Masterplan Valladolid

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Name	Masterplan Valladolid
Place	Valladolid
Country	Spain
Author(s)	Richard Rogers & Associates
Completion	still in progess
Client	Valladolid Local Council
Project costs	626 M€

Rationale: Why is this case interesting?

Valladolid finds itself in a deep urbanistic transformation. It is proposed the chance of thinking of the city in a very different scales.

Four big topics are openned to discuss about:

Growing Formules | Urban nucleus Integration | Sostenibility Idea | Environmental Strategies

This project is based on the Growth of the city of Valladolid as a 'compact city' with dense and also compact growing satellites. That means to be far from the 'diffuse city' growth process from another cities.

Author's personal background

The city has always had the same problem: train railway. This physical barrier divides the city in two parts(east and west), nowadays without a good communication between them. Hidding down the train railways should activate the fluency.

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Who initiated the project and why?

Richard Roger's team and Luis Vidal, spanish associated architect. They gave the project to eh High Speed Society in 2003, including several city areas to be modify. Reconnecting and Regenerating Valladolid city centre, Spain, by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Vilady Asociados for Valladolid Alta Velocidad, S.A. Of this city masterplan, the jury admired the focus brought to bear on a generic urban problem – the splitting of a town by natural and man-made barriers. The masterplan provides layers of connection and amenities which transform the city and its environs

When was public participation most intensive?

The same year a two months public information period was openned. Modification or complaints were accepted.

Which participation tools have been applied?

On which level of participation?

Reusing old areas of train station in order to create and encourage new communications and living areas. Mostly the hidding down of the train railways in order to organize better the access to the city bus/train stations. New movility strategies. Landscape and environmentalism. New sustainable building rules.