The town of Los Cristianos and tourism

View of the coast of Los Cristianos. Isla de Tenerife, 1920 Here is a selection of images of when tourism development began in the south of Tenerife, around the small fishing village of Los Cristianos.

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Olympic Venues

The last day 3 May the city of Rio de Janeiro was official competition for the design of the Masterplan of the Olympic Games host of the year 2016. Delimited area comprises approximately 118.000 hectares located west of the city where you develop 15 sports. Lo

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PGO de San Juan of the Rambla

Referring to the experience accredited by the CPPA team on urban planning, include the work done in reviewing the overall planning Tenerife municipality of San Juan de la Rambla. This revision in response to requisito of contar con un instrument ordenación ajustado a las necesidades y The characteristics

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The city deconstructed

Deconstruction of New York

French artist Armelle Caron makes a curious interpretation of the most important cities of the planet through what he calls “Taxonomy of city plans”. It consists of a series of drawings based on random sectors of various cities (Paris, Berlin, NY, etc.) which represents

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The development plans of municipalities canaries

Degree of adaptation of the General Municipal Plans to territorial legislation in late 2010. In red, municipalities adapted to the Guidelines; orange, adapted municipalities Territory Law; gray, other municipalities. Territorial legislation assigns archipelago General Land Use Plans, responsible for organizing

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Tianjin Eco-City

A new city "green" and "sustainable" has been raised 150 kms. Peking, designed to house the 350.000 residents and will be running in 2020. It was designed by the Singapore team, Shengbang Urban Planning Group and will have a tram public transport system, you expand solar energy supply green expanses.

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Jaime Lerner

An overwhelming character that transformed his city with the power of the word

Advance review of La Laguna PGO

In the month of November last year 2008, CPPA participated in the drafting of the revised General Plan of San Cristobal de La Laguna, specifically in the planning phase for Advancement of Full Adaptation to revised 1/2000 Territory Canary and Full Adaptation to the Law 19/2003

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Ecobarrios

After the interesting lecture given by Dr. Architect D. José María Ezquiaga in the College of Architects of Tenerife last day 22 January with the title "Planning and Sustainability: The need for balance "I decided to investigate a concept proposed in this paper; the ecobarrios.Definir this concept with some

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Axis Tegueste citizen

Tegueste is split in two by the road TF13, and the debate over its alternatives seemed castled. As editors we proposed PGO imagine what would happen if they deviate outside the village, and value issues and alternatives, without discarding, a priori, no possibility. Nowadays, the road has serious

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