Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan

designing the Barcelonaof the future

YEARS

historyADA COLAUMayor of Barcelona, president of the AMB and president of the PEMB

Opening of the Vallvidrera tunnels

Opening of the first permanent cycling lane in Barcelona

Barcelona Olympic Games and opening of the ring roads

La Diagonal reaches the sea. New Rambla del Raval

Integrated fare system in the Barcelona area

The tram returns to Barcelona + Universal Forum of Cultures

Arrival of the high-speed train (AVE)

Smart City Expo

Opening of the L9 Sud

Mobile World Congress is held in the fairgrounds at Gran Vía de L’Hospitalet

The new bus network begun in 2012 is completed and launched

Pressure on infrastructure: major blackout, chaos on local train (Cercanías) and episode of drought

Opening of the airport’s new terminal (current T1) and the El Prat desalination plant

Attack on the Rambla in Barcelona

First Quincena Metropolitana de Danza urban dance event

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Google is created

Terrorist attack in the United States

Facebook is created

Beginning of the world financial crisis

Arab Spring and nuclear accident at Fukushima

Brexit referendum

Mass protests around the world over the invasion of Iraq

I N B A R C E L O N A

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FIRST ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BARCELONA

SECOND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BARCELONA

THIRD ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR BARCELONA

VISION 2020 STRATEGIC PLAN

METROPOLITAN STRATEGIC PLAN

NEW STRATEGIC PLAN 2030

CREATION OF THE BARCELONA STRATEGIC PLAN 2000

REFOUNDATION: BARCELONA METROPOLITAN STRATEGIC PLAN ASSOCIATION

THE METROPOLITAN AREA BECOMES PRESIDENT OF THE PEMB

NEW IMPETUS FOR THE PEMB (30 YEARS)

FORMAL CONSTITUTION OF THE BARCELONA STRATEGIC PLAN 2000

S O C I A L A N D E C O N O M I C P R O G R E S S B A S E D

O N I N N O V A T I O N A N D S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y T O R E D U C E

I N E Q U A L I T I E S A N D U R B A N S E G R E G A T I O N

2030

“Metropolitan cities and areas have a major responsibility to provide an effective response to the new global challenges that

states have been unable to solve on their own. (...) This is why creating spaces for thinking and planning the future of cities

also means thinking and planning the future of the planet”

ATTRACTIVENESS3

199018th-most attractive European

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4th-most attractive European

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URBAN GREENERY1

6,240,856 m2

11,306,115 m2

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VISITORS TO THE SAGRADA FAMILIA1

500,000 4,527,427

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UNIVERSITY AND VOCATIONAL STUDENTS1

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CYCLING LANES1

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UAB Research Park – Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès

UPC Research Park – Les Corts

B_Tech – Sant Adrià de Besòs

ESADECREAPOLIS – Sant Cugat del Vallès

Tecnocampus – Mataró

La Salle Technova – Sarrià Sant Gervasi

Parc Tecnològic del Vallès – Cerdanyola del Vallès

Mediterranean Technology Park. PMT – Castelldefels

Orbital 40. Science and Technology Park of Terrassa

Barcelona Activa – Technology Park – Nou Barris

UPF Research Park – Sant Martí

Biopol’H Consortium – L’Hospitalet

Can Ruti – Badalona

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1988The Strategic Plan was created in 1988 as a way for the major players in society to agree on what Barcelona should look like in 2000.

This exercise was proposed shortly after Barcelona was nominated the host city for the 1992 Olympic Games, after Spain joined the European Economic Community and following the dissolution of the Metropolitan Corporation of Barcelona.

Barcelona faced a series of challenges ahead of the year 2000

The projects of the different city strategic plans (1990, 1994 and 1999) and metropolis strategic plans (2003 and 2010) focused on:

To be a competitive city on an international scale, becoming the axis of the northwestern Mediterranean macro-region.

To shift from an industrial city to a metropolis whose economic activity centres around advanced services.

Increase social cohesion, preventing the risk of social segregation.

Challenges

“My grandfather was born in the La Ribera neighbourhood and in a

generation he moved beyond the wall, to Calle Trafalgar, Eixample and

Sant Gervasi. If our grandparents took that gigantic leap, I am convinced

that our generation will take the metropolitan leap”

Pasqual Maragall (1982), Per una Barcelona Olímpica i Metropolitana. Barcelona:

Servicio de Publicaciones y Documentación Municipal, 15.

PASQUAL MARAGALL

Mayor of Barcelona (1982-1997)

and president of the General Council of the PEMB (1988-1997)

at the starting point

A heavy investment in infrastructure (new airport and trade fair, expansion of the port, new cultural infrastructure, the ring roads, the AVE and more).

A commitment to the service sectors based on the knowledge economy, giving a powerful boost to research activity and to advanced services for productive activity.

Improvement of the neighbourhoods of the metropolis and public, making it more accessible to all.

2018

To combat the growing inequalities in access to housing or a job, and ensure a quality urban environment and equal opportunities for all throughout the region.

To join other metropolises around the world in fighting against climate change, absorbing the impact of digitalisation and successfully integrating migrants and refugees.

To articulate more effective metropolitan policies, from spatial planning to economic and social development, environmental management and the promotion of research, education and culture. To have the tools of governance that strengthen democracy, public-private community collaboration and civic participation at all local scales (neighbourhood, municipality and metropolis).

What are the current challenges?

“The Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan has allowed us to expand a

creative territorial vision and learn how to incorporate the dynamic and

intelligent life of the set of initiatives and social realities that make up

the metropolitan area”

ANTONIO BALMÓN

Mayor of Cornellà de Llobregat and executive vice president of the AMB

1950: 30%2014: 54%2050: 66%5

1 OCDE - 2 OIT - 3 ESPAS - 4 ESPAS - 5 NN.UU - 6 Wagner et all - 7 ESPAS - 8 UN - 9 Roland Berger Trend Compendium 2030 - 10 McKinsey Global Institute: Jobs lost, jobs gained: workforce transitions in a time of automation.

2016: 312030: 416

GDP forecast growth = (2016-2030)

Worldwide growth of the middle class

Number de megacities(+10 M) worldwide

2012EU: 23.1% China: 4.5% USA: 21.9%

2030EU: 15.5%China: 24.9% USA: 14.7%3

Territorial reorganisation of world trade flows

2009: 1.8 B 2030: 5 B4

Need to create470 M jobs in the world by 20302

SLOWDOWN IN ECONOMIC GROWTH

CHANGES IN ECONOMIC GLOBALISATION PATTERNS

URBANISATION PROCESS

Worldwide urban population

1.9% annual (euro zone) 3.5% (world)1

new forms, new times, new generations, greater diversity

GLOBAL TRENDS:

Migrations 34 M people from the least developed to the most developed countries 2015 to 2030: 13 M towards Europe9

Shortage of water and crops affecting 1.4 M people

2 ºC by 20307

400 M workers will have been replaced by robots and between 75 and 375 M workers will have changed job category by 203010

Predicted 50% increase and creation of between 20 and 50 M jobs

Global ageing55% increase in population over 60 years old between 2015-2030: 61.1% increase in population over 80 years old8

Estimated job destruction worldwide (2016-2030)

Global expenditure on technology (2015-2030)

CLIMATE CHANGE AND USE OF RESOURCES

AGEING OF THE POPULATION AND NEW MIGRATION MOVEMENTS

INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

Expected rise in temperature

Use of resources

2030The PEMB is setting out on a new process of shared reflection to integrate the proposals coming from their members and different public, private and civic organisations on the future of the metropolis to create a strategic plan for metropolitan Barcelona with a view to 2030. A central line of this plan will be the promotion of social and economic progress based on innovation and sustainability as a mechanism for reducing inequalities and spatial segregation in the metropolitan area.

To develop this new plan, we propose working based on three major pillars:

“With its overall view of the metropolitan phenomenon, the PEMB is a

space to deal with complexity from cross-cutting perspectives, a space for

collaboration between organisations representing very diverse interests and

a space to address strategic projects that integrate the points of view and

capacities of public, private and civic organisations”

JANET SANZ

Fourth deputy mayor of Barcelona, vice president of Strategic Planning

for the AMB and president of the Executive Committee of the PEMB

future vision

To establish a metropolis as an urban laboratory that uses innovation and creativity to generate prosperity and new solutions to urban challenges, we must take advantage of the possibility of building the new strategic plan alongside the new metropolitan urban master plan to outline a metropolitan Barcelona fully prepared to welcome and develop mobility, economic activity and research and knowledge in the 21st century.

A PROSPEROUS METROPOLIS

Connected and networked, promoting smart, sustainable and inclusive progress, focused on improving the quality of life and generating opportunities for all. Education is the best way to achieve this and will be accompanied by the digital revolution, the transformation of traditional economic sectors, the promotion of a more diverse and varied economy and metropolitan governance with the tools to achieve greater equity.

A COHESIVE METROPOLIS

Having the tools and alternatives to satisfy basic needs for everyone, everywhere and at all times is about ensuring clean air; sufficient quality water; food that is good, healthy and produced in fair conditions; sustainable energy; and affordable housing. These are the elements to move towards a healthier metropolis.

A RESILIENT METROPOLIS

Shared metropolitan commitment

SDGsSustainable Development Goals

Just like 30 years ago, the vigour of the transformation must come from the concerted action of the main metropolitan institutions. To think about the city of the future, we must base our efforts on global commitments, such as the United Nations 2030 Agenda and New Urban Agenda and the plans and programmes that we have taken up locally to make the right to the (metropolitan) city effective.

We must take advantage of the spaces for participation and the new technological tools to achieve the broadest civic involvement possible. The Barcelona Metropolitan Strategic Plan should be built on the basis of the contributions and commitment of all the components of the so-called quadruple helix: The public administrations, the private sector, the academic and research sector and common people and their organisations.

ORIOL ESTELA BARNETGeneral coordinator

of the PEMB

The metropolitan Barcelona of 2030 must be one of the leading urban areas to achieve the objectives of sustainability, economic progress, social justice and good governance thanks to its ability to anticipate; to its creative audacity, innovative drive and supportive spirit; and, above all, to its willingness to put people at the centre. We at the PEMB have a metropolitan commitment that we want to extend to all public and private organisations.

Therefore, we request your open participation in developing the strategy that should serve as a road map for the next 12 years.

PROMOTING BODIES AND ORGANISATIONS

Ajuntament de Barcelona

Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona

ORGANISATIONS AND BODIES ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AENA (Aeroport de Barcelona-El Prat)

Metropolitan town councils

Autoritat Portuària de Barcelona

Cambra Oficial de Comerç, Indústria i Navegació de Barcelona

Cercle d’Economia

Consell Comarcal del Baix Llobregat

Consell Comarcal del Barcelonès

Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona

Comissió Obrera Nacional de Catalunya

Diputació de Barcelona

Fira Internacional de Barcelona

Foment del Treball

Nacional Generalitat de Catalunya

Unió General de Treballadors de Catalunya

Universitat de Barcelonawww.pemb.cat

@pembarcelona Pla Estratègic Metropolità de Barcelona

Local identity, global vision, metropolitan commitment