the POS (Sols des Plans d'Occupation) The paper urbanism municipal boundaries and defines types of land use, urban slowing the spread. analysis of the spatial configuration of the city that results from those processes shows a fragmented urban space where they still perceive the different pieces that make up growth town packet. Those pieces, lotissements, morphology is characterized by a closed, finite, and with enough autonomy from their context. growth by parties is nothing new, similar cases are known in the history of urbanism, but the process is here with such specificity that the sum of the parts does not produce a system but a pure juxtaposition. thesis then produces a reflection on the changes that might be thinking both for the existing urban area, such as for growth future.

Author: SQUELLA CORREA GERMAN EDUARDO.
Year: 2006.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: SALA PI CALLEJA.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Author: DE LA TORRE ESCOTO MARIA ELENA.
Year: 2006.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: SALA PI CALLEJA.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Author: GARCIA PARRA ARACELI.
Year: 2006.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: aula pi calleja etsab.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Summary: Abstract The study proposed in this doctoral thesis is framed inside the recent urban studies that locate their attention in new ways of intervention that act over the consolidated tissues under forces related to the centrality of a city, generating typologies that contrast and modify the morphology of a traditional place and in consequence itâs way of life. Having in this case as study object a traditional site little analyzed from the historiographic and morphologic point of view as far as the origin and development of its structure in form of grid, and its relation with a greater territory. With this, the work establishes a theoretical frame related to the different forms to analyze the urban components of a consolidated tissue, as well as the different proposals for the reorganization of these sets, in where the thesis looks to locate and to synthesize the basic concepts of intervention which serve for the exposition of a reurbanization model to apply in the case of study. Also, the thesis tries to demonstrate that although the case of study has lacked the analyses necessary to carry out this type of exercise, it is possible to investigate on the logic that has allowed a suitable evolution of this tissue and on the basis of it to solve the problem related to the inadequate typological substitution of the last years.

Author: ITRIAGO PELS CARLOS.
Year: 2006.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: PI I CALLEJA.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, EDIFICI A Campus SUD.

Summary: This research examines the morphological transformations of cities from the perspective of the report. In order to capture these changes and their behavior patterns the study focuses on cities that have been subjected to violent and destructive events unscheduled, and therefore have the need to pick up their structures. Thus, the emergency grants to study a process that by its very nature tends to be continuous and slow. It selected a group of cities within a wide range, making sure that the destruction had affected their helmets plants, containers of his report and share a temporal and physical space (of postwar Europe in the second) to them by participants discussion of a common discipline. To bring objectivity to this study, the term is used in preference to the recomposition of rebuilding on the assumption that the structure of the city, in these circumstances, is organized again, while rebuilding may suggest the return of the city to a previous state, which does not always correspond to reality. In that sense, the investigation deals with the role of historical memory of the city in the process of rebuilding urban, recognizing its instrumental character as a creative tool and its specific weight in decision making. As a result, in the first chapter sets out the need to examine the towns recompuestas in the light of what is copied, transforms and is omitted from his State Prior to determine the true role of memory in the changes arising from the processes of recomposition. From this perspective are grouped into three possible strategies for action, namely: Strategies Autorreferentes; Strategies Refundadoras; Strategic Emancipadoras. From the second chapter, research alternating three chapters descriptive / analytical (chapters pairs) which set out the operations from the above strategies, comparing them with each other and two chapters (odd), which examines in detail what is copied and what that becomes cities recompuestas. This structure reveals two axes complementary methodological research: the strategies and the recomposition of the transformative dimension of the recomposition; highlighting the role of memory in proyectuales instruments and their impact on the morphological and aesthetic elements in the projects recomposition. An analysis of the selected cases, it is concluded that the strategies called autorreferentes recognized in the previous state of the city fundamental justification for the new city, looking for the reproduction of a past aesthetic jealously selected, without desist from modernizing its structures. While strategies refundadoras, faithful to the most current vanguards, taking advantage of the destruction as a trigger to raise a city beyond its past, operating, then, as authentic urban laboratories, promoting radical transformations. However, both approaches coexist Transformation and Memory in doses that make their fuzzy boundaries, and that they give rise to commitments between Memory, which recalls the familiar, and the utopia, that represents what you want. These commitments are those that characterize the group called empowering strategies.

Author: TEIXEIRA DE ABREU COSTA JOAO PEDRO.
Year: 2006.
University: POLITÉCNICA DE CATALUÑA [www.upc.edu].
Place of defense: SALA PI I CALLEJA DE L'ETSAB.
Place of preparation: ETSAB, Edifici A --- SD.

Summary: The  "shore proyectos 'is a journey for the bank industry, investigated the case from Lisbon, in his two moments of formation of territorial and urban transformation. Mostrándose as a plural â bank in space and time â, shaped by a multiplicity of areas with own logic, this bank is in the singular, in the end, composed of several banks located in the territories of different characteristics, or preexisting won the river , on water or, at some point, away from the river. It is also a bank that, having initially been occupied by the industry of the city, port activities by the new infrastructure and accessibility to both suffered dynamic utilization variables over time. The investigation focuses on the identification of a set of common patterns in the formation and transformation of the bank from the industrial period, elected from the case study (Lisbon), and tested with use of four cases of work (of the banks Rotterdam, Shanghai, Duisburg and Hamburg). From travel on the territory and for a variety of primary and secondary sources, the first part of the work is the proposed definition of seven processes of formation of the bank industry, identifying for each time period in which predominate, namely: 1 . The training building to building, 2. The structure of dock, street and storage; 3. The spontaneous growth on the road or rail; 4. The draft Industrial Company; 5. The general plan of the port in front of the city; 6. The industrial zoning; 7. The large industrial complex autonomous. The second proposal for a conceptual body made from an abstraction from a reading of the cases referred to the processes of transformation of the bank in the post-industrial period, and propose: A. The transformation to the scale of the proposed architecture; B2a. The draft of the big equipment of the bank; B1. The transformation of the company's industrial B2b. The transformation of industrial space as a new urban fabric; B2c. The project of public space frente-río C. The transformation of a river port of jurisdiction; D1. The special project; D2. The draft metropolis. In these eight processes of transformation was also possible to choose a set of urban dimensions that marked a common presence in the examples studied. The journey by the various parties and moments of the bank assumes that before most every instance is a case and each case study is different from others. The tour of Lisbon and the case of the four cases is working well, first of all, a journey through the different forms deformation and transformation of this area of industrial origin. The title and content of the two part of the investigation reflects that duality; âformasâ corresponds to the analysis of various examples in five different cases, each with its own characteristics, and âprocesosâ mark the attempt, which always involves an element reducer, to systematize these realities in a common service. With the definition of these common patterns â do not constitute an absolute datum or an array essential â, the processes of formation and transformation of the banks of the industrial period can be used to support reading this territory in other port cities of the river. As a working tool, this conceptual table becomes available to inform other banks, provided the following budget line, in its own abstraction, each port city river is a case where not all the processes occur and where that manifest find their own ways.