Espacio Municipalista requires that planned urban expansions meet Ecocity standards

Espacio Municipalista poses the first test in the Las Viñas stretch.

From Espacio Municipalista – EMT they want new expansions and envisaged growth areas for the future PGOU to progress towards a “compact and sustainable city”, planning to develop neighborhoods that comply with “eco-city principles”.

It is “also an opportunity for citizens to have large green spaces and pedestrian areas between the blocks of apartments”, they say, and they propose to start thinking about this concept in the new developments in the Alcañiz motorway area, in the sectors of the Las Viñas extension, where the blocks will finally be built in the nearby part from the highway.

Eco-cities are areas of a city that are designed according to environmental standards. These neighborhoods are a way to “bring cities closer to sustainable models” by designing energy-efficient buildings that run on renewable electricity, pedestrianized public spaces and large green spaces for community relations. It is therefore a layout that allows citizens “a greater relationship with the environment”, which requires a “radical change in urban planning”, as they point out from Espacio Municipalista – EMT.

The training states that Emma Pogue recently indicated that the city must continue to grow internally within the surrounding road and fill existing pockets of land to achieve a “friendly city, with wide streets and garden areas”, and in this sense the municipalities believe that steps must be taken, before they are available They have the opportunity to redesign the Las Vinas expansion to take the first steps in this “friendly, green and sustainable” model.