The magazine “ Ciudad y Territorio-Estudios Territoriales ”, published by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, presented a monographic issue in autumn 2023 with the title “Urban planning in Spain: crisis and future challenges”. This issue of the magazine is the result of almost two years of work by a group of people who have managed to bring together the most prestigious urban planners of the moment. Among the invited authors, Víctor García Gil, head of urban planning at AUG-ARQUITECTOS, SLP, publishes an issue in which he reviews the last three decades of professional activity in the field of rural urban planning in the Valencian Community.
The content of the publication has been structured into six sections and has included the participation of the following authors:
SECTION 1. THE OPPORTUNITY OF A TRANSVERSAL LOOK ON THE CURRENT ROLE OF URBAN PLANNING
- Urban Planning and urban form: a historical perspective. Author: Fernando DE-TERÁN
- he city that we want, the plans that we need: opening the political horizon of Urban Planning. Author: José María EZQUIAGA-DOMÍNGUEZ
- In defence of planning as a collective project facing the current challenges of eco-social transition. Authors: Agustín HERNÁNDEZ-AJA & Isabel GONZÁLEZ-GARCÍA
SECTION 2. CRISES AND RENOVATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK OF URBAN PLANNING
- Weaknesses of Urban Planning in the Spanish legislative framework. Author: Ángela DE-LA-CRUZ-MERA
- Spatial Planning and Urban Planning: another odd couple. Author: Marcos VAQUER-CABALLERÍA
- Spanish Urban Planning law through the pandemic: a chronicle of regulatory production from 2018 to 2022. Author: Ángel MARINERO-PERAL
- The nullity of Urban Planning: a perspective from the experience of the Supreme Court. Author: Rafael FERNÁNDEZ-VALVERDE
- Proposals to improve the legal protection of Urban Planning. Author: Ángel MENÉNDEZ-REXACH
SECTION 3: THE NEED OF DISCIPLINARY RENOVATION OF URBAN PLANNING
- Urban planning and its enemies, in Spain: notes for an improvement of urban activity. Author: Juan Luis DE-LAS-RIVAS-SANZ
- The need to rethink Urban and Territorial Planning. Author: Sebastián JORNET-FORNER
SECTION 4. THE PROBLEMS OF URBAN PLANNING IN SMALL MUNICIPALITIES
- Urbanism in rural Spain: twelve problems in Urban Planning in small rural municipalities illustrated through examples. Author: Eduardo DE-SANTIAGO-RODRÍGUEZ
- The difficulties of Urban Planning in small municipalities from the experience in the Valencian Community. Author: Víctor GARCÍA-GIL (See the article)
SECTION 5. NEW TOOLS TO THINK AND GOVERN THE CITY AND THE TERRITORY
- The Local Action Plans of the Spanish Urban Agenda: their role in the Urban Planning of the 21st century. Author: Sonia HERNÁNDEZ-PARTAL
- Urban planning and urban regeneration: coordination between urban and sectorial policies in response to urban challenges. Authors: Iván RODRÍGUEZ-SUÁREZ & Lucas ÁLVAREZ-DEL-VALLE & Ana DÍEZ-BERMEJO
- Urban and Territorial Planning plans from the logic of sustainable food systems. Authors: Marian SIMÓN-ROJO & Nerea MORÁN-ALONSO & Annalisa GIOCOLI & Alberto MATARÁN-RUIZ
SECTION 6. CASE STUDIES: FROM REGIONAL TO URBAN PLANNING
- Facing the challenge of a new territorial planning law: the new Act for Integral Territorial Planning in Asturias. Author: Sonia PUENTE-LANDÁZURI
- Spatial Planning in the Basque Country: framework and help for the Urban Planning of the municipalities. Author: Jesús María ERQUICIA-OLACIREGUI
- Menorca, twenty years after: the revision of the Menorca Island Plan, an opportunity to strength sustainable development. Author: Gemma PERIBÁÑEZ-AYALA
- Municipal urban planning in Andalusia: a journey between complexity and hope. Author: José SEGUÍ-PÉREZ
- The apparent twilight of the plan: Torrelavega, an opportunity for the renewal of the mode. Authors: Carmen ANDRÉS-MATEO & Llanos MASIÁ-GONZÁLEZ
- Planning principles for urban growth in the Palma Master Plan: “reversing urbanism” and urban regeneration of the existing city to limit land consumption. Author: Pedro GÓRGOLAS-MARTÍN
DOCUMENTS
- The current situation of municipal Urban Planning in Spain: lights and shadows in a complex panorama . Author: Eduardo DE-SANTIAGO-RODRÍGUEZ