The effects of coronavirus on sustainable development objectives particulary linked to urban planning

Abstract

To alleviate the negative social, legal and economic effects of covid-19, not only strictly economic criteria can be used, but the achievement of the SDG targets must be intensified, placing the Human at the centre of sustainable development. State soil legislation and regional urban planning should incorporate the European model of territorial and urban development, which recognises the environmental value of the existing city, through the application of the principles of compactness, complexity and density motivated and justified in each case, as well as revalidate the legislative protection of rural spaces, currently threatened, in accordance with the principle of regresión. The territorial and urban planning has procedural disfunciones that will have to be corrected, but not abolished or replaced, since it remains the best way to implement public control over the territory, through territorial governance, concerted with all public and private actors, increasing channels for participation and gender equality, the management of the municipal land should aim to be the purpose, in addition to public protection housing, to promote comprehensive rehabilitation and regeneration actions, zero-energy buildings, the fight against climate change, the basic right to water, as well as preferably, in the coming years, measures to alleviate the effects of coronavirus.