OBJECTIVES

• Promote and coordinate research of a consolidated team of teachers simultaneously members of the Department of Geography and Urban Planning Institute of the University of Valladolid, primarily oriented process analysis and dynamic urban and territorial; the study, proposal and evaluation of urban policies and models of municipal management and local governance.
• Become permanent observatory of urban policies in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American cities, by constantly adopting of a comparative analysis which is based on network cooperation with foreign researchers approach.
• Analysis and diagnosis of territorial and urban dynamics, instruments of strategic planning, urban planning, regional planning and local development; policy instruments and urban management in the development and cohesion of the local-municipal life and urban competitiveness, in specific areas such as bases: social integration (social facilities and other elements of dotacional system whole), urban sustainability policies and development of Local Agenda 21 industrial land; transport infrastructure high-capacity spaces logistics activity and intra-urban mobility; recovery policies of historic centers, public space recovery and rehabilitation of the built heritage; tourism policies and planning of tourist areas; programs covered in intercity cooperation.

RESEARCH LINES

• Urban Heritage.
• Tourism policies and planning of tourist areas.
• Urban policies; town planning; management of economic activities.
• Regional Planning; Infrastructures and transport.

ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP

• Jesús García Araque
• José Luis García Cuesta (GIR coordinator)
• Maria Esther Gil Álvarez
• Ignacio Molina de la Torre
• Henar Pascual Ruiz-Valdepeñas
• José Prada Trigo
• Irene Sánchez Ondoño