Walk 2 | Badia del Vallès (Barcelona Metropolitan Area)

IDEAS FOR A FUTURE BADIA “VIVID BADIA” ROUTE

April 27th 2018, starting at Pl. Major 15:00 - 17:00h.

Can you imagine how Badia could be in a few years? Can you imagine being able to improve it? All the people who have participated in this project are convinced of this and we would like to invite you to take a walk to share the different ideas we have had and the proposals that we have built together to improve our municipality.

This trip will begin with the visit to some internal spaces (1), to discuss about their potencial to revitalize and attract new uses to the public space. We will then visit a community garden (2), which is maintained and managed with the involvement of the neighborhood.

Afterwards, we will learn about the patrimonial value of the urban art of our municipality (3), before heading to the Sec river (4) to see its importance as a natural axis and the possibility of improving metropolitan connexions.

We will finish our trip by thinking about the possibility of generating a new center of activity with the transformation of the River Sec Front, with the creation of a new commercial axis (1).

We hope you enjoy your trip!

Come to the exhibition at Plaรงa Major to better know all the proposals and give your opinion about Badia Action Plan!

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INTERNAL SPACES The internal spaces between buildings allow a great number of different uses, and can contribute to reclassify and attract new activities at the public space. We find public spaces adjoining pedestrian axes, commercial axes and internal spaces. They can host new activities and uses, with spaces and gardens taken care of and used by the community or associations of neighboring communities. What do you think are the best uses for these spaces?

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COMMUNITY GARDENS Community gardens are alternative ways of managing public space, based on co-management and citizen responsibility. They can be a way of encouraging citizen participation, especially for young people, because of the attractiveness of knowing what is related to the gardens and being a space for urban artistic creation. How do you think that citizenship can be more actively involved? Do you think that it should be included as a right and obligation of the neighbourhood communities?

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URBAN ART HERITAGE Graffittis represent a cultural heritage in Badia that are to be appreciated as our contemporary artistic heritage, especially as the expression of young pepole. What other public spaces in Bahia have works of art, sculptures or art demonstrations carried out by the people themselves? What life should graffiti have? How can we manage these mural paintings so that other people from the city can identify themselves?

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METROPOLITAN CONNEXIONS AND NATURAL AXIS Badia is disconnected from its metropolitan environment by infrastructures (C-58, AP7,Rodalies) without having direct access to them. The Sec River is also an important space that generates a natural axis in Badia where community gardens are being held. The future enlargement of Cerdanyola highway and the new metropolitan role of this pedestrian axis will transform this area. What would be the best way to use the environment of the river? How can we improve metropolitan connexions?

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NEW COMMERCIAL AXIS A new commercial space near the Sec River will generate a new door to Badia. Permeable ground floors hosting commercial activities and footbridges with Burgos and Oporto streets, will boost its connection with the sport and commercial zone.

What relations should be created between the parking lots, the commercial areas and the public spaces? Do you think the connection between Rodalies and the municipality is necessary?

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BADIA DEL VALLÈS ACTION PLAN The Action Plan has developed strategies for improving Badia del Vallès related to the management of its public space. The Central Debate Group, made up of neighbors, members of the City Council and the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, made a diagnosis of the situation to identify challenges from which establish the following strategies:

A. CONNECTIVITY AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REGION - New connections N-S Barberà- Badia- Autònoma with a new bridge over the C-58.

- Eliminate the current road to Cerdanyola del Vallès.

- New connection E-W Sabadell - Barberà - Cerdanyola with a bridge over the AP-7.

- New tram line Sabadell- Barberà- Badia - Autònoma - TGV- Sant Cugat.

- New pedestrian connection N-S Barberà train station - Joan Oliver park - Sec River with a new underpass underneath the C-58.

- New commercial structure Av. Burgos - Sec River - IKEA. - New FFGG station and a new footbridge next to IKEA. - Metropolitan path along the Sec River.

- Improveme the protection against noise pollution of C-58 and AP-7

D. SHOWCASING THE CULTURAL AND NATURE HERITAGE - Showcase the heritage trees - botanical route.

- Showcase the original farmhouse remaining.

- Place value on the water resource.

- Showcase and boost the urban art heritage.

- Showcase the community gardens.

- Healthy route along the Sec river.

C. INTENSIFY AND PROGRAMMIING THE USE OF PUBLIC SPACE - Programming the functional area for the inter-municipal axis.

- Programming the functional area for the commercial axis.

- Programming the functional area for the pedestrian axle.

- Programming the functional area for the natural axis.

- Programming the internal public spaces.

- Erradicate the architectural barriers of public spaces.

- Facilitate the ground fllor modification to foster the integration with the public space.

- Inclusive playgrounds.

- Urban agriculture and fruit trees planting.

- Public spaces linked with public facilities.

- Mediation commitee.

- Programs to increase citizenship and social community.

- Recover the space now used as orchards.

- Improve the waste collection.

D. STRUCTURE OF MOBILITY - Sequentially redo the internal distribution street surface and pavement.

- Sequentially redo the shared space streets.

- New pedestrian connection E-W Sec river. Porto - Oviedo street - Illes Balears park.

- Improve pedestrian connection E-W Sec river- Bètica street - Cornisa Bètica park - C-58 park.

- Programme to promote a more efficient use of private mobility (car-sharing, co-ownership, etc.)

- Implement blue and/or green parking spaces through the municiaplity.

- Construction of new parking lots near the city entrance, with spaces for residents.

- Programme to promote the bicycle (parking spaces, co-ownership, bike-sharing, etc.)

- Rationalization and improvement of the public transport network.

IMAGINA BADIA is an URBACT project, an initiative of the European Union to devise innovative and sustainable solutions to the economic, social and environmental challenges of European cities.

The result of this project is the “Local Action Plan of Badia del Vallès”, a document that proposes strategies and actions to be developed in the coming years to transform the municipality and improve the quality of life of all its inhabitants.

This document, which includes the proposals made, has been prepared for the discovery routes carried out on the festive day of April 27, 2018, with the presence of technicians from the cities participating in the URBACT program.