La distribución de competencias legislativas en materia de urbanismo y vivienda

Abstract

City planning is not a power shared between State and Autonomous Commu-nities according to a basic legislation-implementation scheme. Autonomous Communities’ job is to establish the model of city and land, the configuration of cities and acquisition of planning faculties. The State’s job is to determine a common frame through detailed ele-ments. The most important State powers by means of whom it can affect city planning are three: urban property, either in its public-legal side definition of its content and protection vis-à-vis public authorities, either in its civil side or in relationships between particulars; expropriation and the respective criteria of valuation; and also administrative liability. The State legislative frame is to be integrated by general and abstract parts but they cannot im-pose or think about a unique possible model of city planning