This paper is a partial result of a wider research project that attempts to assess the changes in the urban and peri-urban fabric soils of the municipality of Valencia from 1944 to 2004. The research presented focuses on the analysis of the nature of the changes and the dynamics of these over time in the area of La Punta, a town administrated by the city of Valencia (Spain) and located in the district of Quatre Carreres. The methodology is based on the analysis and measurement of changes in land structure, in the land use, in the occupation of building and in the forested areas presented in the traditional structure of nonurban roads. The key to measure such changes have been the use of the Cadaster of 1929-1944; 1972; 1989; orthophoto collections from the Valencian Regional Library and evolution of mapping from the SIOSE. The most outstanding results refer to the surprising resilience of some elements of the structure of the Huerta de Valencia and the discovery and identification of "landscapes" (plural) result of the different dynamics of change.

This paper is a partial result of the Research Project 'Strategies for sustainable regeneration in tourism settlements on the mediterranean coast (ERAM)' (ref. BIA2011-28297-C02-01) Spain National Plan of Research, 2011. The method has been designed with the purpose of identifying the different settlements pattern of the littoral municipalities of the Valencia Region, using the alphanumeric data of Cadastre to achieve this goal. The method has been applied to 59 littoral municipalities, after which the outputs were checked with those from the SIOSE project and from the ERAM's Project partial results 'Typology Map of touristic settlements of the Valencia region'. As the main output obtained, it should be highlighted how the methodology allows a good identification of the parameters in contrast with other reference-based projects. Moreover, we can get a more accurate clustering of morphology thanks to the use of lots divisions elaborated by the Cadastre. This method is possible to be extended to other municipalities allowing some clustering operations by mixing attributes to achieve more general morphologic patterns.