Urban horticulture has widely spread in Madrid in recent years. Many of these urban orchards in the city are dedicated to children and school groups. For a commentary, see this post on ecosistema urbano’s website.
The Municipality of Madrid just approved the next General Plan (Plan General de Ordenación Urbana), expected to take effect in spring 2015. See this article on “El País” newspaper (in Spanish) for additional information.
The Kent State Forum on the City: BERLIN is taking place this Friday, November 22, 2013 from 10 am to 6:30 pm at Kent State University, Florence Program. Here’s the complete program for our symposium:
Iñaki Ábalos, director of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and chair professor at the Madrid School of Architecture, has been appointed curator for the Spanish Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. Ábalos proposes a critical strategy centered on the idea of the ‘Interior’: “There is no architecture without an interior. There […]