URBANISMO Y CORRUPCIÓN: ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES DESDE EL DERECHO ADMINISTRATIVO

Authors

  • BLANCA LOZANO CUTANDA

Keywords:

urban planning, corruption, sustainable development, environmental protection.

Abstract

In recent months the front pages of newspapers have mentioned corruption scandals linked to land planning that have an enormous social and environmental impact. Among the causes of this phenomenon are highlighted the excessive discretional manner in which the town councils have exercised their planning functions, but according to an analysis of the autonomous legislation it appears that the Autonomous Communities have multiple legal instruments with which they can exercise control over the municipalities in the interests of urban development, and where they don’t exist they can be established by legislation, as was recently done in Andalucia. At the state level, the Land Law proposal currently being considered itself introduces several methods justified in the recognition, finally, of the land as a «natural, scarce and non-renewable» resource.

Published

2008-04-09

Issue

Section

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT OF SPAIN AND THE EUROPEAN UNION