Line of action:

Urban environments

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Mataró (Barcelona, Catalonia)

Geographic scope:

España

Line of research:

Urban Environments

Execution date:

2023

Duration:

01/07/23-31/12/2025

Total budget:

5.069.074,94€

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

3.999.500,13€

Mataró City Council

The project is based on various pre-existing initiatives (Green Belt, PAESC) and includes the development of the ‘Green Infrastructure Master Plan of Mataró’, as a strategic roadmap for the renaturalization of the city. The Plan foresees actions to connect urban spaces (parks, green areas and linear trees) and periurban spaces (streams and Green Belt) to the agricultural and forestry areas, based on actions with a great capacity for transformation and impact. Work will be carried out in the city’s two main parks, in seven smaller green areas, but with greater territorial coverage due to their decentralized location, as well as in 29 schoolyards, reinforcing and improving the network of green and renaturalized spaces in the city. In addition, linear trees will be reinforced to guarantee their ecosystemic service and connective function.

• Mataró Green Infrastructure Master Plan’.
• Ecological improvement and naturalization of the Riera de Sant Simó stream.
• Socio-environmental recovery of the Riera de Argentona stream.
• Enhancing biodiversity and resilience of Central Park and New Central Park
• Restoration of the Pollancreda Park and naturalization of the surroundings of the Llauder Tower.
• Adaptation of schoolyards as climatic refuges and educational spaces for biodiversity.
• Adaptation of urban green areas to the new parameters of biodiversity and climate change and improvement of the connective function of linear greenery.
• Governance and participation plan
• Communication and awareness plan
• Indicator measurement and monitoring plan