High-speed rail reshaping urban areas: Valencia Parque Central

High-speed rail reshaping urban areas: Valencia Parque Central

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

Spain

Valencia

Mediterranean corridor

high-speed rail

TOD

railway station

Since October 2010, Valencia has been connected to Madrid by the third radial high-speed rail axis. The city now intends to reach a nodal position within the network, thanks to its selected situation on the "Mediterranean corridor" project. The implementation of the AVE (Spanish high speed rail) reactivated Valencia Parque Central project, which aim is to transform disused railways into a park and to build a station and its tracks underground. AVE's implementation in Valencia is a major political issue at all scales. The institutions of Valencia's autonomous Community called for the AVE, which is supposed to boost tourism and regional economy, and to consolidate its position of outer harbour and beach of Madrid. The second issue concerns cities more directly. The realisation of a new railway station is an old project, but it is made possible, even necessary, with the arrival of the AVE. This project of a new station relies on an ambitious underground infrastructure, above which an urban park of 23ha and a business district should be created, giving the city a new centrality. Behind this project, there is a challenge for mobility at a metropolitan scale in Valencia. Parque Central concrete project is limited to the development of a business district in a section of the city, and remedial measures to improve the interconnection of networks.

Libourel, Eloïse

Building the urban futures, Transit-Oriented development

Building the urban future and transit oriented development (BUFTOD)

2012-04-16

ENG

conference proceeding

http://hal-enpc.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00734234

http://hal-enpc.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/73/42/34/PDF/Libourel_paper_maps_BUFTOD.pdf

Paris

France