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Abstract
The metropolitan urbanization shows evidence that planning at the regional, subregional and municipal levels with its wide range of territorial, urban and sectorial competences is now longer able to significantly influence territorial development. This has led to a greater demand for alternative approaches, methods and instruments. For this research study, the metropolitan area of Granada was used as a field laboratory to assess the capacity of metropolitan planning to have an impact on metropolitan processes and dynamics. For this purpose, a method for metropolitan planning evaluation, MPE methodology, was proposed, which involves two evaluation processes. This method first evaluated the coherence of plans of different competences and at different scales within the metropolitan context (trans-scalar evaluation); it then evaluated the interaction between methods and proposals in plans and metropolitan dynamics (interactive evaluation).
Acknowledgements
This research was carried out within the framework of the following research projects:
• Elaboración de modelos de simulación predictivos del crecimiento urbano actual (SEJ2007-66608-C04-04), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain).
• Guía metodológica para la integración metropolitana sostenible de los sistemas de metro ligero. INTEGRA-ME (PO9-RNM-5394. 2010–2014), funded by the Regional Government of Andalusia (Spain).