Best practice compendium: Barcelona and Barcelona Metropolitan Area

This document provides a summary of several methodologies, processes and tools that functional areas can consider adopting. By tailoring them to their unique territorial circumstances, functional areas can effectively address the challenges outlined within the below categories:

• Strategic and spatial planning, urban regeneration and smart financing of functional areas

• Carbon-neutral city, green mobility, energy-efficient neighbourhoods, housing and bluegreen infrastructure

• Civic engagement and stakeholder dialogue facilitation

• Governance, cross-border cooperation and cooperation networks

• Digitalisation and cloud

• Culture and creative industries

The topics addressed in this document were selected based on the presentations delivered by speakers during the study visit to Barcelona. The work on these issues is a result of the Spanish experts’ willingness to share their valuable insights and learned lessons with the functional areas participating in our project, specifically addressing the challenges currently relevant to their concerns.