Barcelona Metropolitan area Master Plan
Barcelona Metropolitan area Master Plan
Metropolitan area of Barcelona
Metropolitan Area of Barcelona has 36 municipalities
Area: 636 km2
Inhabitants: 3'247'281
GDP: 120'799 M€
2% of the surface has 43% of the population (all in Barcelona city)
In 2010 they decided to create one single administration for the metropolitan area to avoid political conflicts and differences between big cities and countryside.
Metropolitan areas make everything more complicated:
- Lack of consensus of many projects
Spanish urban planning is very detailed.
https://geoportalplanejament.amb.cat/AppGeoportalPlanejament2/index.html
There are 3 clusters of density:
- 1 - High density: 35'000 ha/km2
- 2 - Medium density: 10'000 ha/km2
- 3 - Low density
In XX century, around the '60s, the idea that cars would collapse cities arised. So a network of segregated road infrastructure was planned. Highways connecting centralities very far away from each other.
At the same time, the concept of road hierarchy was introduced.