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This Final Thesis - "Social and Urban Rehabilitation in Downtown Los Angeles" - is the result of two parallel processes: one is a contextual-physical approach (1) and the other is a programatic-abstract concept (2). Both merge to create a project that intends to reallocate and reorganize a vast area surrounding the existent Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles. All the project has been designed with a pattern-system (2) based on territorial planning and geological maps which merges floor plans and transversal sections in one same document. A systematic program (2) is superimposed to the previous reality (1) and it generates a new but inherent project that consists of two main levels: a ground floor for a Transportation Interchange Station beneath a complex rooftop that allocates a Social Center for reintegrating people in danger of social exclusion. The whole complex works like a city itself.