Arrecife Hosts Urbanism for Care Conference: 'The City as a Solution'

The event reflected on the role of urbanism and architecture in urban transformation, with a focus on Lanzarote's territorial reality.

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The Agustín de la Hoz House of Culture in Arrecife hosted the VIII Urbanism for Care Conference, titled ‘The City as a Solution’, which explored new ways to plan and inhabit cities.

The event, supported by the Urbanism Department of the Arrecife City Council, addressed the need to rethink urban models from an environmental, territorial, and human perspective.
Participants included urban ecologist Salvador Rueda Palenzuela, creator of ecosystemic urbanism and the 'superblock' concept, and architect Blanca Fajardo López, specializing in environment and cities, who offered complementary views on urban transformation.
Salvador Rueda presented the potential of ecosystemic urbanism to transform cities, promoting criteria such as biodiversity, energy efficiency, and citizen well-being, aiming for cities to contribute to environmental regeneration.
Blanca Fajardo, in turn, focused her intervention on the relationship between city, landscape, and territory, emphasizing the particularities of Lanzarote for urban development and the importance of environmental conservation.
Based on information from the official source: Ayuntamiento de Arrecife (02/11/2026)