SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 30 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Official College of Architects of Tenerife, La Gomera and El Hierro (COA) organizes this Thursday at 7:00 p.m. the conference ‘Data analysis and strategic urban planning’, whose objective will be to reflect on the challenge of implementing urban criteria in the Canary Islands inspired by economic, social and environmental sustainability.
This day, promoted by the Office of Urban Planning, Housing and Tourism, puts on the table a topic of vital importance: territorial and urban planning based on sustainable development objectives, a topic that, in recent months, has aroused a lot of social interest. on the islands, following the approval of large projects and urban developments.
The COA considers it “fundamental” to have the participation of professionals who are working in this line and who transfer their experience in this field, both to professionals and to society in general.
The presentation will be given by the architect Rodrigo Vargas, graduate in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and Master in Urban and Territorial Development, current editor of the Local Action Plan for the Implementation of the Spanish Urban Agenda in Candelaria, a pioneering model, based on data analysis and urban strategic planning that will be applied in a municipality whose characteristics have made it an environment that combines tourism and residential development.
Vargas has a long history in projects marked by urban cooperation, such as the one developed in his professional stage in Angola, where he launched models of urban planning, social housing and environmental consulting.
In addition, in 2019 he joined the Barcelona Urban Ecology Agency team as an urban planning technician, according to a note from the College.
This conference aims to continue disseminating the criteria contained in the Spanish Urban Agenda (AUE), a strategic document, which, in accordance with the criteria established by the 2030 Agenda, the new United Nations Urban Agenda and the Urban Agenda for the European Union, pursues the achievement of sustainability in urban development policies.
This marks a new line to follow that constitutes a method of
work and a process for all the actors, public and private, who intervene in cities and who seek equitable, fair and sustainable development from their different fields of action.
In addition, it includes a Decalogue of Strategic Objectives that display, in turn, a total of 30 specific objectives and
291 lines of action, all from a broad vision that includes all towns and cities regardless of their size and population, under the triple prism of economic, social and environmental sustainability.
