The CEyD will use the following tools to secure its objectives:

• A strategic project monitoring service. The objective is carry out pinpoint monitoring and make comparisons with other cities and their strategic projects. Studies can be made, for example, of the Parque Central; the Madrid-Valencia and Valencia-Frontera AVE rail links; the Megaport; advanced services and the knowledge-driven economy; immigration; social capital; the information society; citizen security, etc.
• Archive of new projects. The idea is to organise the most groundbreaking urban projects in the major cities of the EU, North America and Latin America into strategic categories. An Internet and face-to-face suggestions service will also be set up so citizens can make their own proposals to the CEyD.
• Creation of creative thought zones. These zones are used to elaborate on new proposals designed to anticipate developments in the management of cities and in urban governance. The objective is to instil a culture of anticipation in the city and ensure continuity in terms of human progress.
• The creative thought zones are experimental resources for shaping ideas. They are open to creative professionals with extensive training in the content of the zones at a local, national and international level, but have not yet been used to set up a network or encourage extensive local empowerment as they are still in an experimental phase.
• Ongoing drafting and renewal of the city strategy. The CEyD aims to instil an entrepreneurial spirit in Valencia so as to:

1. Improve the city’s capacity for action and organisation.
2. Continue identifying new projects so that development is ongoing and sustained.
3. Strengthen the leading role of local government in the strategic management of the city.
4. Safeguard urban governance based on collaboration and a commitment to action by leading players.
5. Promote the development of complex projects creating structures.
6. Anticipate the strategic challenges facing European and Mediterranean cities.

• Management of project networks. The aim is to set up relationships and links between independent urban actors in order to develop a jointly agreed policy or project. The networks are newly-emerging nodes used to structure the development of complex projects in a single city. The successful operation of these networks involves linking common interests in which the philosophy of “I win, you win” and “I do, you do” comes to the fore.