On november 2010 the Municipality of Getafe and the Unesco Centre asked INTA to contribute to a forward looking analysis of the metropolitan process that affect the European territory.
The International Symposium on Sustainable Urbanism was remarkably rich in content and proposals.
... Mixing functions (employment, residential, entertainment, retail) can create commuting systems that operate in both ways, spreading activity over the area. Models where people live far from work are unsustainable. We can provide housing closer to workspaces and workspaces closer to housing. Flexible workspace, where facilities, such as video conferencing are made available, can be foreseen in spaces of interaction, or the “Fourth Urban Space” (Christer Larsson); spaces where life, work and public services come together [...]
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