The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019)
Urban planning, as well as the type of city in which it takes place and is promoted, has changed a lot in Spanish cities since the return to democratically elected municipal governments in 1979. This work seeks to characterise the transformation that urban planning has undergone over the last 40 yea...
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| description | Urban planning, as well as the type of city in which it takes place and is promoted, has changed a lot in Spanish cities since the return to democratically elected municipal governments in 1979. This work seeks to characterise the transformation that urban planning has undergone over the last 40 years. It sets out to do this by studying the cases of two medium-sized Catalan cities, their underlying city models, and the ways in which planning has been defined and managed in Catalonia. All of this was undertaken through a bibliographic and documentary analysis of the approved planning documents, which was accompanied by a study of the population dynamics and building cycles. In Spain, urban planning has been one of the instruments used to catalyse expectations for economic growth based on land consumption through urbanisation. Within this context, planning has progressed from fulfilling an initial requirement to regulate activities and urban growth (1979–1991) to facilitating urban development through a clearly expansive and speculative form of neoliberal urbanism (1993–2007) and, finally, to assuming a form in which these previous tendencies coexist with certain new orientations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b5610d550413423da0ffd667c2b2016d2023-11-21T15:23:42ZengMDPI AGUrban Science2413-88512021-04-01523610.3390/urbansci5020036The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019)Carme Bellet Sanfeliu0Department of Geography and Sociology, University of Lleida, 25003 Lleida, SpainUrban planning, as well as the type of city in which it takes place and is promoted, has changed a lot in Spanish cities since the return to democratically elected municipal governments in 1979. This work seeks to characterise the transformation that urban planning has undergone over the last 40 years. It sets out to do this by studying the cases of two medium-sized Catalan cities, their underlying city models, and the ways in which planning has been defined and managed in Catalonia. All of this was undertaken through a bibliographic and documentary analysis of the approved planning documents, which was accompanied by a study of the population dynamics and building cycles. In Spain, urban planning has been one of the instruments used to catalyse expectations for economic growth based on land consumption through urbanisation. Within this context, planning has progressed from fulfilling an initial requirement to regulate activities and urban growth (1979–1991) to facilitating urban development through a clearly expansive and speculative form of neoliberal urbanism (1993–2007) and, finally, to assuming a form in which these previous tendencies coexist with certain new orientations.https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/5/2/36urban planningmaster plansurban projectsmedium-sized citiesneoliberal urbanism |
| spellingShingle | Carme Bellet Sanfeliu The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019) Urban Science urban planning master plans urban projects medium-sized cities neoliberal urbanism |
| title | The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019) |
| title_full | The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019) |
| title_fullStr | The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019) |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019) |
| title_short | The Evolution of Urban Planning in Medium-Sized Catalan Cities (1979–2019) |
| title_sort | evolution of urban planning in medium sized catalan cities 1979 2019 |
| topic | urban planning master plans urban projects medium-sized cities neoliberal urbanism |
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