Dispersión urbana en áreas metropolitanas policéntricas no coordinadas: análisis del caso asturiano mediante el uso de Sistemas de Información Geográfica

Marroquín, Victor Manuel González; Morollón, Fernando Rubiera; Rivero, José Luis Pérez

doi:10.5821/ace.8.24.2715

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Urban sprawl and local fiscal burden: analysing the Spanish case

2018

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Urban sprawl is rapidly occurring in many Spanish urban areas. The objective of this paper is to evaluate how the trend of building dispersion of new residential areas may be affecting the fiscal stability of local governments in Spain. The wide diversity of the characteristics of Spanish urban areas as well as the existence of very similar local fiscal structures make this case particularly interesting. After delimiting the urban areas and the spatial unit of analysis, a precise index of urban sprawl, calculated with geo-referenced digital cartography, is used. Using the spatially disaggregated information of taxes from the Spanish National Institute for Fiscal Studies allows for a measure of fiscal burden by local areas and the ability to distinguish among types of taxes. Control variables are also available at the local level from the Spanish Census and other databases. Two methods, quantile regressions and ordinary least squares, are used in order to measure not only the average change but the heterogeneity across the distribution of the local fiscal burden associated with the changes in urban sprawl, whilst controlling for other explanatory variables in the model. The results indicate that higher levels of urban sprawl imply higher local fiscal burden. By tax categories, the phenomenon of urban sprawl particularly affects both local indirect and direct taxation. These results suggest that local decision-makers should consider urban planning as one of the fundamental tools to assure longterm local fiscal sustainability.

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Urban sprawl and local fiscal burden: analysing the Spanish case

2018

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Usign GIS technologies for evaluatign urban sprawl in Asturias and Spain

Marroquín

Morollón

Rivero

2013

2013 International Conference on New Concepts in Smart Cities: Fostering Public and Private Alliances (SmartMILE)

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Urban sprawl is one of the main problems of modern urbanism. Cities too much sprawled produce more contamination and worst quality life conditions. The current urban policies attempt to slow the advanced society's tendency to generate sprawled cities. There are a lot of contributions in the urban economics literature that try to understand the causes of sprawl in order to propose policies to reduce it. Many of these papers put their attention on the local policy decentralization as a relevant factor which impulse the probabilities of suffering a dispersed city growth. In this paper we put our attention in a very common situation around Europe: emerging metropolitan areas which appear as a consequence of the growth of closer previous medium cities.The EU is very conscient of this problem. The document ESPON 1.1.1[6] is a nice reference about this subject. Just in Spain there are more than 60 cases that could be consider as this type of emerging metropolitan areas. We are applying Geography Information Systems to studying and contrasting several hypotheses in this case. Our result brings us to confirm that this case trend to generate sprawl due to the role of the small local areas, which are integrated in the emerging metropolitan space. However, this behavior could be easily avoided through a political integration of the new metropolitan area.

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Recent Literature about Urban Sprawl: A Renewed Relevance of the Phenomenon from the Perspective of Environmental Sustainability

Morollón

Yserte

2020

Sustainability

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The urban sprawl phenomenon has attracted the attention of social researchers since the mid-20th century. It seemed that all relevant aspects had been extensively studied and that it would be difficult to produce new studies with significant contributions. However, in the last decade, we have witnessed a revival of the literature on urban sprawl for three main reasons: (i) the existence of new methodologies to measure the phenomenon based on digital cartography and geo-referenced information, (ii) new hypotheses about the relevance of the formation of metropolitan areas not institutionally integrated into urban sprawl in many places and, mainly, (iii) the role of urban density in the environmental sustainability of cities. The recent literature on this third aspect has grown the most and around which it seems that new and interesting lines of future research will develop. The objective of this work is to present a synthetic review of the most recent literature on urban sprawl as of the end of the second decade of the XXI century. This review can serve to recapitulate the growing consensus that is being formed on the lower environmental sustainability of low-density cities and diffuse limits.

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Dispersión urbana en áreas metropolitanas policéntricas no coordinadas: análisis del caso asturiano mediante el uso de Sistemas de Información Geográfica

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Urban sprawl and local fiscal burden: analysing the Spanish case

Urban sprawl and local fiscal burden: analysing the Spanish case

Usign GIS technologies for evaluatign urban sprawl in Asturias and Spain

Recent Literature about Urban Sprawl: A Renewed Relevance of the Phenomenon from the Perspective of Environmental Sustainability

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