Patxi J. Lamíquiz

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | UPM · Departamento de Urbanística y Ordenación del Territorio

Despite the significant role of alleyways in urban spatial configuration and accessibility as critical structures of urban infrastructure, there remains a noticeable gap in understanding their specific role in urban transportation policies. The main aim of the present study is to investigate the role of configurational accessibility of alleyways in...

Public urban spaces are vital settings for fostering social interaction among people. However, understanding how spatial layouts can promote positive social behaviors remains a critical and debated challenge for urban designers and planners aiming to create socially sustainable environments. Space syntax, a well-established theory and research meth...

Este estudio analiza las políticas relacionadas con la ciudad de proximidad en Barcelona, Castelló de la Plana, Pontevedra, Valladolid y Vitoria-Gasteiz, para identificar cómo han incorporado este principio en sus planes, estrategias y acciones y comprender los valores y limitaciones de cada tipo de plan (Agenda Urbana Española, AUE; Plan General d...

The International Congress on Proximity Planning (June 26 - 28, 2024) has presented original research papers that explore the thematic and empirical challenges and opportunities that arise in the application of proximity-based planning in cities. Proximity is a planning principle with a tradition of more than a century, recently revived by circumst...

Privacy is a dynamic process encompassing both the inclination towards and avoidance of engaging in social interactions, characterized by the interplay between individual identity and external stimuli. The concept of privacy doesn't entail complete isolation from others; rather, it entails managing the extent of interpersonal interactions. While th...

Although many studies are currently examining the city of proximity as a way to promote sustainable and environmentally friendly cities, few consider it meaningful to achieve an “inclusive” mobility model for people of all ages and abilities, including people with disabilities, children, or the elderly. This literature review paper focuses on the e...

This article seeks to analyze different city plans in terms of proximity and accessibility. A total of 6 highly-recognized pedestrian models were chosen to compare their inclusive micro-mobility measures, not only in international contexts (Paris, Melbourne or Portland); but also a closer look will be taken at Spain, as it has managed to present it...

Resumen La importancia de acceder a todos los servicios urbanos relevantes en menos de 15 minutos de viaje es fácil de entender, pero parece que, no por casualidad y debido a las restricciones de movilidad por la pandemia del COVID-19, ha cobrado por fin protagonismo en varias ciudades por todo el mundo. Si bien la idea de Carlos Moreno no es nuev...

Transit Oriented Development (TOD), as an integrated transportation and land use policy and practice, was given attention in recent decades to (re)formulate urban areas worldwide. Amongst different TOD planning dimensions at play in, the transportation design and policies tend to basically form the backbone of TODs, since a multimodal sustainable m...

Principles of sustainability defend compactness, density and diversity as main characteristics of the optimal development of cities. These factors support public transport efficiency, economic activity, accessibility to equipments and services, proximity and walkability of streets and social exchanges in open public spaces. The Covid-19 pandemic cr...

Land use mix is one of the cornerstones for urban sustainability, in opposition to functional segregation and zoning policies. Land use mix is a prerequisite for urban proximity dynamics, healthier lifestyles and public space vitality. However, methodological shortcomings to its measurement remain and are responsible for the unexpected weak associa...

This study seeks to systematically identify the most significant challenges for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in Developing Countries (DCs). At the same time, it attempts to analyze whether these are different from challenges in developed countries. For this purpose, relevant qualitative research was systematically reviewed through a Qualitati...

Desde Fernando de Terán, la historiografía del desarrollo urbano madrileño dio el protagonismo principal en primer lugar, durante el desarrollismo, a una versión bastarda del bloque abierto, luego, a partir del PGOU de 1985 a la manzana residencial periférica, pero, según Ramón López de Lucio, también, antes y después, a formas de transición entre...

Architects, urban designers, and city planners witness a contemporary lack of imagination regarding new urban form typolo-gies. Most proposals have swung between two well-defined extremes: the dense, traditional block and the strips/towers defined by the modernist principles. More recent yet distinctive proposals are rare, even as the challenges of...

El libro es un resultado del proyecto del Plan Nacional de I+D+i PT-2006/036-09ICCP, titulado “Influencia de las variables urbanísticas sobre la movilidad peatonal y recomendaciones consecuentes para el diseño de modelos urbanos orientados a los modos no motorizados: La Ciudad Paseable”. Su objetivo es ofrecer al lector análisis, argumentos y reco...

Although the recent housing boom & bust in Spain has triggered significant transformations in its urban fabric, the geographical dimensions of this economic phenomenon and its spatial impacts on the local urban structure have not yet been described in depth. Following the latest published data from CORINE Land cover (2012), this study undertakes a...

The rapid process of urbanization is affecting residents’ living patterns. Concurrently, shopping and consumption patterns are changing at what seems to be a constant rate. Recently, a look at retail centers would leave one to understand that these centers are by no means exempted from these changes. Retail centers, which initially held a more comm...

The Central District of Madrid, the Distrito Centro, has seen profound changes in planning and mobility in recent years. Some of the key strategies to improve the habitability of the district include pedestrianising major shopping streets such as Calle del Arenal, Calle de Fuencarral, Calle de las Huertas and Calle de Carretas, identifying a number...

With the aim of shifting towards a more sustainable urban transport model, cycling mobility is being promoted in many cities and, in consequence, Bike Share Systems have been the focus of attention in an increasing number of studies over the past years. However, we know very little about the impact of these BSS in cities beyond the station level. W...

A pesar de que España es, por delante de cualquiera otro de la OCDE, el país de los peatones, no se suele valorar bien el potencial del desplazamiento a pie ni su papel en la regeneración urbana. Además, se conocen poco las medidas a tomar para favorecerlo, más allá de ciertos lugares comunes como las peatonalizaciones o el templado de tráfico. Por...

El presente artículo reivindica la importancia de disciplinar el tema para los arquitectos y aporta evidencias de la observación de tres barrios madrileños. Se trata de ejemplos de distinto tipo y grado de maduración, desde el PAU de Las tablas a un barrio de bloque abierto, el de Santa Eugenia, pasando por el “nuevo ensanche” de Valdebernardo. dis...

Históricamente se ha dado una relación cíclica entre las mejoras en la red y servicios de transporte –que posibilitan el aumento de las distancias entre orígenes y destinos– y los cambios en la estructura y la forma de las ciudades. Este artículo se centra en los modelos de ciudad que tratan de favorecer una movilidad más eficiente, como son la p...

It is generally known that most benefits of good streets are intermediated and not inmediate, thus difficult to determine and to convey to the general public. Although the benefits of rebuilding “Arterial Streets” can be much wider, the political and financial costs of their refurbisment are also greater. Recent attemps such as “Paved with gold” sh...

The educational realm in Urban Planning needs a review because of the global challenges that human settlements will face in the near future. In this scenario, international boards of research call for the development of common frameworks of research, accreditation, and planning best-practices, that need to transcend the limits of local competences,...

El comercio en entornos de proximidad es un servicio básico para la población, con múltiples implicaciones para la ciudad, la vitalidad del espacio público y la equidad social. Este trabajo indaga sobre las posibilidades del concepto y las medidas de accesibilidad, para, en el actual marco normativo que regula la actividad comercial, poder llegar a...

The hypothesis of this paper is that some features of the built environment, particularly those concerned with the accessibility of the street network, could be associated with the proportion of pedestrians on all trips (modal split) found in different parts of a city. Quantitative analysis (bi-variate correlation and a multiple regression model) w...

New information and communication technologies (ICTs) are offering unprecedented opportunities and challenges for innovating in a collaborative way at the academic and research realm. With the purpose of taking advantage of these opportunities, a project called 'Parallel Virtual Workshop (PVW)' has been set in a Master's Program to pursue academic...

Among the different interchange design aspects, integrated land use and infrastructure planning is maybe one of the most problematic fields in practice, given that a joint transport and urban planning spills over the regular scope of action of interchange developers, whereas it involves the cooperation and agreement of various authorities. Not only...

Nodes is a European Commission R&D project aiming to build a toolbox to support European cities in the design and operation of new or upgraded public transport interchanges. NODES seeks to find the most innovative approaches to key areas in this arena such as design, ICT, management models, energy and environment. The Madrid Transports Consortium (...

Academic internationalization, professional orientation and multidisciplinary approach to handle complex urban problems are the three aims of Parallel Virtual Urban Workshops (PVW), a methodology developed at UPM using simple and low-cost information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Policies trying to increase walking within urban mobility modal split usually highlight the importance of the functional patterns and the environmental quality of the urban space as major drivers of citizens' modal choices. Functional characteristics would be mainly associated to an appropriate mix of land uses within neighbourhoods, whereas enviro...

These guidelines are one of the outcomes of a research program about the relationships between architecture, urban design and pedestrian mobility. The Department of Urban Planning of the School of Architecture, at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, developed this program during 2006-2008, while the Spanish Ministry of Public Works and Transport...

This report was prepared by a research working group of the International Transport Forum, composed of experts from 19 countries (including town and transport planners, sociologists, engineers, psychologists, architects and geographers) together with experts from the World Health Organization. The information on which the report is based was obta...

The research hypothesis for this Ph.D. Thesis is that some characteristics of the built environment, particularly those describing the accessibility of the public space network, could be associated with the proportion of pedestrians in all trips (modal split), found in the different parts of a city. The underlying idea is that walking trips are mor...

El articulo desarrolla una nueva metodologia de analisis, diagnosis y propuestas para la rehabilitacion sostenible del espacio público que aparece generosamente en los conjuntos residenciales de bloque abierto en muchas ciudades europeas. El espacio público, abandonado durante décadas, se convierte ahora en un espacio de oportunidad que sostiene ac...

Más allá de las conocida insostenibilidad del modelo de movilidad actual o incluso de sus externalidades medioambientales, el capítulo aporta una reflexión sobre otros aspectos menos conocidos como su inviabilidad por falta de espacio físico en la ciudad, la desigualdad que implica para los perfiles más vulnerables o la afección que tiene para el e...

SE TRATA DE LA PRIMERA GUIA EN ESPAÑA PARA ELABORAR PLANES DE MOVILIDAD SOSTENIBLE PARA CIUDADES. REDACTADA A PETICIÓN DE IHOBE, SOCIEDAD AMBIENTAL DEL GOBIERNO VASCO, COMO PIEZA CLAVE EN LA MITIGACION DE LOS EFECTOS MEDIOAMBIENTALES DE LA MOVILIDAD URBANA EN LA ESTRATEGIA VASCA DE AGENDA LOCAL 21

El objetivo del trabajo original, del que este informe es un resumen parcial, era el de proponer las bases científicas y metodológicas que permitieran definir y evaluar los efectos territoriales de las infraestructuras de transporte con control de accesos, básicamente, autopistas y ferrocarriles. Para ello se proponía, por una parte, realizar una s...

Normativa con rango de ordenanza municipal para el diseño de la Vía Pública de obligado cumplimiento en todos los planes y proyectos que desarrollen el vigente PGOU de Madrid. A su vez manual de diseño, que abarca todos los aspectos de la configuración de la vía pública desde el diseño en sección transversal a las intersecciones, el templado de t...

El trabajo propone una metodología de análisis del espacio urbano basada, por una parte, en una descripción objetiva de la realidad física y funcional del propio espacio, y por otra en una componente subjetiva: la imagen que de dicho espacio tienen un grupo de usuarios. Para la descripción de la realidad urbana se utiliza, entre otros, un índice de...

En marzo de 1996, se puso en servicio la primera agencia española especializada en la promoción de vehículos compartidos para desplazarse al centro de trabajo o estudio: el Centro de Viaje Compartido (CVC) de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Dirigido a proporcionar gratuitamente compañeros de viaje a conductores que deseen compartir vehículo,...