Review of the General Urban Development Plan of Teruel: third Time Lucky?

The General Urban Development Plan (GUDP) in force in the municipality of Teruel, approved in 1985, will be valid for no less than forty years. After two failed review processes, a third is underway. No longer considering expansive approaches, the revision of the GUDP decidedly incorporates the principle of sustainability in urban planning, as mandated by both state and regional law. As a result, a dense, compact and continuous city model is proposed -as opposed to the city with low density, diffuse and fragmented-, in which the recovery of the existing city and the correction of the traditional polarization in the city's distribution of equipment (located in the North and South ends) will play a fundamental role. New realities must be considered, some already materialized and others on the horizon, such as the logistics and airport platforms, the A-40 highway and the railway bypass; as well as the emergence of COVID-19.