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T1 The Use of GIS and Multicriteria Techniques for the Socio-Spatial Analysis of Urban Areas in Medium-Sized Spanish Cities
A1 Cebrián Abellán, Francisco
A1 Andrés López, Gonzalo
A1 Bellet Sanfeliu, Carme
K1 Urban areas
K1 Medium-sized cities
K1 Geographic Information Systems (CIS)
K1 Geografía
K1 Geography
K1 Urbanismo
K1 City planning
AB In recent decades, particularly intense changes have occurred in Spanish urban areas. This is the result of demographic and urbanizing transformations that have led to a change in the city model. The predominance of compact forms has been replaced by the growing prominence of urban sprawl. Structures are now more extensive, characterized, in turn, by fragmentation and the notable consumption of land in the peripheries. In medium-sized cities, the municipalities bordering the central cities have concentrated the processes of suburbanization and periurbanization. This paper addresses the processes of change for 34 cities and their urban areas located in inland Spain. A proposal is made for the delimitation and characterization of urban areas, taking the municipality as the unit of analysis. At the methodological level, six variables are used, analyzed by means of multicriteria statistical techniques combined with the use of GIS tools. An Urban Transformation Index (ITU) has been developed that synthesizes urbanizing, demographic and socioeconomic dynamics (six variables related to population, housing and socio-productive structure are used). In the territorial area, the 20-min isochrone is used as a reference. In the temporal domain, the period of analysis addresses the events of the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
PB MDPI
YR 2023
FD 2023-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8714
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8714
LA eng
NO This research was funded by the public call for R+D+i projects granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN): Fragmentation and socio-spatial segregation in Spanish medium-sized cities and their urban areas (2001–2021). SUB 1– Sociospatial segregation and the geographies of everyday life in Spanish medium-sized cities and their urban areas. (PID2021-124511NB-C21). SUB 2—Spatial fragmentation and residential space (housing and public space) in Spanish medium-sized cities and their urban areas (PID2021-124511NB-C22).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 09-may-2024