EVOLUTION AND CRISIS OF THE METROPOLITAN REGION OF MADRID: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF URBAN PLANNING

Book published by Saarbrücken: Editorial Publicia, cop. 2013.

The Metropolitan Region of Madrid has undergone a great urban transformation in the period 1985-2007, in which the population has grown, the physical body, but above all its cost and consumption, which means that it has become more unsustainable. To try to understand this asymmetrical evolution, successive models are tested that try to explain the transformation of reality through the articulation of forms of power and their associated policies within the local-metropolitan context. The current international financial crisis has shown how the economic policies that have been implemented have proved to be unsustainable. In the Spanish case, the urban dimension of the crisis has had a special impact on some territories such as this Region, with a current situation of urban crisis, caused mainly by the divorce between the needs and the production of the city. The Region has played a role as a laboratory of new forms of governance with a greater role for space. The study of the role of planning and its crises in the succession of models shows its nuclear function and its capacity to project another urban future.

The printed text is available at the Nebrija University Library.