vol 37 | n o 110 | abril 2011 | pp. 89-115 | artículos | ©EURE Cambios en la estructura territorial debidos a nuevas conexiones de alta velocidad en territorios aislados: la provincia de Ciudad Real en España Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, España. resumen | Las lógicas de trazado de las infraestructuras de transporte y de conexión de las principales áreas urbanas nacionales no responden necesariamente a la lógica territorial de los espacios intermedios que atraviesan. Este debate se plantea en el contexto de la Alta Velocidad Ferroviaria (AVF). Se analiza la evolución en los últimos 25 años de un territorio alejado de las grandes metrópolis, con una estructura acéfala y núcleos de pequeño tamaño, que recibe dos estaciones de AVF, la provincia de Ciudad Real en España. Se combina el estudio de estadísticas nacionales de movilidad y migración con encuestas de movilidad discrecional. Estas últimas resultan ser claves para comprender la evolución de estos espacios para los que además no existen suficientes estudios. El artículo muestra cómo la AVF contribuye a reforzar la jerarquía provincial y cómo aumenta la vinculación de todo el territorio con las grandes áreas urbanas externas.palabras clave | Ciudades intermedias, movilidad, planificación territorial, reestructuración territorial, sistema urbano.abstract | The logic with which transport infrastructure is laid out is not always consistent with the territorial structure and logic of the intermediate space it traverses. The debate is set out in the context of High Speed Rail (HSR). The article deals with the territorial changes in the last 25 years of an isolated territory with an acephalic structure of small cities that receives two HSR stations: the province of Ciudad Real in Spain. National statistics on labour mobility and migration are combined with two discretionary-trip surveys. The latter turn out to be a key element for understanding the development of these isolated territories, which represents an aspect that has not been dealt with in relevant literature. The article shows that HSR helps build territorial cohesion and increases connections with large, external metropolitan areas.

The case of Madrid is used as empirical focus to propose a new classification of the metropolitan region urban medium-sized or secondary city system. Based on a methodology that integrates the morphological (size, location and socioeconomic history) and the functional dimensions (centrality index, advanced producer services (APS) concentration and commuting), the article compares new employment centres-cities with metropolitan origin-and historical cities-previously free standing cities, progressively integrated in metropolitan processes. The results show a distinction between (1) metropolitan cities, with a traditional intermediation role, and (2) metropolitan intermediary cities, that include an additional quality to their traditional intermediation role, that of concentrating APS. The article confirms that some medium-sized cities-metropolitan intermediary cities-linked to different origins and up to 100 km away from the metropolis are more visible in the global scene and are establishing an emerging global multicore-network at a metropolitan-regional scale.

The processes of metropolization of the territory foster the phenomena of spatial polarization that determines a growing state of economic and social fragility of the "inner peripheries" connected to infrastructure and environmental problems. In this context, the scientific debate and political agendas highlight the centrality of mobility, which redesign the "fast and slow areas" of the countries, the access to services and the potential for sustainable development, feeding or weakening the vital lymph of the territory, the flows of people and goods. The Right to Mobility, aimed to guarantee connections and accessibility, constitutes a fundamental part of a regeneration strategy to ensure a new urban welfare, within the framework of the resilience tracks for fragile territories. In this context, the reflexion illustrated in this document is part of the research activity that the group of academics of the Universities La Sapienza, Roma Tre, UCLM and UPC are developing in the framework of urban and territorial regeneration issues, deepening the relationships between urban planning mobility, infrastructures and territorial regeneration and highlighting the challenges fostered by the presence of dismissed railways.

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