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The green ring of Vitoria-Gasteiz, a story of recovery and improvement of green spaces in Madrid

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Vitoria-Gasteiz is a city located in northeastern Spain and is part of the Basque Country. A little less than 15 years the authorities began to design a "green belt" around it, in order to restore and enhance the green areas peripheral to the city. Here, as in almost every city, were undergoing a process of gradual degradation.

In turn, this physical border was intended to draw a line the expansive growth of the development projects of the era, including the creation of new industrial parks, residential neighborhoods and new roads on rural and agricultural land, located on the outskirts of the city's traditional radio.

Image from the website www.vitoria-gasteiz.org

The green belt project includes a series of measures, ranging from the recovery of areas were once wetlands, their renaturation, the re-channeling of rainwater were flooding in urban areas, the introduction of animals such as deer, creating gardens for people of the 3rd age, guided walks, bicycle paths, among others.

We invite

to know more about this wonderful initiative that has succeeded on 20 October last Vitoria has been recognized by the European Community as "European Green Capital."

Click here and enter the page of the Green Belt.

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Photo: Alum and teachers of the Master Building energy efficient and environmental rehabilitation, UEM.

Francisca Jimenez, who is leading the BIOESPACIOS, has benefited from the Government of Chile, through CONICYT (National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research) and its system Scholarship grants Chile-call 2010 , for a Masters abroad.

Thus, from October 2010 until July 2011, the professional will reside in the city of Madrid, Spain to attend the Master " Efficient building and energy and environmental rehabilitation " , issued by the Senior Center Building , an institution under the UEM .

To date, this transfer has already taken place. From there he writes:

"(..) Today, a few days of arriving, I can say that this change of context brings many new . The most obvious is the time to delve into topics of interest , open new doors or ways of looking at the architecture, the phenomenon-and need-for the rehabilitation of cities and neighborhoods, there is the experience of achieving new learning , perhaps find answers to old questions ..

On the other hand, is in everyday life, the almost inevitable confrontation with what is happening here (Spain, Madrid, Europe) and what happens in Chile on buildings, cities, people, public space. There is much to share and discuss ..


hope, especially through the graphical information, to convey the emotion and feelings that are on here, seeing so many different realities sometimes and others, so strangely familiar (.. ) "

* Pictured: Madrid and the old town.