Burgos Master Plan
Urbanistic Tools and Proposals for a Midsize City in Spain: Culture and Tourism Burgos is a Spanish city with about 170,000 residents, located in the autonomous community of Castile and Léon, approximately 250 kilometers north of Madrid and surrounded by an extremely sparsely populated landscape that is Spain’s breadbasket. The AVE Line Madrid-Paris Additionnally to linking Burgos to the European high speed train network the AVE connection will bring the city closer other Spanish cities: Madrid, Bilbao and Valladolid, etc. The Arrival of the AVE in Burgos The arrival of the AVE will be important to the city’s structure: the new rail tracks will run outside the city and the new train station will be located on the periphery of the present urban area and the existing tracks will be turned into a boulevard. This new street, which crosses the entire city, will enhance the qualities and value of its adjacent neighbourhoods. The Task The task given to Herzog & de Meuron was to give form to this urban planning transformation in the wake of this historical infrastructure project. We were asked to adapt the urban plan to the new circumstances.
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