Organisation et fonctionnement de la Ville et de ses satellites

A seminar organized by Bordeaux Metropole and the BEST network in cooperation with the city of Barcelona.

Special thanks to its Chief Executive, Jordi Marti.

Nestled between the sea and the mountains, Barcelona is a city of 100 sq. km. where 1,605,000 people live (2015), resulting in a very high population density (16,000 people per sq. km.). It accounts for only 0.3% of the territory of Catalonia but accounts for 21% of the Catalan population (i.e. 7.5 million people). The metropolitan area of 36 towns, spread over 636 sq. km. with 3.2 million inhabitants, i.e. 43% of the population.
The foreign population is 16.3% of the city’s total population and Spaniards born abroad account for 20.7%. Some 32 million tourists visit the city every year, of whom 23 million only stop by for the day.

Ada Colau, the Mayor of Barcelona, was elected in 2015 for four years by the 41-member city council. Services are organized in five core areas of activity and, in geographical terms, in 10 districts and 73 neighborhoods. The City also controls 45 satellite entities with various legal statuses, such as municipal companies, local autonomous agencies, consortia, foundations, etc., gathered in a “holding company.”
City services, including the districts, employ 6,500 people and have a budget of €2.6 billion. The satellite entities employ 6,100 people and have a total budget of €900 million, giving the city a consolidated annual budget of €3.5 billion and a total of 12,600 employees.

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