RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Diffuse urbanisation and irregular urban growth: processes and trends in medium-sized cities in the Castilla y León region (Spain) T2 Urbanização difusa e crescimento urbano irregular: processos e tendências nas cidades médias da região de Castilla y Leon (Espanha). A1 Andrés López, Gonzalo A1 González González, María Jesús K1 Medium-sized cities K1 Diffuse urbanization K1 Irregular urban growth K1 Castilla y León K1 Cidades médias K1 Urbanização difusa K1 Crescimento urbano irregular K1 Villes moyennes K1 Urbanisation diffuse K1 Croissance urbaine irrégulière K1 Ciudades medias K1 Urbanización difusa K1 Crecimiento urbano irregular K1 Urbanismo K1 City planning K1 Geografía K1 Geography AB The process of extension and growth of medium-sized cities towardstheir surrounding municipalities in recent years has not occurred in a linear or fully definedmanner. Instead, in most of these intermediate nuclei, urban growth has been diffuse andirregular, generating processes of discontinuous extension. By virtue of the types of usesimplemented in recent urbanization, different spatial impacts have occurred. Moreover,each dynamic has been affected in a specific way by the economic crisis, which has sloweddown and / or paralyzed many of these developments initiated in the final years of the 20thcentury. This paper reflects on how these urbanization processes have taken place inmedium-sized cities in the region of Castilla y León, proposes an analysis of recent trendswhich, since 2000, have configured complex and diverse urban areas around the centralnuclei of these cities. PB Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Geográficos SN 0430-5027 YR 2019 FD 2019-12 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6404 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6404 LA eng NO Data for this paper were obtained as part of the research project CSO2015-63970-R and RTI 2018-096435-B-C22 with the financial support by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 28-mar-2024