Spanish urban law, changes after Aznar´s law

Abstract

It is common to blame 1998 urban law, promoted by the president Aznar, the present Spanish urban situation defined by the unnecessary construction of housing units. But the analysis of the Aznar´s urban law requires to briefly describing the Spanish urban law development, at least since the 1956 urban law. In 2007, after that ´marvellous decade´, and along with the real estate bubble burst, Spain went through a major change on urban law model which ended in the 2013 3R Act, the law for the urban sustainable development and the existing city intervention.

Keywords:

• Urban model evolution
• urban law
• 3R Act
• sustainable development
• existing city

Notes

1. Auken Report: On the impact of extensive urbanization in Spain on individual rights of European citizens, on the environment and on the application of EU law, based upon petitions received (2008/2248(INI)).