Best urban practices in Spain and Latin America publications on innovating and integrated urban experiences

In 2019, the Government of Spain approved the Spanish Urban Agenda (AUE), conceived as a roadmap that will mark the strategy and actions to be carried out until 2030, to make Spanish towns and cities areas of friendly, welcoming, healthy and aware coexistence. The AUE facilitates the development of develop particular Action Plans to all stakeholders, public and private, who seeks to intervening in cities promoting equitable, fair and sustainable development, from their different fields of interventions.
The AUE is defined as a lever policy within the framework of the Action Plan for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Spain and responds to the fulfillment of the international commitments adopted in accordance with the 2030 Agenda, the New Urban Agenda and the Agenda Urban for the European Union.
Four years after the approval of the Agenda, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda of the Government of Spain (MIVAU), with the collaboration of the University of Navarra, has published the Catalogue of Good Urban Practices within the framework of the Objectives of the Urban Agenda Spanish. This catalogue includes 66 projects and initiatives implemented in Spain in recent years – 60 respond specifically to the different objectives that the Spanish Urban Agenda compiles and six of them paradigmatic and traditional examples of integrated urban actions – aiming to generate knowledge in through examples of plans, actions and projects successfully implemented in towns and cities in Spain, all aligned with the strategic objectives promoted by the AUE.
Following this, in 2024, the UN-Habitat Office in Spain, with the support of MIVAU and with the collaboration of the Urban Housing Practioners Hub, has prepared the Catalogue of Good Urban Practices in Latin America. This publication includes more than 30 projects in 10 different countries on the continent.
The projects have been selected taking into consideration criteria of thematic relevance, innovation and geographical representation, in a way that reflects the particularities of the different regions and social realities of the continent. The good practices have been organized into 10 thematic areas related to sustainable urban development.
The catalogue also includes articles where experts from different Latin American countries and Spain, and with different professional profiles, reflect on the state of the art of sustainable urbanism in Latin America, and the challenges and opportunities that the social, political and economic reality define on the continent, in a context of multiple global crises.
Additionally, this second catalogue has been prepared in an interactive, innovative electronic format, accessible from any location, with the aim of facilitating the reading of the information and extend the reach of its impact.
The event will serve to present the two catalogues. In the case of Latin America catalogue, it will constitute its official presentation, for the first time.