The University joins the Madrid City Council to develop the new Urban Development Plan
The University is one of the 11 public and private universities that will participate in the new General Urban Development Plan (PGOU) of Madrid.
FotoCedida/signature of the agreement with the university community.
15 | 11 | 2024
Carlos Naya, director of the School of Architecture, has signed a partnership agreement with the City of Madrid, by which the University of Navarra joins design of the new urban strategy of the city.
This is one of the agreements that the mayor of Madrid José Luis Martínez-Almeida, accompanied by the delegate of Urbanism, Environment and mobility, Borja Carabante, has signed with 11 public and private universities in the region to contribute their knowledge to the future General Urban Development Plan of Madrid (PGOUM).
The aim of this agreement is to promote territorial innovation and formulate proposals to achieve a balance between economic development , social integration and sustainability. The entities adhered to these agreements undertake to provide technical advice to the City Council for the essay of the General Urban Development Plan of Madrid (PGOUM).
Faced with the current general plan, in force since 1997, which "does not adapt to the urban socioeconomic reality", Almeida has described as "imperative" the need to develop, together, a new plan that responds "to all the challenges we have as a society" in terms of "sustainability, policies of access to housing, rehabilitation and design of the city". To this end, he invited the university community to "think Madrid" and that "students can be directly involved in the process of developing a general plan that will define the future of this city over the coming decades".
agreement place In addition to the director of the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, the rectors of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Guillermo Cisneros; the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Joaquín Goyache; the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Amaya Mendikoetxea; the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Javier Ramos; from the Universidad CEU San Pablo, Rosa Visiedo; from the Universidad Antonio Nebrija, José Muñiz; from the Universidad Europea de Madrid, Elena Gazapo; from IE University, Salvador Carmona; from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Antonio Allende; and the Vice President of Institutional Relations, Culture and Equality of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Eva María Blázquez.
