By collating all those cartographies the three proposed lines of action raised: an integration axis (from Cuatro Caminos to Embajadores), from which the strecth between Alonso Martinez and Lapavies was developed (its character is labeled by programs and people); secondly, a green arc that would connect Parque del Oeste with Retiro, with a mainly naturalistic attribute; and finally, a second but vertical Gran Via, with a connecting character.
[1] (Editors’ note): Pedro Bidagor Lasarte (1906-1996) was a Spanish urbanist. He developed the Plan General de Ordenación de Madrid (General Urban Plan of Madrid) that was approved in 1946. Structured into twelve sections, it addressed all the major issues affecting the city: the symbolic value of the capital for the new regime, the interventions in the centre, the expansion of the city, the industry, and the absorption of the municipalities near Madrid which would become satellite towns, promoting the cellular growth of the city. [2] (Editors’ note): Eduardo Mangada Samain (1932) is a Spanish architect and politician: he has served as an advisor on urbanism and territorial policy for the city of Madrid. He was responsible for the General Urban Plan of Madrid of 1985. The Mangada Plan was not a plan for growth but to transform the city through acupuncture techniques: the main objectives were the preservation of the urban core from decay, the development of subsidized housing programs occupying the existing interstices in the city, and the redefinition of urban access by emphasizing public and limiting private transportation.
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