With the growth of urban areas, cities are the centres of the great challenges of our society. Urban form influences the metabolism of cities in multiple ways and mobility is one of them. Depending on the type of urban fabric, population, and activities located in them, travel needs and modes of transport differences appear. As population is diverse, this relationship between urban form and mobility probably has significant gender gaps that should be investigated. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the correlation between the type of urban fabric and people's mobility patterns, looking for significant gender differences in the number of trips and the mode of transport. Data were collected from the survey done for the Mobility Plan of the Metropolitan Area of Valencia and cadastral information. For statistical analysis, the PSPP program and Pearsonʹs correlation coefficient were used. This paper demonstrates significant differences in relation to gender and modes of transport. Women use more sustainable modes of transport, especially in dense and compact cities. Urban sprawl increases mobility, especially trips using private motorised modes. On the contrary, more sustainable modes, like by foot, on bike, or using public transport, are used in compact cities. Looking for sustainable mobility, women and density are key aspects which land planners must take into account when designing cities.

The occupation of rural land by dwellings, mainly secondaries and in most cases irregulars, has been a widespread practice in Spain, and in particular in the Comunitat Valenciana. The current regulations on spatial and urban planning and landscape want to provide a solution through special procedures to solve many environmental and urban problems posed by houses built on rural land outside of planning.One of the conflicts that arise with the new regulations is how to manage the minimization of the territorial impact of these homes affected by a floodplain area, in which the owners are required to adopt measures to reduce vulnerability and self-protection for existing buildings, considering the urban planning regulations of the Territorial Action Plan on flood risk prevention in the Comunitat Valenciana (PATRICOVA), whose application began in 2003. In this article, the first thing analyzed is the dimension of the problem using geographic information systems to overlay cartographies and the studies of the procedures and standards involved. Then, a reflection on how to articulate both norms to suppress the conflicts that seem to exist is presented.