The Bay of Pasaia is one of the highest heritage value portside cultural landscapes in the Basque Country, Spain. In order to understand the factors that have led to the current complex configuration, this study traces the historical development of this landscape. It analyzes economic and social dynamics that led to transformations of the historic areas, port, and natural environment, and documents the remaining historical traces and heritage elements that have resulted from this interaction in a GIS database. Following the recommendations of the HUL Approach and the Valletta Principles, three historical periods have been identified, which bear similarity with other port areas around the world. The results of this study are expected to serve as a basis for future urban regeneration plans and heritage enhancement strategies.

This article seeks to advance understanding of urban space that enables the emergence of “life between buildings,” that is, urban environments capable of acting as appropriate settings for caring for the communities that inhabit them.To this end, the study focuses on the analysis of in-between spaces, understood as the spatial realm located between the private sphere of the dwelling and the public sphere of the city, encompassing both physical and social dimensions. This article specifically aims to deepen the quantitative understanding of the social dimension. Accordingly, the goal is to develop an objective model capable of identifying the degree of in-between character present in urban space.The proposed model consists of two steps that enable the identification of in-between spaces. The first step comprises an activity-mapping methodology aimed at identifying the social and use-related characteristics that define in-between spaces. The second part consists of a set of indicators that allow the in-between character of a space to be determined based on the data collected through the mapping process.This tool enables the assessment of in-between character within urban space. Measuring the level of in-between character of a given space is useful for identifying the types of settings in which relationships that enrich community life are generated. Understanding the contexts in which these interactions occur facilitates the definition of spatial planning strategies capable of generating appropriate gradients in the physical environment, as well as the improvement of existing residential developments through a more suitable provision of public space.

This article advances the understanding of urban spaces that enable the emergence of “life between buildings”, understood as South European environments capable of supporting care, social interaction, and community life. The study focuses on in-between spaces, defined as spatial realms located between the private sphere of the dwelling and the public sphere of the city, and characterized by both physical and social dimensions. Specifically, the article addresses the quantitative assessment of their social dimension by developing an objective model to identify the degree of in-between character present in urban space. The proposed model comprises two complementary stages. The first consists of an activity-mapping methodology designed to record the social and use-related characteristics that define in-between spaces. The second establishes a set of indicators that determine the in-between character of each space on the basis of the data collected through this mapping process. By measuring the level of in-between character, the model helps identify the types of urban settings in which relationships that strengthen community life are generated. This knowledge can support spatial planning strategies aimed at producing appropriate privacy gradients and improving existing residential environments through a more suitable provision of public space and enhancing the everyday habitability of nearby urban fabrics.

Adaptive reuse of post-industrial heritage is often studied through technical performance, formal intervention strategies, or decision-support models. While these approaches clarify important aspects of reuse, they give limited attention to how projects evolve through the combined effects of architectural decisions, governance arrangements, financing mechanisms, policy instruments, social programs, and inherited fabric. This paper examines adaptive reuse as a time-structured project trajectory. It applies a hybrid methodology combining within-case reconstruction and comparative cross-case analysis to seven European projects in Brussels, Essen, Rotterdam, San Sebastián, Florence, Vienna, and Barcelona. The cases are analyzed across six dimensions: Asset & Context, Governance & Finance, Circularity, Social & Cultural, Policy & Design, and Outcomes & Transfer. The comparison shows that adaptive capacity depends on the alignment of governance, project time, and intervention strategy. Governance determines who can revise decisions and under what conditions; adaptation time is produced through funding horizons, approval procedures, institutional continuity, and civic or public stewardship; and strategies of retention, replacement, reversible insertion, and incremental occupation distribute future risk differently across project phases. From this synthesis, the paper extracts ten conditional lessons that frame adaptive reuse as configuration knowledge: transferable insights whose relevance depends on the interaction among governance capacity, temporal sequencing, inherited fabric, financing, policy support, and social objectives. The paper argues that knowledge transfer in adaptive reuse should be understood as disciplined translation across comparable constraints, not as the replication of models, rankings, or best-practice templates.

When students in Architecture School reach the fifth year, they are already tired; they think that in urban planning subjects they are always told about similar questions that they do not fully understand or control; and above all thery are thinking about finishing their degree and getting to work, usually outside the urban planning field. In this context, this academic year 22-23, the subject of Territory and City of the 21st Century has taken on a double challenge; establish academic content that guides reflection on the needs of the territory and the city of the 21st century and motivate students in terms of urban planning, seeking to rescue a little of the lost hope. The result has been a subject where teaching has been implemented seeking to be elastic; a successful teaching experience that we want to show at JIDA 2023. Cuando el alumnado de la Escuela llega a quinto curso ya está cansado; piensa que en las asignaturas de urbanismo siempre se le cuentan cuestiones similares que no acaba de entender bien, ni controlar; y sobre todo está pensando en acabar su grado y ponerse a trabajar, habitualmente, fuera del ámbito urbanístico. En este contexto la asignatura de Territorio y Ciudad del Siglo XXI este curso 22-23 ha asumido un doble reto; establecer los contenidos académicos que guíen la reflexión sobre las necesidades del territorio y la ciudad del siglo XXI y motivar al alumnado en cuanto al urbanismo, buscando rescatar un poco de la ilusión perdida. El resultado ha sido una asignatura donde se ha implantado una docencia que se ha caracterizado como elástica; una experiencia docente exitosa que se quiere mostrar en JIDA 2023.