Ciudad Real Activa: Territory, Ecosystems and Resilience (CRATER)
PRTR Call for Proposals Project
CRATER’s objective is to complete and consolidate the urban and peri-urban network, which, by connecting all citizens with areas of great natural, geological and cultural value in the city’s surroundings, serves as an ecological corridor for the improvement of biodiversity in the urban environment and as a strategy for thermal mitigation.
Line of action:
Urban environmentsStatus:
En ejecuciónLocation:
Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha)Geographic scope:
EspañaExecution date:
2023Duration:
01/08/23-29/12/2025Total budget:
3.235.695,67€Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:
3.073.910,89€Ciudad Real is the Spanish provincial capital where the temperature has risen the most in the last 50 years, 3.6ºC, and will rise the most in the coming years. CRATER is a project that will transform Ciudad Real into a city adapted to the great challenge of reducing the heat island effect and to connect it all with green axes that improve biodiversity and active mobility. This network of green axes will connect the city center with the main points of geological (volcanic) and natural interest in the surrounding area. Ciudad Real’s IV network will not only serve as a basis for social integration and active mobility policies, but will also become an ecological corridor capable of enhancing biodiversity in the urbanized environment and regulating hygrothermal variables as a strategy for resilience against climate change. All this will result in a more resilient habitat and a better quality of life for the entire population, also making the city more egalitarian.
- Ciudad Real’s Blue and Green Infrastructure Strategy
- Revegetation of green axes
- Renaturalization of Gasset parking lot
- Creation of a green axis in the Avenida Jesús Garrido
- Creation of a green axis with a sustainable meadow on Avenida de Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo.
- Green corridor in the Advanced Industrial Park (PIA)
- Renaturalization of the Silos area as a green node
- Dehesa Green Axis C. General Espartero
- Green acupuncture in neighborhoods
- Recovery of the historic Calatrava La Vieja route as a green axis.
- Renaturalization of parking lots in Campus Verde UCLM
- Regeneration of the UCLM Campus vegetation.
- Ecosystem walkway on the outdoor campus and storm tank for stormwater recycling
- Experimental green cover
- Governance and participation plan
- Communication and awareness plan
- Indicator measurement and monitoring plan
Ciudad Real Activa: Territory, Ecosystems and Resilience (CRATER)
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