Last updated: October 2021
The Park Jose Antonio Labordeta is the most extensive park in all of Zaragoza, consisting of municipal nurseries, botanical gardens, and areas for leisure and recreation. (Ref. 4) From 2006 to 2007 a process of citizen participation was started to collect ideas for the improvement of the park on its 75th anniversary. (Ref. 1) In 2010, the City Council of Zaragoza developed a Master Plan to document these ideas and to guide future management of the park. (Ref. 1) The interventions in the Master Plan include landscape improvement, park management, agronomic improvements, among others. (Ref. 1)
Source: Ref. 1
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Parks and urban forests
- Large urban parks or forests
- Botanical gardens
- Green areas for water management
- Sustainable urban drainage systems
Key challenges
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Green space creation and/or management
- Environmental quality
- Noise reduction
- Regeneration, land-use and urban development
- Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development
- Inclusive and effective governance (SDG 16)
- Inclusive governance
- Social justice, cohesion and equity (SDG 10)
- Social justice and equity
- Social interaction
- Health and well-being (SDG 3)
- Enabling opportunities for physical activity
- Creation of opportunities for recreation
- Cultural heritage and cultural diversity
- Preservation of natural heritage
- Protection of historic and cultural landscape/infrastructure
Focus
Maintenance and management of urban nature, Improved governance of green or blue areas
Project objectives
- Be a calm park with high-quality landscapes and gardens that allows users to be in contact with nature and perceive the different landscapes it contains: sonorous, chromatic, seasonal.
- Maintain and enhance the esteem that the citizens feel for it as a setting for collective experiences and personal ones.
- Recover the park grounds for pedestrians and those with alternative mobility, eliminating the circulation of private vehicles in the interior and limiting the parking zones inside the park.
- Improve the original ideas that formed the park while keeping its historic integrity.
- maintain and improve accessibility from its surroundings, including reducing speed or other measures reducing acoustic pollution
- conserve and promote the natural fauna that currently resides in it.
- Renew the vegetal base of the park given the antiquity of the same, planning it gradually by means of agronomic actions and proper selection of native species. (Ref. 1,2)
Implementation activities
Each of the zones mentioned in the plan (Paseo San Sebastian, jardin de Invierno, Jardin Botanico, La Rosaleda, El Cupresal) underwent processes of accessibility improvement, improvement to their gardens, and some changes to the water management/ system of watering. (Ref 1)
The proposed time frame for all of the interventions that the project includes is from 2010 to 2024. (Ref. 1, p.91)
Main beneficiaries
- Local government/Municipality
- Citizens or community groups
- Marginalized groups: People with functional diversities
Governance
Management set-up
- Government-led
Type of initiating organisation
- Local government/municipality
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Taskforce groups
- Consultation (e.g. workshop, surveys, community meetings, town halls)
- Citizen oversight (e.g. boards, advisory)
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
Ayuntamiento (City Council of Zaragoza) put forth the proposal and the initial funds for the intervention. (Ref1)
Materia Verde (Company) conducted study on ideas feasibility and this was reviewed by the Environment Agency, members of the Biodiversity Study Commission of the Local Agenda 21, and the Government of Zaragoza (Ref. 1)
Citizen participation in ideas to improve park (Ref. 1)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a national policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a local policy or strategy?
Yes
(Local Agenda 21 Plan (ref 1))
Financing
Total cost
More than €4,000,000
Source(s) of funding
- Public local authority budget
Type of funding
- Earmarked public budget
Non-financial contribution
Unknown
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Environmental quality
- Reduced noise exposure
- Water management and blue areas
- Improved stormwater management
- Green space and habitat
- Increased conservation or restoration of ecosystems
Economic impacts
- Unknown
Socio-cultural impacts
- Social justice and cohesion
- Improved access to urban green space
- Increased visibility and opportunity for marginalised groups or indigenous peoples
- Increased opportunities for social interaction
- Increased involvement of locals in the management of green spaces
- Health and wellbeing
- Gain in activities for recreation and exercise
- Cultural heritage and sense of place
- Improvement in people’s connection to nature
- Protection of historic and cultural landscape / infrastructure
- Increased sense of place identity, memory and belonging
- Increased appreciation for natural spaces
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts, Achieved impacts
Presence of formal monitoring system
Unknown
Presence of indicators used in reporting
No evidence in public records
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
References
1. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza. (2010). Plan Director del Parque Grande Jose Antonio Labordeta. [Document provided].
2. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza. (2017). Biodiversidad y Naturaleza: Parque Grande Jose Antonio Labordeta. [Not available in 2020].
3. Periodico de Aragon. (2014). El Parque Grande recibirá 200.000 euros de inversión. Available at: Source link. [Accessed: 2 September 2020].
4. ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE PARQUES Y JARDINES PÚBLICOS. (n.d.). Parque Grande, José Antonio Labordeta
Zaragoza. Available at: Source link [Accessed 2 September 2020].
2. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza. (2017). Biodiversidad y Naturaleza: Parque Grande Jose Antonio Labordeta. [Not available in 2020].
3. Periodico de Aragon. (2014). El Parque Grande recibirá 200.000 euros de inversión. Available at: Source link. [Accessed: 2 September 2020].
4. ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE PARQUES Y JARDINES PÚBLICOS. (n.d.). Parque Grande, José Antonio Labordeta
Zaragoza. Available at: Source link [Accessed 2 September 2020].
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