Abstract
The new legal framework (Act 8/2013) offers intervention possibilities in the housing sector at both the local and regional levels. If not implemented at these levels, a golden opportunity to confirm the possible results of this new law on today’s largely obsolete building sector will be missed, especially considering that at this very challenging time stimulating political and investment measures is of vital importance. Examining the experience in Zaragoza, we propose some management formulas to promote refurbishment and urban renewal: support during the very first stages of the process, the creation of mixed (public-private) entities, and the securing of European funding.
Highlights
The new legal framework (Act 8/2013) offers intervention possibilities in the housing sector at both the local and regional levels
Since four years have passed, and with a bit of insistence, provocation and regret, I introduce the final and prescriptive portion of my talk, given at different forums over the last few years, with a statement/wish: “In Spain, we most definitely must move beyond theory and experimental practices to widespread, systematized refurbishment practices, in line with urban and sustainable criteria applied to our sizeable wealth of existing building assets”
We have found ourselves “stuck” for two or three years, at a point where there is a great consensus regarding the diagnosis identifying the need for a new model governing our country’s urban practices
Summary
El 30 de abril de 2010 en el Congreso Sustanaible Building Conference SBMAD10, celebrado en Madrid, sobre «Edificación Sostenible, Revitalización y Rehabilitación de Barrios», iniciaba mi intervención en el mismo, con la siguiente pregunta-declaración:. Nos encontramos «atascados» desde hace dos o tres años, en un punto, en el que hay un gran consenso en el diagnóstico (y esto es muy positivo), sobre una situación caracterizada por la necesidad de un cambio de modelo en los usos urbanísticos de nuestro país. Hemos sido capaces de iniciar los primeros pasos en esa nueva dirección (y esto es también positivo, pero no suficiente), pero somos incapaces, al parecer, como sector, de proporcionarnos un marco normativo y económico, que nos permita pasar de los experimentos aislados, a una situación más estable, que atraigan la inversión económica privada y pública a estas tareas. “In Spain, we most definitely must move beyond theory and experimental practices to widespread, systematized refurbishment practices, in line with urban and sustainable criteria applied to our sizeable wealth of existing building assets”
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