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The objective of this article is to analyze the implementation of eco-neighborhoods in the city of Madrid. This is a new formulation that joins, within neighborhood scale, purposes of environmental sustainability with social and economic aims. First, we make a general approach reviewing the initiatives proposed in the capital city and then we will make an analysis of the eco-neighborhood of Vallecas, the only one still working. We have looked through the official approach, the present bibliography, the official statements, the interpretations of the technicians, the resident’s opinions exposed in websites, social networks and press. The field research and the collection of information through conversations with the agents involved were the keys to verify the real results of the projects. We consider that the development and the conclusion of these initiatives have been a failure. The reasons are in its origin and the process of realization, but mainly in the confused premises that were the foundation of its design and localization. The absence of dialogue with neighbors and associations turned the official speeches and plans in something strange to the citizen’s necessities of the southern area, with the lowest rents of Madrid.

La ville de Madrid a historiquement montré un clair mépris des cours d’eau et leur valeur patrimoniale a été engloutie par le développement urbain. Néanmoins, certains fragments de cette nature négligée, des restes de dépressions topographiques (talwegs) liés à des ruisseaux, ont finalement réussi à obtenir leur mise en valeur comme parcs urbains, expression ultime de la nature en ville. Cet article est axé sur la revendication de l’importance de ces lieux, sur l’analyse de leur processus de patrimonialisation en 1975-1990, ainsi que sur la dénonciation de l'orientation médiatique, onéreuse et peu durable de la conception des derniers parcs urbains construits sur d'anciens ruisseaux.