In the postwar period, the strong economic growth in Western countries coincided with the configuration of their modern urban planning systems. This article aims at exploring to what extent the targets of the economic planning that was broadly adopted in this growth period conditioned the performance of urban planning tools by analyzing the case of Spain. During the so-called “Spanish miracle” that started in the early 1960s and lasted until the mid-1970s, there were notable contradictions between economic and spatial planning policies and between the performance of the national and the municipal governments. It is concluded that the lack of an integrated approach to regional and urban planning policies at national level combined to the gap with the actual local planning framework, illustrated through the example of three cities, can help to understand the patterns of urban growth in a context of an expanding economy.

战后时期，西方国家强劲的经济增长与现代城市规划系统的配置相吻合。本文旨在通过分析西班牙的案例，探讨在此增长时期广泛采用的经济规划目标在多大程度上限制了城市规划工具的绩效。在所谓的“西班牙奇迹”期间（始于1960年代初，一直持续到1970年代中期），经济和空间规划政策之间以及国家与市政府的绩效之间存在明显的矛盾。结论是，在国家一级缺乏对区域和城市规划政策的综合方法，加之与实际的地方规划框架之间的差距，以三个城市为例，