Delimitación y caracterización morfométrica del área metropolitana de Valencia

Morphometric Indicators for the Definition of New Territorial Units in the Periurban Space: Application to the Metropolitan Area of Valencia (Spain)

“…It is also very useful because it is a constantly updated database, due to its fiscal purpose. As limitations, it is emphasized that it requires knowledge of the database to perform adequate data cleansing of constructive elements, as detailed in [13].…”

“…The morphological units we use as a basis for our morphometric analysis are those resulting from the application of the methodology designed by [44] to the 2019 digital cadastral mapping of the municipalities included in the metropolitan area of Valencia, the first results of which were published in [13]. The most relevant aspect of this procedure is that it allows to identify, from the spatial pattern itself, a distance threshold that allows us to delimit and map significant groupings of built spaces of different sizes, which in this article we call urban morphological units.…”

“…The most relevant aspect of this procedure is that it allows to identify, from the spatial pattern itself, a distance threshold that allows us to delimit and map significant groupings of built spaces of different sizes, which in this article we call urban morphological units. In [13], the point of maximum curvature of the dilation curve was identified, which is the one that reveals a major spatial discontinuity along the scales. The corresponding distance threshold separates two distinct morphological spatial subgroups in fractal terms.…”

“…To overcome this difficulty, in this article we use a delimitation of territorial units based on fractal methodology, which makes it possible to avoid administrative boundaries, identifying areas of dispersed supra-and infra-municipal urbanization based on the morphology of the area [13]. The fractal methodology makes it possible to identify the spatial limits of an urban pattern from the data itself, without the need to use a prior threshold, making it ideal for identifying the "natural" spatial units defined by the spatial pattern of the built space itself.…”

La delimitación de las áreas metropolitanas como instrumento de gobernanza: el caso de la Comunidad Valenciana

“…Además de estos ejercicios, que podrían considerarse de naturaleza institucional, numerosos trabajos de naturaleza académica se han ocupado, como cabría esperar, de la delimitación de áreas metropolitanas en las diferentes comunidades autónomas, abordando esta tarea a partir de fuentes de datos y enfoques muy diversos que a menudo se alejan de los procedimientos más comúnmente utilizados en el ámbito internacional, pero aportan una riqueza metodológica en la agregación de nodos de la red viaria (Salom & Albertos, 2010 o en la metodología fractal (Salom-Carrasco et al, 2021;Salom-Carrasco & Zornoza-Gallego, 2024) En todo caso, frente a las delimitaciones con fines académicos o estadísticos, aquellas destinadas a la gobernanza territorial, en este caso la gobernanza metropolitana (es decir las orientadas a la administración, planificación y gestión de la nueva ciudad metropolitana), como la que aquí se aborda, deben estar engarzadas con un adecuado reconocimiento de su escala, naturaleza, fines y marco socioinstitucional (Feria-Toribio, 2013b). Frente a las primeras, que son unidimensionales y con propósitos de información estadística y conocimiento, las segundas son multidimensionales y normativas (orientadas a la acción).…”