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Defining a new design course is something quite similar to an everyday action. In both cases we apply to a specific case a set of motivations and previously acquired criteria to take the precise decisions that will lead us to some expected results. Thus our experience is a powerful tool, not only to perceive reality, but also to alter it by projecting on it. Urbanism 5 is one of the last courses of the educational itinerary of urbanism in the degree of Architecture at the University of Alicante. After diverse courses that approach the formation of the student around certain subjects (such as the rudiments of the discipline, the ecological urbanism, knowledge on residential developments or tools for landscape analysis), students reach a level in which they are expected to be able to develop a projective activity on the existing reality with a certain autonomy. It is therefore a question of applying the experience gained previously to a specific site in order to establish a series of objectives to be achieved. The work performed by the lecturers responsible of this design studio is to show them a panorama of contemporary urbanism capable of helping them to define successful planning strategies to achieve those targets proposed by themselves. This panorama is neither complete nor closed, but tries to Abstract. The town of Altea (Alicante, Spain) has an important urban center that has historically been characterized by two contrasting situations: on one hand, the settlements located on the seaside elevations (Bellaguarda and the Renaissance Bastion) linked to the agricultural uses of the fertile valleys of the rivers Algar and els Arcs, and on the other hand the coastal developments, originally fishery, but nowadays with touristic uses on the maritime front. All these elements configure an urban nucleus that, due to its urban, architectural and landscape qualities, gives rise to one of the main tourist attractions of the region. However, the area described nowadays presents an important problem related to the use and habitability of public space, which is invaded by the presence of the private vehicle, even along the seaside, due to its touristic relevance. This article presents the results of an academic experience developed to study different possibilities of urban transformations for the municipality of Altea, taking as a project site the urban vacuum still conserved between the two situations previously described: the historical areas on the coastal elevations (Dalt) and new urban developments parallel to the seaside (Baix). This academic activity, performed by nearly 50 students from the University of Alicante, was developed in the context of the design course Urbanism 5 during the academic year 2015-16, thanks to the agreement signed between the Municipality of Altea and the University of Alicante.

Altea Urban Project: An academic approach to the transformation of a coastal Spanish touristic city based on the improvement of the public space