After a time in which planning seemed to be in a latency period, translated into the longevity of the validity of urban plans and their lack of adaptation to the reality of the present, derived from the scant consideration towards the technicians who draft them and long processing periods, at least in the Spanish case. It now seems that a common culture of territorial and urban planning is emerging in which there is a consensus of the issues to be discussed and their prioritization and the acceptance that urban planning times are long-haul and that it is necessary to think in long spaces of time to obtain results, beyond the tactical urbanism directed to the action in moments of crisis. Thus, methodologies, strategic lines and management models for the consolidation of the plans are made explicit.

This number presents the rise of issues such as green infrastructure facing territorial fragmentation that infrastructures and forms of settlement have given rise to, collaborative participation worked from different methodologies, which is no longer disregarded regardless of the scale of the work, from the small piece of urban design to the territorial scope, assuming more and more clearly the need for urban regeneration, the growth of the city over the city incorporating a greater emphasis on concepts such as efficiency, cohesion, compactness and complexity that had gradually been lost in the growth of our cities in an expansive, uncontrolled and unsustainable model.

The index begins with “Wildgarten Quartier (2009-2021), in which we are told about inclusive and democratic urbanism as an alternative to conventional planning models. The project was born from a Europan Contest and is presented to us from the garden as an urban support and from the idea of the contest to the subsequent management of the Plan. It is a 'regeneration project in Vienna, where the mixed use of typologies is interconnected with the green space. In this line also appears the "Urban Regeneration Area of La Puebla Norte" in Ponferrada, in which recurring themes such as the rehabilitation of buildings, accessibility or the improvement of facilities incorporates as an innovation the work methodology with a significant degree of definition.

"A plan for La Línea" is presented linked to the idea of Plan-Project, increasingly present in any scale of work. This plan combines urban scale actions for the development and management of the inherited city and the territorial scale, assuming the role of kneecap that this municipality has, a place between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. It is proposed as a consensual plan from the political-technical work with an important display of citizen participation in its dissemination and in decision-making. It is written with an important degree of detail and a great quality in the drawings.

Detail and quality of the drawing that can also be seen in “The model of the new General Plan of La Palma. From unsustainable expansion to regenerative containment ”, in which the title says it all, the different scales are worked out from the approach of integral urban regeneration to universal accessibility, the efficiency of water, energy and waste systems to provide prominence to the structuring capacity of green infrastructure. The theme of green infrastructure that also appears in the “Bucaramanga Public Space Master Plan (2017-2037)”, which once again the public space is the structuring axis of the plan, proposed as an environmental system and connector, a meeting place and condenser of centralities, analyzing in depth the edges as a connection between the urban and the rural spaces.

The article “26 Local Strategies, a Metropolitan Plan. The ECOM experience. Rosario, Santa Fe (Argentina)”, presents a project that aims to include the metropolitan problem in government agendas by proposing integration mechanisms. It starts from the need for participation of local governments in metropolitan planning, emphasizing the complexity of the construction of a metropolitan plan from the relationship of local planning and its integration in a broader scope. It is an ambitious project that once again proposes a participatory process and incorporates methodologies at different scales and an important issue: obtaining resources for the execution of projects.

With territorial intention also appears “The CULTA Plan of the province of Córdoba. Culture and territory. Potentialities of culture to redefine the rural environment”. The article explains a plan that lays the foundations for a strategic plan for the territorialization of culture, in the difficult task of relating the urban and rural areas, designing proposals for the cultural activation of the territory.

In the article “Regional Plan of the Tomine Reservoir (Colombia). Landscape of life and sacred value of nature”, the project is based on the need for functional connection of all with the ecosystem. The protection of water is proposed, stimulating the care of the environment and favoring rest and the contemplation of nature starting from an artificial infrastructure imposed on nature and its inhabitants, which in its day produced a social and territorial fragmentation. It is a plan with well-defined actions and with a distant horizon, since it is estimated to consolidate by 2040 a plan of strategic scope in the definition of six landscape action units that accompanies the Bogotá 2050 agenda.

The “Recovery of Caño De Hierro” is a project to revalue a rock formation from the design point of view, which considers four concepts from which the action is explained: History, landscape, geometry and materiality.

The article “Transformation of the Camí de Cabrianes. Notes on a regeneration project ”, has a more landscape content, aims to make accessible spaces on the edge of the Llobregat river, proposes that the reconversion of a road in coexistence with a promenade is possible, from de-construction, de-materialization, the discovery and re-appropriation, from the rehabilitation and re-integration of infrastructures and nature through a low intensity intervention.