Territory and landscape. Town planning

Territory, landscape and town planning in Catalonia

• Territorial planning (Opens in new window)

  How the territory is organised by means of general, regional and director plans, as well as laws.

• Urbanistic planning (Opens in new window)

  How urban land is managed in Catalonia: zoning qualification, use, property catalog, plans...

• Urban planning (Opens in new window)

  Management of human settlements in the territory.

• Undevelopable land and landscape (Opens in new window)

  Management of land incompatible with urban development (undevelopable land) and landscape diversity.

• Parks in Catalonia (Opens in new window)

  Catalonia has an extensive network of protected areas, from the mountains to the coast, ranging from Eurosiberian woodlands to semi-desert scrub and marine areas.

• Coastline (Opens in new window)

  Information on the Catalan coastline, coastal planning, regulations, cataloguing of beach sections, as well as authorizations and concessions in the public maritime-land domain.

• Mountain areas (Opens in new window)

  Management and services in mountain areas, as well as active policies, regional plans, road actions and regulations.

• Cartography and toponymy (Opens in new window)

  Cartographic databases and geographic services, and a community of users of geographic information and hypermap access.

• Territory Observatory (Opens in new window)

  A tool that collects the studies and data on urban planning and participates in their monitoring and evaluation.

• Urban Agenda of Catalonia (Opens in new window)

  Challenges posed by the urban phenomenon, to take advantage of the potential of urbanization and agglomeration, and at the same time correct their weaknesses.

• Hipermap (Opens in new window)

  Integrated, systematic geo-referenced information on principal services, socio-economic dynamics, and regional planning in Catalonia.

• Infraestructures.cat (Opens in new window)

  Data on tenders, procurement, and contracts for infrastructures in Catalonia.

• Municat (Opens in new window)

  Information about local conditions: statistics, grants and subsidies, resources and bulletin boards.