Panama City demands a significant amount of public space to accompany the extraordinary real estate development and new facilities that will transform it into an international centre for conferences, business and tourism. Our studio has designed and built a linear park of almost half a million square metres that accompanies the highway called Cinta Costera that runs along the shoreline of the city centre. The parks have to integrate, hide and silence the roads and their parking areas in order to give all the prominence to the public facilities for sports, culture and health and to a number of places for leisure and fun such as beaches, esplanades, solarium, skate-parks, outdoor stages, picnic areas, etc. The project includes pedestrian walkways, street furniture, restaurants, pontoons and pergolas designed specifically for the occasion. The littoral parks of Panama have a double social and heritage responsibility because, on the one hand, they must upgrade the depressed neighbourhoods that they serve by providing access to the public space in which citizens of all types now come into contact, and on the other hand, they must value the architectural and cultural heritage of an urban centre declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.