The Challenge of the City Model and the Metropolitan Area

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A polycentric, compact, mixed-use, and connected city

Madrid faces the challenge of defining an urban model that is compact and polycentric, capable of responding to the challenges of the 21st century by promoting proximity, social cohesion, and sustainability. This model is based on diverse, well-connected neighbourhoods, with public spaces that prioritise community life, active mobility, and urban nature, reducing the city’s carbon footprint and adapting to climate change. More than a planning document, it is a shared vision for building a liveable, competitive, and innovative city.

Areas of Action

City model and strategic elements

The city model must also drive the regeneration of obsolete areas, the creation of new centralities, and the integration of technological solutions that improve mobility, energy management, and liveability. All of this must be guided by a long-term vision that ensures flexibility and adaptability in the face of change.

Metropolitan area and region

Madrid cannot be planned in isolation. Its daily life, economic, social, and environmental dynamics, and future challenges are closely connected to the municipalities that make up its metropolitan area and to the wider regional territory. The city needs to strengthen its role as the key node in a more balanced, cooperative polycentric urban network, capable of addressing shared challenges such as sustainable mobility, land management, affordable housing, and the ecological transition. Moving towards a metropolitan governance model is essential to building a more cohesive, resilient, and fair region.

Structuring projects

Madrid needs to drive structuring projects that guide its urban transformation in a coherent, sustainable, and equitable way. These interventions must do more than respond to immediate needs: they should shape a long-term vision that connects the territory, improves connectivity, regenerates urban fabrics, and ensures fair access to services and opportunities. Key infrastructure, green corridors, public transport networks, metropolitan facilities, and affordable housing projects should all be designed as backbone elements of a more resilient, inclusive city that is ready for the challenges of the 21st century.

Mesa de trabajo

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Modelo de ciudad

Modelo de ciudad policéntrica y compacta, de acciones urbanísticas estructurantes, recualificación de ejes principales de la ciudad. Enfoque metropolitano de la estrategia.