This research, which has been nominated River Landscapes:
The city of Valencia and the River Turia. Methodology of
intervention in urban riverbeds, has the specifi c mission
to address a comprehensive study of the historical, social
and morphological Turia River as it passes through the city
of Valencia, and direct current involvement in what might be
called generically their new urban landscapes considering the
recently built gardens in the old Turia riverbed as the origin and
expression of these landscapes. The program’s main objective
is to obtain results quantifi ed and verifi ed, that after being
expressed in various documents, allowing immediate future
urban developments especially guide future intervention
aimed at potential open spaces, both urban and suburban, in
specifi c assessment and environmental impact. An exhaustive
study, initially expressed in a comprehensive compilation of
data, alluding to both the history and morphology of the old
bed of the Turia and the current urban environment associated
with it, their social interactions, their evaluation by citizens
expressed through the design of surveys and its relation to
other green spaces of recognized interest, will learn more
about the real involvement of the old riverbed of the Turia in
the expression of the current city, revealing their true potential
in the face of their use, under various considerations in the
development of future city.