Parceling project
Introduction
Parcelization is the simultaneous or successive division of land into two or more new independent parcels, or undivided shares of the same. If this division is carried out with the manifest or implicit purpose of urbanizing or building them totally or partially, it is an urban parceling. In this case, the resulting lots or parcels have dimensions, enclosures), accesses or other characteristics similar to those of urban parcels.
Uncontrolled parceling
In 1948, number 1 of the Gran Madrid bulletin was published, including a work titled General Planning of Suburbs, where its author exposed the defective control system that had allowed uncontrolled and incongruous parcelling beyond the limits set for the ordered expansions.[1]
Madrid, after the Spanish Civil War, experienced significant growth without the authorities being able to control and direct. Many immigrants left the countryside to settle in the city.[2].
According to the Our Common Future report, better known as the Brundtland Report (1987), Sustainable Development is “that which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The concept of Sustainable Development involves the recognition of the need to achieve harmony between economy, environment and society and implies the search for formulas of balance, requiring changes at all levels, from institutional to personal.
Although, a priori, they may seem unconnected concepts, Urbanism has a lot to do with Sustainable Development. And the urban growth that the cities in which we live are experiencing requires the application of control measures that guarantee the quality of life of citizens, in addition to avoiding the appearance of illegal growth. For this reason, the urban planning of cities affects all residents equally, since it is a variable that directly and seriously affects the natural environment in which we operate.
The proliferation of illegal constructions on rural land at the end of the sixties directly affects ecological sustainability, since it generates notable imbalances between properly urbanized spaces and areas in which substandard housing abounds and in which the absence of infrastructure causes health, service provision and even security problems.