Greater Barcelona
| Metropolitan Area of Barcelona | |
|---|---|
| administrative area | |
| Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona | |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Catalonia |
| City | Barcelona |
| Government | |
| • Type | integrated territorial bodies |
| • President (Mayor) | Ada Colau |
| Area | |
| • Total | 636 km2 (246 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 3,239,337 
|
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| Website | http://www.amb.cat |
The Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (Catalan: Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona), often referred to as Greater Barcelona, is a territorial entity operating on the principle of metropolitan municipality composed of Barcelona and 35 adjacent municipalities around the city. This territorial entity integrated by three territorial executive bodies and has a population of 3,239,337 (Idescat, 2014) within an area of 636 km2. It is the main core of the Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona, which has a population of 5,012,961 and Barcelona metropolitan area, with a population of 5 million.
The three executive bodies are:
The AMB is responsible for three areas: territorial planning, urban planning and infrastructures of metropolitan interest.
The AMB plans and manages bus networks and other public transports, except for trams.
Its competencies, apart from planning and management, are:
The competencies on environment and sustainability are linked to three areas: water cycle, waste products and environment.
Waste
Other competencies
The AMB exerts the competencies in land and housing policies established by the urban legislation. It does so by delegation of metropolitan municipalities and to ensure intermunicipal solidarity in these actions.
The AMB aims to promote economic activity, employment and entrepreneurship in the areas of industry, trade, services and tourism resources.
Social cohesion is one of the objectives of the creation of the AMB and is the principle by which all policies concerning urban planning, transport, environment, infrastructures and assistance to metropolitan municipalities are defined.
The aim is to achieve a cohesive and united metropolitan development, in which the benefits and costs of living in the metropolitan area are equally distributed among its inhabitants, regardless of the municipality in which they live.
To fulfil this aim, the competencies of the AMB also include the following ones:
The Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona is set on the central Catalan Coast and around the capital. The metropolitan area can be divided into two zones:
* ICV-E included in the 2015 coalitions in Comú Badia - Entesa i Barcelona Comú - Entesa.
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