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Abstract
The Catalan experience between 2005 and 2010 constitutes an interesting example of urban & regional planning policies responding to the dramatic changes that took place at the turn of the real estate crisis of 2008: there is probably no other European case study where such a quantity of planning and legislative initiatives addressing urban growth were approved in such a short period. The article frames them in the Spanish framework and provides an integrative understanding of how the Catalan territory was planned in a period of critical changing conditions, from regional to local scale as well as from urban to rural land.
Notes
1. The available information on Euroconstruct shows that the rate of yearly capital increase related with the building industry kept constant in up to a 30%. See Euroconstruct: http://www.euroconstruct.org
2. Only after 2010 a very basic assessment of long-term impact of urban developments in the municipal treasuries became a mandatory component of municipal Masterplans.
3. See the Sistema de Información Urbana, Ministerio de Fomento, Dirección General de la Vivienda (Urban Information System, Spanish Ministry of Fomento: http://visorsiu.fomento.es/siu/PortalSiu.html
4. The PTSH estimates that the total amount of vacant homes means the 14.2% of all housing stock. Furthermore, the amount of secondary homes, those which are used as holidays-weekend homes, means the 29.8% of all housing stock and, in some touristic areas, they mean up to 50% of the total.