City benchmarking: A methodological proposal referring specifically to Granada

This paper incorporates the results of applying benchmarking and information systems to strategic city management. The main objective is to put forward a methodological proposal for diagnosis, which, alongside other types of urban research, will provide valuable information or knowledge for city planning. City benchmarking enables us to make a comparative identification of those key elements that will help guide future lines of strategy to be implemented, as well as serving as the basis for evaluating the results. This is possible in the analysis phase by using basic descriptive statistics and readily interpretable graphic representations. The final part of the research presents the most significant results of the comparative evaluation of municipal diagnostic indicators applied to the regional context of Andalusia, using the capital of the province of Granada as a referent city.