New everyday landscapes. The access to intermediate cities as an opportunity

Abstract

The periphery of the industrial cities has not resolved the transit between urban and rural landscapes, and today it appears as a disorderly place without references. In this scenario, the infrastructures for driving access to cities serve as support for many of the new forms of urbanization that have been transforming our territory for decades.
This presentation deals with the urban landscapes associated with these growing environments, which are the everyday landscapes of all those who move in a city whose functions are increasingly dispersed. The work is positioned from a sensitivity to the periphery and understands the main roads as the public space from which these new urban growths are read in a massive way today.
We have studied the middle Andalusian cities of interior, which still maintain their identity associated with the landscapes of the historic city. However, in the last decades the weight of periphery landscapes, fragmented and less coherent tan those, has degraded in many cases the overall images.
The potential of Access. In the same way that the enhancement of the architectural heritage ennobles the centers of medium-sized cities, the enhancement of the landscape of the periphery and the environment, in which elements of the systems of exploitation of the land can be appreciated, looks at natural accidents, monuments or in general the surrounding non-urbanized landscapes, would serve to reinforce the local image and identity.