Cases, Strategic planning
Cases, Strategic planning
The Metropolitan Urban Master Plan (PDUM) is a strategic tool that will facilitate the future development and transformation of the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also an urban planning figure of supra-municipal scope which, with a strategic vision, establishes the main objectives and the main guidelines that must be developed in the 2050 horizon in the metropolitan area of Barcelona related to the infrastructures, green areas, mobility, social cohesion, urban metabolism, economic competitivity, urban fabrics and open spaces.
The metropolis of Barcelona is a unique Mediterranean city forged over the centuries. It is a very lively city, with a great diversity of highly consolidated urban fabrics and others that are more dispersed that make up a metropolis with 48% of the urbanized land in need of urban renewal to improve habitability and 52% of the land occupied by spaces open spaces of great environmental and social value that represent a great opportunity to build a more sustainable and healthy metropolis.
Understanding the growing complexity of the contemporary city is a challenge that forces us to periodically reconsider both the concepts analyzed and the instruments to address the territorial phenomena that are revealed in the process of reflection.
The metropolitan area of Barcelona is no exception. The urban processes of the last decades have radically transformed the territory and make it necessary to re-analyze the municipalities that make it up, from an interdisciplinary perspective and with current tools, in order to be able to plan the future with maximum success through the Metropolitan Urban Master Plan (PDUM).
The territorial diversity and the complexity of the cases that characterize this territory call for new approaches, tools and planning instruments that, forty-one years after the approval of the PGM, ensure environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness and social cohesion. In short, to improve people’s quality of life and guarantee a better future for the next generations.
Tags: Governance, strategic planning, metropolitan area, metropolitan governance, citizen participation, open data
The approval of the PDU will give way to the replacement of the General Metropolitan Plan (PGM), in force since 1976, which covers 27 municipalities and which, together with the general plans of the remaining 9 municipalities, has made it possible to build the cities we have today. After 40 years and more than a thousand modifications of the PGM, the current needs of society and the territory call for a different approach to urban planning. Rehabilitating the already built city, attending to the diversity of open spaces and environmental requirements and putting the focus on people’s needs are some of the main objectives of the metropolitan PDU.
The metropolitan PDU involves a process of global reflection on the different scenarios and challenges facing the metropolis that are projected in the medium and long term. This process, at the same time, must revert to improving the quality of the nearest urban environments; in the face of a pandemic such as COVID-19, tools such as the metropolitan PDU take on special relevance, as they provide the framework to jointly rethink a common territorial model and the criteria for achieving quality nearby environments.
We can say, then, that the Plan straddles two logics and two very different scales of work, which have conditioned both the perspective with which the objectives and work areas of the Plan itself have been defined, as well as the philosophy with which the participation process that has accompanied the Advancement of the Plan has been designed.
Project type Metropolitan governance and Metropolitan urban master plan
Partnership Barcelona Metropolitan Area and the 36 municipalities involved
Funding AMB and the local authorities involved
Start date On going (from 2012)
Website PDUM website
The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona is drafting the Metropolitan Urban Master Plan (PDU), in compliance with Law 31/2010, of August 3, which grants it the planning powers to establish the main lines of development in urban planning on the metropolitan territory, which is made up of 36 municipalities.
The approval of the PDU will give way to the replacement of the General Metropolitan Plan (PGM), in force since 1976, which covers 27 municipalities and which, together with the general plans of the remaining 9 municipalities, has made it possible to build the cities we have today. After 40 years and more than a thousand modifications of the PGM, the current needs of society and the territory call for a different approach to urban planning. Rehabilitating the already built city, attending to the diversity of open spaces and environmental requirements, and putting the focus on people’s needs are some of the main objectives of the metropolitan PDU.
The latest urban regulation in Catalonia has opted for a clearly participatory model in the development of urban plans, which prioritizes both information on documentation and analysis work and active participation in the different phases of the process. With this aim, the Progress of the PDU, which was approved on March 26, 2019, incorporates the citizen participation program which explains how we have understood participation since the beginning of the drafting of the Plan, details the actions carried out and defines the framework of collaboration with the different agents who will take part in the drafting of the Plan in all stages of processing.
The metropolitan PDU involves a process of global reflection on the different scenarios and challenges facing the metropolis that are projected in the medium and long term. This process, at the same time, must revert to improving the quality of the nearest urban environments; in the face of a pandemic such as COVID-19, tools such as the metropolitan PDU take on special relevance, as they provide the framework to jointly rethink a common territorial model and the criteria for achieving quality nearby environments.
We can say, then, that the Plan straddles two logics and two very different scales of work, which have conditioned both the perspective with which the objectives and work areas of the Plan itself have been defined, as well as the philosophy with which the participation process that has accompanied the Advancement of the Plan has been designed.
In total, 2,677 contributions have been received, which the Plan’s technical team has analyzed together to assess their relationship with the main work topics, the objectives of the Plan’s Progress and the main elements of the proposal.
Summary :
307 ACTIONS
105 PAPERS
13 EXHIBITIONS
21 PUBLICATIONS
500 EXPERTS
+14,900 PARTICIPANTS
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