As the title of this collection suggests, the objective is to document and disseminate different work methodologies that, autonomously or as a whole, can contribute to promoting and concretising that paradigm shift in urban development models that is recognised as being a matter of international urgency. Its innovative and regenerative capacity is based on the search for a balance between technological development, human development and ecosystem services.

The initiative of this collection of books is based on the research line Integrated Urban Regeneration and the Urbanism Module of the Master's. In the different initiatives and projects that have been carried out in these two specific areas, different working methodologies have been or are being developed, the objective of which is to define and support a new urban model that is more in line with the basic principles of sustainability in its broad sense. 

Therefore, each of the methodologies that the new collection aims to disseminate is the result of research focused on the citizens themselves, the quality of their own habitat and how to reduce the impact of this on the environment. All of this with the aim of building an urban model based on equality and social cohesion, on the internal balance of the city against all types of segregation and exclusion and on the balance between the city and its natural environment. 

This strict linking of architecture and urbanism with the social dimension determines that the methodologies developed are basically qualitative, since it is a contradiction to think of a new model of development on a human scale which merely reduces to numbers the complexity of a society such as the present day one, characterized by the simultaneous existence of cultures, lifestyles, behaviours, forms of expression and ways of life that are all profoundly different from each other.

Thus, the aim of the collection is to disseminate these methodologies and, through them, a different way of approaching architecture and urbanism, to build cities for people. For this reason, in each edition, each methodology will be described not only in theoretical terms but also through documentation of the results of its application in a practical case study.

All editions will have the same structure, and will be set out in the following sections:

• The context, which describes the scope of the development of the methodology and all previous documentation collected and analysed in each case. Through different texts, the creative process of the methodology and its final configuration are described.
• A case study, which describes the practical application in terms of process and results.
• A critical analysis, where, on the one hand, the methodology is analysed critically based on the results of the case study and points are identified to be improved or reinforced; and, on the other hand, the urban development alternatives that the application of the methodology makes possible are also analysed: not only the concrete case studied, but also in general terms for any urban environment.

Each number is composed of theoretical texts in the sections The context, The methodology and A critical analysis and descriptive texts in the section A case study.

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4.1. Members

4.2. Functions

The Scientific Committee monitors the programming of the collection and the contents of each issue.

Once the required set of files has been received, the Editorial Committee will send an email confirming receipt.

The work received will be subjected to a first review by the Editorial Committee in order to analyse its conformity with the present Editorial Standards and make a first evaluation of its consistency with respect to the contents of each issue of the collection.

If the documentation presents serious faults with respect to these two aspects, the text will be rejected. In the case of identification of major defects, the material will be returned to the author for correction. If the defects are of lesser importance, they will be communicated to the author together with the review report by the Scientific Committee. The results of this first review will be communicated to the author within 30 calendar days of issuing the acknowledgment of receipt.

Once the work has been accepted by the Editorial Committee, it will undergo a double-blind peer evaluation carried out by external evaluators who are experts in the areas of research covered in the Methodologies Collection.

According to the results of the double-blind peer evaluation, the papers will be rejected, accepted or the author will be requested to make corrections.  In the case of needing corrections, these will be sent within a period of 15 calendar days from the date of sending the request.  To facilitate the correction process, the author must accompany the new material submission with a description of the modifications introduced.

If sufficient time is available, the Editorial Committee will send a draft of the layout to each author to mark possible errata. The author will have a period of 10 calendar days from the sending of the draft to return it.

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