Juli Esteban Noguera
Juli Esteban i Noguera (Girona,Spain 1944) is an expert in urban and regional planning.
Throughout his professional career he has held positions of responsibility in the public sector in Barcelona city, its metropolitan area and Catalonia (North East Spain). He also has an extensive career in the private sector and has been an advisor to municipalities in Brazil, Argentina, Cuba and Italy among others. He has written several books and papers on urban and regional planning making a valuable contribution to this field for which he was awarded an “honorary Professorship” by the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in 2012.
His professional career in the public sector can be divided in three main phases: Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (1983-1992), Municipality of Barcelona (1992-2004) and Government of Catalonia (2004-2012).
As a head of planning and urban management for the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (1983-1992) he led transformative projects for example the plan for the Metropolitan Coast of Barcelona, and the conversion of the Collserola Mountain range into a metropolitan park shared between several municipalities. This took place in was one of the most intense periods for public work development.
Since 1992 (Barcelona Olympic Games), to 2004 (International Forum of the Cultures) he worked in Barcelona City Hall as head of the Urban Studies Office with a goal of developing and designing innovative ideas and urban solutions for Barcelona. This office played a key role in the development of new projects during the post-Olympic period, such as the new centre in Sant Andreu-Sagrera or transforming old factory buildings into new enterprise hubs areas (i.e. Poblenou and 22@).
In 2004 he was appointed General Director of Regional Planning for the Government of Catalonia. In this role he led the development of the Regional Plan for Catalonia consisting of seven regional plans covering the whole region of Catalonia (33,000 sq Km). The regional plans were approved by the Government of Catalonia in what was a landmark for a region that up to date had not had any plan at this geographical scale. The development of these plans put in practice new thinking including new urban plans targeted to specific needs and geographical areas (i.e. director plans) and set new methodologies and processes for working in regional planning, something which had not been done before in Catalonia.
His career as a free-lance professional was developed as a member of team TAU a small Urban Architecture practice co-founded with two other architects specialised in town planning. Throughout this period he worked in several urban plans for various towns in Catalonia. The Municipal Town Plan for Mollet del Vallés was award the Town Planning National Prize (1984)
Juli Esteban has helped develop new thinking and moved forward the debate around planning, innovating on methods and practice and its application to different geographical scales. Throughout his books, papers, lectures he has made a significant contribution to the professional and academic communities of architects and urban planners in Spain. Two of his books “Urban planning elements” (1980) and “The urban planning: concepts, tools and practices”(2001) have been edited several times and are recommended as background reading in most Urban departments of Spanish Universities.
In addition to the cited books, he has been actively involved in the field of education. He spent a few years teaching as a lecturer of Town Planning in the Barcelona Architecture University. Since 1980 he has been teaching in many courses and masters for multidisciplinary graduates and professionals in order to improve their knowledge and skills for planning and urban management.
Throughout his professional career he has held positions of responsibility in the public sector in Barcelona city, its metropolitan area and Catalonia (North East Spain). He also has an extensive career in the private sector and has been an advisor to municipalities in Brazil, Argentina, Cuba and Italy among others. He has written several books and papers on urban and regional planning making a valuable contribution to this field for which he was awarded an “honorary Professorship” by the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in 2012.
His professional career in the public sector can be divided in three main phases: Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (1983-1992), Municipality of Barcelona (1992-2004) and Government of Catalonia (2004-2012).
As a head of planning and urban management for the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (1983-1992) he led transformative projects for example the plan for the Metropolitan Coast of Barcelona, and the conversion of the Collserola Mountain range into a metropolitan park shared between several municipalities. This took place in was one of the most intense periods for public work development.
Since 1992 (Barcelona Olympic Games), to 2004 (International Forum of the Cultures) he worked in Barcelona City Hall as head of the Urban Studies Office with a goal of developing and designing innovative ideas and urban solutions for Barcelona. This office played a key role in the development of new projects during the post-Olympic period, such as the new centre in Sant Andreu-Sagrera or transforming old factory buildings into new enterprise hubs areas (i.e. Poblenou and 22@).
In 2004 he was appointed General Director of Regional Planning for the Government of Catalonia. In this role he led the development of the Regional Plan for Catalonia consisting of seven regional plans covering the whole region of Catalonia (33,000 sq Km). The regional plans were approved by the Government of Catalonia in what was a landmark for a region that up to date had not had any plan at this geographical scale. The development of these plans put in practice new thinking including new urban plans targeted to specific needs and geographical areas (i.e. director plans) and set new methodologies and processes for working in regional planning, something which had not been done before in Catalonia.
His career as a free-lance professional was developed as a member of team TAU a small Urban Architecture practice co-founded with two other architects specialised in town planning. Throughout this period he worked in several urban plans for various towns in Catalonia. The Municipal Town Plan for Mollet del Vallés was award the Town Planning National Prize (1984)
Juli Esteban has helped develop new thinking and moved forward the debate around planning, innovating on methods and practice and its application to different geographical scales. Throughout his books, papers, lectures he has made a significant contribution to the professional and academic communities of architects and urban planners in Spain. Two of his books “Urban planning elements” (1980) and “The urban planning: concepts, tools and practices”(2001) have been edited several times and are recommended as background reading in most Urban departments of Spanish Universities.
In addition to the cited books, he has been actively involved in the field of education. He spent a few years teaching as a lecturer of Town Planning in the Barcelona Architecture University. Since 1980 he has been teaching in many courses and masters for multidisciplinary graduates and professionals in order to improve their knowledge and skills for planning and urban management.
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