The members of the Instituto Universitario de Urbanistica can form and join research groups in accordance with the regulations of the University of Valladolid. Currently, the following Recognised Research Groups (GIR) of the University of Valladolid have a significant presence of members of the Institute (including their coordinators):
Planificación Territorial y Urbanística
(Urban and Territorial Planning)
OBJECTIVES
- Establish and experimenting new methodologies in the field of urban and regional planning.
- Increase knowledge on European planning and urban processes in Europe.
- Define analysis methodologies territorial transformation processes developed at European level.
- Spreading, in the field of third cycle, knowledge about urban and territorial planning.
RESEARCH LINES
- Innovative techniques and tools applied to territorial and urban planning.
- Historic town centres and consolidated city: quality of urbanization and sustainable urban models.
- Housing and quality of life in cities.
- Landscape and regional planning.
ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP:
CITERIOR – Ciudad y Ordenación del Territorio
(City and Regional Planning)
OBJECTIVES
- Promote and coordinate research of a consolidated team of teachers simultaneously members of the Department of Geography and Urban Planning Institute of the University of Valladolid, primarily oriented process analysis and dynamic urban and territorial; the study, proposal and evaluation of urban policies and models of municipal management and local governance.
- Become permanent observatory of urban policies in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American cities, by constantly adopting of a comparative analysis which is based on network cooperation with foreign researchers approach.
- Analysis and diagnosis of territorial and urban dynamics, instruments of strategic planning, urban planning, regional planning and local development; policy instruments and urban management in the development and cohesion of the local-municipal life and urban competitiveness, in specific areas such as bases: social integration (social facilities and other elements of dotacional system whole), urban sustainability policies and development of Local Agenda 21 industrial land; transport infrastructure high-capacity spaces logistics activity and intra-urban mobility; recovery policies of historic centers, public space recovery and rehabilitation of the built heritage; tourism policies and planning of tourist areas; programs covered in intercity cooperation.
RESEARCH LINES
- Urban Heritage.
- Tourism policies and planning of tourist areas.
- Urban policies; town planning; management of economic activities.
- Regional Planning; Infrastructures and transport.
ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP
- Jesús García Araque
- José Luis García Cuesta (GIR coordinator)
- Maria Esther Gil Álvarez
- Ignacio Molina de la Torre
- Henar Pascual Ruiz-Valdepeñas
- José Prada Trigo
Documentación, análisis y representación del patrimonio arquitectónico
(Documentation, analysis and representation of the architectural heritage)
OBJECTIVES
- Study, analysis and graphic documentation of the architectural heritage of Castilla y León and neighbouring regions.
Representation and graphic survey (by means of plans, notes, drawings, photographic restitution, photogrammetry, etc.) of the buildings and urban complexes under study. - Analysis of buildings: historical, typological, study of interventions and subsequent alterations, state of conservation, proposals for intervention, etc.
RESEARCH LINES
- Documentation and graphic representation of the architectural heritage in Castilla y León and neighbouring regions.
- New photogrammetric techniques applied to the analysis of architecture and its representation.
- Documentation and graphic analysis of popular architecture..
ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP
- Marta Alonso Rodríguez
- Eduardo Antonio Carazo Lefort (GIR coordinator)
- Noelia Galván Desvaux
- Víctor Antonio Lafuente Sánchez
- Fernando Linares García
- Daniel López Bragado
Mundo rural
(Rural world)
OBJECTIVES
- Geographical study of the rural environment, paying special attention to that of Castilla y León.
- Study of the economic, social and environmental structures and processes in rural areas.
- Elaboration of proposals for land-use planning.
RESEARCH LINES
- Rural development.
- Economic activities in rural areas.
- Agricultural policies.
- Natural resources and environment.
- Settlement structure and socio-demographic dynamics in rural areas.
ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP
- Eugenio Baraja Rodríguez (GIR coordinator)
- Daniel Herrero Luque
- Luz María Martín Delgado
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