Despite the common destiny of those who inhabit the metropolitan area of Valencia, its history shows us a series of vicissitudes and pretensions not always well matched. From utopia to reality or the other way around, this activity combines four conversations in podcast format and two in situ tours, with the purpose of knowing its past, present and future that goes from the centralist Gran Valencia (1946) to the post-DANA recovery through the traumatic Plan Sur (1966), the forgotten Vilanova (1972), the democratic Consell Metropolità de l’Horta (1986) or the aborted Ley de Áreas Metropolitanas (2020).
TOURS
Free activity with prior registration. Transportation provided by the organization. Departure by minibus from UPV (in front of ETS Architecture).
Saturday, October 4, from 9 am to 2 pm. –La Vilanova, the satellite city that never was with David Estal (architect) and José Maria Azkárraga (photographer, disseminator, curator and professor of experimental and social didactics UV).
Saturday, October 18, from 9 am to 2 pm. –South Valencia, the city-region that is being reborn with Empar Puchades (president AVV Castellar-L’Oliveral), Raquel Teruel (member of the Local Emergency and Reconstruction Committee of Catarroja) and Pau Mendoza (architect).
CONVERSATIONS
Available in UPV Podcastduring the month of October 2025.
40-60s. València grande, whether it walks or not.
Fernando Gaja (Ph.D. architect UPV) and Rafael Temes (Ph.D. architect UPV)
Broadcast October 13 (UPV podcast)
60-80s. Of chimeras, monsters and dungeons.
Josep Vicent Boira (professor of human geography UV and commissioner of the Mediterranean Corridor) and Francesc Muñoz (professor of urban geography and director of the Observatori de la Urbanització UAB).
Broadcast October 20 (UPV podcast)
80-00s. In search of the lost project
Rosa Pardo (architect Ajuntament de Massanassa) and Joan Romero (professor human geography UV)
Broadcast October 27 (UPV podcast)
00-20s. A future for the pasto
Mireia Peris (architect-urbanist, head of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona AMB service) and Lorena Mulet (architect Per l’Horta and ArrelAires).
Broadcast November 3 (UPV podcast)
Interviews are conducted by David Estal and Pau Mendoza.