Santander: Hábitat Futuro

City model for Santander in 2055 based on regenerative urbanism

Planning City Adaptation and Resilience Biodiversity and Regeneration Care and Well-Being Industrialization and Innovation Near-Zero Emissions and Circularity
Date
2022
Place
Santander, Cantabria
Country
Spain
Authorship
LANDLAB, laboratorio de paisajes y Paisaje Transversal
Team
Miriam García García y Pilar Díaz Rodríguez (dirección); Iñaki Romero Fernández de Larrea (gestión de proyecto); Ibon Doval Martínez, Maria Sans Segura, Jordi Miró Rábago, Javier García Gallego, Pere Marieges Soucheiron, Carlos Barbero Durán (LANDLAB, laboratorio de paisajes); Cristina Rodríguez Ábalos, Ángela Peralta Álvarez, Guillermo Acero Caballero, Jon Aguirre Such, Jorge Arévalo Martín, Sonia Ortega García, Cristina Díaz Sánchez, Mireia Carrasco Ferri, Landa Hernández Martínez (Paisaje Transversal); Emilio Luque Pulgar (especialista independiente en sociología); Pedro Bravo Aguilar (especialista independiente en relato y comunicación); Ramón López de Lucio (especialista independiente en urbanismo); Juan Murillo Arias (especialista independiente en economía y movilidad); Daniel Díaz Martínez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid); Ícaro Obeso Muñiz, Felipe Fernández García (Universidad de Oviedo); Albert García, Oscar Cámara, Neus Agost, Lissette Campoverde, Martí Riera, Olga Barrachina, Alex Ivancic, Antoni Herena (Aiguasol); Víctor Viscor, Albert Sagrera, Amaia Larrañaga, Víctor Pesquera (Societat Orgànica), Marta Múgica Galán, Luis Suárez-Llanos Outeiriño (Volterra); Jose Luis Moura Berodia, Borja Alonso Oreña (SUM+Lab-Universidad de Cantabria); David Lorente Zaragoza, Tomoko Sakamoto (Spread); Dídac Sendra, Miquel Tomas, Juan Suay, Bernat Ivars, Carlos López (Quatre Caps)
Promoter
Ayuntamiento de Santander
Scope
Strategic Plan
Surface
35.677 km²
Media

Santander, Hábitat Futuro is the new city model for Santander. It is not a General Urban Planning Plan, but it is its Advance, a necessary and preliminary step for its preparation. The difference between one type of document and another is fundamental. A PGOU is a technical legal instrument that defines the intensities and uses of the city. A City Model is much more; it is the document that defines the city's roadmap for the coming years, in this case, until 2055, in relation to urban planning, but also to mobility, the set of green areas and open spaces in the city, economic activities, and the vitality of neighborhoods... so the City Model can and should be developed through more instruments than the PGOU.

Santander, Hábitat Futuro is a city model specifically designed for Santander based on a thorough analysis of its conditions, needs, and opportunities, and following the process of listening and citizen participation initiated in 2020 through #ParticipaPGS. It is, therefore, a model made by the city for the city.

Santander, Hábitat Futuro promotes the transformation of the city through regenerative urbanism: a model that restores balance to the urban territory and makes economic and social prosperity compatible with natural processes. With Hábitat Futuro, Santander will be a circular, sustainable, resilient, integrated, prosperous, vibrant, and inclusive city by 2055. A better city.

It is the first time in the history of Santander that a document of this nature has been created: A model made by the city for the city. It is based on the concept of regenerative urbanism. Regenerative urbanism seeks to restore balance to urban territories by designing systems that allow for their adaptation and transformation, shifting from a linear and extractive model to a circular and regenerative one. It implies a shift in the ecological, economic, and social models on which cities have developed and defines systems that do not consume available resources but generate others that ensure the compatibility between economic and social prosperity and nature.

It is articulated through 4 strategies:

1. Vital and inclusive Santander

2. Santander interconnected and integrated

3. Active and prosperous Santander

4. Sustainable and resilient Santander

This leads to 6 cross-cutting projects to begin the transformation of the city and 1 neighbourhood plan.


It is a model of a city that focuses simultaneously on the everyday environment of its citizens: their neighbourhoods and the city as a whole. All of this is done with an eye on the major global challenges and their impact on the city.