Municipal planning policies in Spain: 40 years of democratic city councils (1979–2019)

En los últimos 40 años, las ciudades españolas han cambiado mucho dentro de un marco más general de profunda transformación política, social y económica del país. A través fundamentalmente del análisis bibliográfico y documental el trabajo trata, en primer lugar, de contextualizar y caracterizar la evolución de las políticas urbanísticas desplegadas desde los primeros ayuntamientos democráticos hasta la actualidad e identificar el modelo de ciudad en el que éstas se han ido basando a la vez que construyendo (física y simbólicamente). Para ello, se establecen tres períodos de análisis temporal: 1979-1991; 1992-2007 y 2008-2019, cuya delimitación se realiza teniendo en cuenta, también, la evolución de la dinámica inmobiliaria y las fechas de celebración de las elecciones municipales. Finalmente, se caracteriza el urbanismo del último de los períodos tras la crisis financiera e inmobiliaria (2008-2019), durante el cual, y especialmente tras las elecciones municipales en 2015, irrumpieron en algunos gobiernos locales, partidos y coaliciones que surgieron de los movimientos del 15 M de 2011.Over the past 40 years, Spanish cities have changed considerably. This has occurred within a wider framework of deep-seated political, social and economic transformation. This work is mainly based on bibliographical analysis and a review of relevant territorial planning documentation. Firstly, it aims to contextualise and characterise the evolution of the urban policies that have been applied from the arrival of the first democratically-elected city councils through to the present day and to identify the city model in which these changes have been thought up and (physically and symbolically) constructed. To do this, we established three periods for our analysis: 1979–1991, 1992–2007, and 2008–2019. This division was made while also taking into account the evolution and dynamics of the property market and the dates on which municipal elections were held. Secondly, it tries to characterise the nature of urbanism during the last of these periods, after the financial and property crisis (2008–2019). During this period, and particularly after the 2015 municipal, the parties and coalitions that emerged from the 15th May 2011 movements, managed to enter some local government bodies

The evoluction 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 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 orientationsThe current workw as carried out within the framework of the research project entitled: “The evolution of urbanistic policies in Spain’s medium‐sized cities and their urban areas:1979–2019 ”(RTI2018‐096435‐B C21), which is financed by Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation with the support of FEDER (EU) fundin