Once we have published forty issues of Planur, it seems to have well established our editorial aim: to offer good praxis in a number of fields not so well known: territory, town planning, sustainability, urban and landscape design. We have published more than three hundred articles dealing with different ways of projecting and improving our world and the quality of life in our cities.

During the years many projects have arrived to Planur from the whole world with a special presence of Latin America. Many Works deal with different approaches to the way of understanding the uaused rban and territorial reality in different scales, something that leads us to understand that we are not not so different among the different countries because of the confluences in a language that improves from the initial phase of sustainability to another of regeneration , renaturalitation, resilience, not to resolutions based in the nature of green corridors. It is also remarked the influence of a better use of urban design , the integration and accessibility of the  always present public participation; something that the authors define in their projects as well as the ones that will appear in the future.

This summer we have been specially attentive to the climate change and their negative impact in the fires that not only have affected Spain but they have had global impact, a fact that leads us to go for prevention strategies together with the Good use of new technologies. When dealing with this global problem it is wise to remeber the good practices of the rural world in the old times.

In order not to repeat ourselves in this editorial in which the projects will speak about different ways of public participation- we must consider the plan of a way to help not to resolve our projects but to offer a way to lead a communitary life and solutions from the same community a fact that -even with a risk of being repetitive- lead us to the problema of fires. The solution to that problema will come from the communities in a risk situation, with a protection from the public services. The last facts show that the solidarity is an important fact if we want to live in a safe world and if we want to keep our landscape as an essential part of our welfare ,health and esthetic enjoyment.

The present issue offers a number of singular projects offering different imaginative solutions to a number of situations that are becoming common in the western world.

The Cité Gagarine was inaugurated in 1961 with  residential buildings with considerable ambition. The article remarks how the urban regenation can be planned in the creation of a mix and well communicated neidghborhood . The initial plan begins with the French urban structure -as happens with many others built during the decade of the sixties and seventies- that shows a high level of obsolescence which demand innovative and deep interventions. The project comes from an architectural contest and introduces the concept of agrocity that requires  the presence , in a 12 hectares area, of a multidisciplinar team that includes landscaping, bioclimatic engineering and water management. It takes the cooperative creation as a central element as a way of work that allows the consideration of an inclusive and solidary city planning in which 37% is public space and where 2,6 hs. contribute to the creation of a productive landscape being a reserve for a professional agriculture, this once considered more that a classical urban orchard and where the cirular economy has a leading role.

To talk about Ronda means to talk of an historical singular site of Spain. The works that is published in this issue has been rewarded by the Andalusian Urbanism Prize in 2025. It is a project that combines the defense of the historic tissue for their residents without renuncing to tourism -an activity that has a long existence in the city- incorporating sustainability, mobility, dwelling and weather adaptation criteria. It is a project where, considering the geographical characteristics of the city, the harmony of the landscape Will have a great relationship with a dialogue between modernity and tradition and the relationship between the external and the internal world. City planning is acompanied with a varied programm of urbal projects of different typologies.

In the Cabo Verde archipelago we are offered a complex project of 14 protected areas. It is a project that goes from the ordination and the substratum management to ecotourism and business plans as a way of development; to achieve that it is presented with an integrated metodology , more than the ordinary city planning, with a different work approach in each of its four islands.

A project in Dordrect, in Holland, talks to us of the continuous work that is being made in that country regarding the use of water. Water has always been a constant element in daily life, an element that is at the same time landscape and danger meaning something that requires some regulation. This project deals with a urban park that connects six historical pólders as well as sport facilities, natural areas, cultural sites and urban neighborhoods. The project is based in history and in the use of local materials neglecting uniform solutions , in a circular route of 10 kms. . It is designed as the green and blue heart of the city, considered as a structural element. The park, more than its spacial and ecological use, has a cultural element linked to the identity of a city that is part of a landscape project in a process of ever changing transformation until its completition in 2030.

Talking in a different scale and approximation, when referring to the uses of water, we have a project dealing with the recovery of an etnographical and hydraulic patrimony in two municipalities of the Siberia´s Biosphere Reserve , in Badajoz. In this case we deal with the intervention in thirteen different locations working with the memory, the hydraulic rehabilitation , improvement of the surroundings , urban planning and vegetation. It is a project that, like the last one that appears in this issue, shows how “a network of humble elements can reorganize the daily geography of a rural municipality”.

There is nowadays a project of enormous interest in Jerez de La Frontera, where the work is undertaken in rustic soil thinking in its energetic transition with the use of territorial planning. That is a problema that must be considered now beause the production and storage infrastuctures are multiplying the rustic soil in all the Spanish territory causing the disappearance of crops and changing the agrarian network, without a clear advantage for the territory beyond the capacity of welcoming of new habitants. One must pay attention to the input like that one and consider how it is posible to protect the cultural and productive landscape facing infrastructures with such an impact as eolic parks and solar orchards. That means clean and renewable energies but they must be regulated in an integral way and with reversibility warranties.

The regeneration of the Palma beach is presented as a transformation from  a tourist into a resilient landscape. The project was undertaken in the frame of the Plan of Recovery, Transformation and Resilient-Next Generation EU. It establishes the acceptance that the lack of connection between the sea front and the inland territory creates one of the main structural problems of the accepted touristic model. The proposal presents the Number 1 Phase of an integral process of weather adaptation and transition to a circular tourist model based in a strategy of reconnection, regeneration and decongestion offering a model that may be adapted to the resilient coast regeneration being able to answer simultaneously to environmental, social and economic challenges. The landscape is not longer considered as a passive background for tourism and becomes an active infrastucture of climatic adaptation and social cohesion.

The last project places us again in a rural contest, being also a small dimension project with a careful approach to the land. It can be considered as a continuity project adding new layers to its history. It talks to the fenced space as a territorial organizer. It establishes the limits between the road and the pedestrian traffic: it consists of a wall of variable height and density that can be a wall, bank, tree pit or a place to stay.

The issue is so completed once the summer holidays have already started. A good time to rest and reflect about the new stages of future issues of Planur-e.