Bioclimatic urban planning puts forward a whole series of strategies, all of which are personalised, to suggest how to make our urban areas more adequate and pleasant. The objectives are very clear: to behave in a respectful manner towards our surroundings by integrating the architecture into the natural environment and by positioning the houses in such a way that they can have at their disposition all the natural resources available, and can also avoid or temper any negative elements.

Two completely different examples of this in our Spanish geography is the old city centre of A Coruña, where the main streets are laid out at right angles to the prevailing winds, and the side streets go off them at random to stop the wind from reaching the house fronts on the south side of the town. In the case of Cordoba, the centre is made up of narrow and irregular streets which prevent the sun from penetrating and so provide shade, while the blocks of houses are very big to allow for interior patios which act as authentic cold air stores.