ABSTRACT
Between 1990 and 2006 in Spain, municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants expanded by 58.28% in land area as a result of the housing bubble. This expansion provided the opportunity for an evolution in urban design practice, integrating a variety of theories about the city that had evolved separately during the previous decades related to urban morphology, housing typology, density and attention to open space. The paper assesses these factors in an exemplar of this trend towards integration, which is the last major urban intervention that took place in Huesca before the financial crisis affected Spain: Padre Querbes neighbourhood.
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Notes
1. The Corine Land Cover is an inventory of land cover according to 44 classes, based mostly on interpretation of satellite imagery. The inventory started in 1985 (reference year 1990) and has been updated in 2000, 2006 and 2012. Source: https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover [accessed 4 July, 2018].
2. Instituto Nacional de Estadística. http://www.ine.es/jaxiT3/Datos.htm?t=2875.
3. The Obra Sindical del Hogar was an institution created during the Franco dictatorship with the objective of trying to solve the housing problem through the construction and administration of public housing, which it then sold at a low price.
4. Team consisting of: Craig Verzone, Cristina Woods, Bernadino Espejo, Martin Gauthier, Nicole, Nancy Coulter, Amanda Bennett and Alayna Fraser.