Master's degree in

Urban and Territorial Development: Management and Transformation of Cities

Coordinator: Josep Mª Llop Torné

Focused on the study of intermediate cities, the UIA-CIMES Program notes the lowest economic and technical resources available to this type of cities for their urban development. However, in the same way as the other cities that have these resources, they need to planning instruments to guide sustainable and strategic development. From this observation arises the initiative of the Base Plan, a document at once simple and flexible, since its realization does not require important means and allows these cities to make a state of the issue of their urban development, lead a reflection and define the proposals on priority actions.

COORDINATOR: Josep Centelles

Reflections on the urban fact, the city, its new role in the world and the importance of its good government, understanding the institutions, the urban and government management (formal and informal) as the rules of urban coexistence and its need for sustainable human development.
Approaches to municipal financing models and their consequences in the provision of local public services, based on practical cases, methods and techniques of relational management and networking.

COORDINATOR: Ferran Navarro Acebes

Describe the elements of the land policy management model: the form of tenure, ownership of property, management mechanisms, urbanization process, cost management and its impact, formation of urban rents and capital gains, public land assets and other forms of tenure. Bases and notions of urban management, urban economy and its articulation in city management processes, based on Spanish legislation and with reference to other regional regulations, focusing on the knowledge acquired in concrete and applicable formulations in Latin American cities, starting with of the comparative analysis of the capacities of intermediate cities to define urban and land policies.

COORDINATOR: Marc Montlleó

The urban reality from a systemic perspective, integrating the environmental, social, economic subsystems and the policies applied from the local institution, through new methodologies and tools to face processes of analysis of local sustainability in an integrated way through indicators and agendas 21 local.

COORDINATOR: Albert Ibáñez de Sus

As a necessary complement to the urban management processes, the module proposes to investigate the potential for mobilizing instruments or mechanisms, direct and indirect, public and/or private, that arise from the agreement between the various sectors that facilitate the negotiation and enable financing of urban operations.

COORDINATOR: Francesc Peremiquel Lluch

Comprehensive view on the problems of urban structure present in Latin America and how to approach them in design key from the analysis of the fabric as a basic component of the city from different approaches that refer us both to identity and programmatic aspects of management and production of the city, taking as a central element of discussion the morphological components of the same: the street, the plot, form of aggregation, the buildings, etc., both in their individual components and aggregates. Study of urban fabric construction experiences in cities of Latin America and Europe knowing new generating mechanisms, models or key referents, as well as good intervention practices, allowing knowing new methodologies of generalizable character according to the characteristics of the fabric. Comparative graphical analysis of the essential and characteristic components of the residential public housing project and other alternatives in Latin America: its urban structure, road system, land structure, forms of aggregation, construction elements, composition of public space, etc. and its impact on the transformations of Latin American cities.

COORDINATOR: Miquel Roa López

Construction of a global vision of mobility processes and the role of infrastructures in functional, landscape, structural aspects of the city and its transforming role. Knowledge of new infrastructure management systems and public services based on successful experiences in Latin America and Europe.

COORDINATORS: Núria Colomé Montull and Paula Martí Comas

The module addresses the intervention in the city, placing the habitat as the central axis, understanding the habitat as a set that includes both the home itself and its surroundings and which ideally is a space that allows meeting the needs of its inhabitants.

In the first part, a theoretical approach is made around the right to housing and to the city, which will serve as a starting point for the analysis of real cases and practical mechanisms for improving the habitat.

In the second part, different cases are studied with the participation of people involved in their management and with visits to some projects. The analysis of the practical cases is based on the type of management, paying special attention to processes self-managed by the inhabitants themselves, whether in housing cooperatives or in self-built neighbourhoods, where communities provide themselves with services. In addition, cases of intervention in the consolidated city are studied, with the aim of improving the existing housing and the living conditions of its inhabitants, emphasizing that the improvement of the habitat reaches the houses themselves and does not remain only in the spaces public.

COORDINATOR: Josep Maria Carrera Alpuente

Present local and sustainable development strategies through recent planning experiences in cities and territories of the European and Latin American context with strong growth dynamics or in the process of transformation, establishing analogies between concepts, formulation of plans and instruments. Review and critical analysis on the implementation of policies and strategies in processes of development of territorial development plans, through participatory processes (local agenda 21, culture, etc.) and the management of conflicts and negotiations between the various agents. Deepening of new development strategies based on heritage resources (tangible and intangible) as a resource for the development of territorial policies that arise from the local reality and that are read as "cultural landscape".

COORDINATOR: Sebastià Jornet Forner

The "culture of the plan" as a form of project, intervention and management in the local development of the municipalities, structuring a project vision of the urban, territorial problems and the way of approaching them in the key of proposal through the urban planning. Studies of structures, methods and techniques of urban planning based on real experiences developed in Catalonia and the management instruments incorporated in the phase of formulating the plans.

COORDINATORS: María Herrero Canela and Berta Cendrós i Ollé

The objective of this module is to confront in real time a complex situation in the city, with the obligation to "leave the plans" to discuss with the inhabitants and in particular with those affected by urban planning, preparing and strengthening the skills of the city professional to communicate ideas, project and at the same time attend and intervene in cases of impact, involving the affected person in the construction of new ideas and projects; seeking to identify new processes of specific urban social creativity, linking experiences and innovating in common proposals that favour and meet the demands of the various social actors in the city.

The TFM intends that the student develop an individual work oriented to guarantee their acquisition of competences, their capacity to formulate
Strategies and actions for the management of urban and / or territorial transformations, and the deepening of technical instruments. It is proposed, therefore, a work that is already developed along the master's degree with a good systematization of the contents of the different modules, seminars and workshops. In addition, the TFM is considered as an intensification of some themes from the work of the Base Plan Workshop that takes place in the course of the master's degree, understood as the development of specific topics arising during the presentation of the master, and that deserve to be deepened with greater specificity, in order to acquire more competence in the generation of adequate instruments to solve the similar problems.