Urban Growth and Long-Term Transformations in Spanish Cities Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Methodology to Determine Changes in Urban Density

Alvarez‐Palau, Eduard J.; Martí-Henneberg, Jordi; Solanas-Jiménez, Jorge

doi:10.3390/su11246948

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“…HISDAC-ES provides a valuable data source for urban analysts, regional planners, and policy makers, enabling or upscaling the quantitative measurement and interpretation of long-term urbanization and land development processes (e.g., Arribas-Bel et al, 2011;Alvarez-Palau et al, 2019;Sapena and Ruiz, 2019;Zornoza-Gallego 2022b;Domingo et al, 2023). Together with the sister product HISDAC-US, it will enable the comparative study of urban size, shape, and morphology over long time periods, across different continents and across historical as well as cultural settings.…”

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confidence: 99%

HISDAC-ES: Historical Settlement Data Compilation for Spain (1900–2020)

Uhl

Royé²,

Burghardt

et al. 2023

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Abstract. Multi-temporal measurements quantifying the changes to the Earth’s surface are critical for understanding many natural, anthropogenic, and social processes. Researchers typically use remotely sensed earth observation data to quantify and characterize such changes in land use and land cover (LULC). However, such data sources are limited in their availability prior to the 1980s. While an observational window of 40 to 50 years is sufficient to study most recent LULC changes, processes such as urbanization, land development, and the evolution of urban, and coupled nature-human systems often operate over longer time periods covering several decades or even centuries. Thus, to quantify and better understand such processes, alternative historical-geospatial data sources are required that extend farther back in time. However, such data are rare and processing is labor-intensive, often involving manual work. To overcome the resulting lack in quantitative knowledge of urban systems and the built environment prior to the 1980s, we leverage cadastral data with rich thematic property attribution, such as building usage and construction year. We scraped, harmonized, and processed over 12,000,000 building footprints including construction years to create a multi-faceted series of gridded surfaces, describing the evolution of human settlements in Spain from 1900 to 2020, at 100 m spatial and 5 years temporal resolution. These surfaces include measures of building density, built-up intensity, and built-up land use. We evaluated our data against a variety of data sources including remotely sensed human settlement data and land cover data, model-based historical land use depictions, as well as historical maps and historical aerial imagery, and find high levels of agreement. This new data product, the Historical Settlement Data Compilation for Spain (HISDAC-ES), is publicly available (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22009643; Uhl et al., 2023a) and represents a rich source for quantitative, long-term analyses of the built environment and related processes over large spatial and temporal extents and at fine resolutions.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

HISDAC-ES: Historical Settlement Data Compilation for Spain (1900–2020)

Uhl

Royé²,

Burghardt

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…The reason for founding the Superblock model in Barcelona city stems from the following factors, necessitating a functional change in our environment: climate change; scarcity of green areas; high density; high levels of noise and air pollution; road accident rates; the tendency towards individualization and sedentarism among young children, teenagers and young adults and the social isolation and lack of independence of older people [22]. These are all features where public spaces can improve the quality of human beings' lives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Superblocks, a grid of primary roads and blocks forming a polygon, are approximately 400 by 400 m [23]. Within the Superblocks, pacified interior roads will provide a local road network accessible primarily to active transport (e.g., cycling and walking) and secondary to residential traffic with a maximum speed of 20 km/h [22]. The Superblocks will be enclosed by the primary road network that links the city and accommodates traffic at a 50 km/h maximum speed [21], as shown in Figure 3.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It only requires a functional change using the existing structure block, which will lead to a complete modification in city mobility, reduction of carbon emissions, urban traffic, and increased city livability [25], as shown in Figure 4. A city transforms into a public space, considering it is the "house of everybody," a meeting place for interchange, leisure, culture, staying, expression, democracy, and movement [22].…”

Section: Improving Barcelona's Urban Livabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spatial enclosure assessment toward more livable urban communities in Aswan city

محمد¹,

Ahmed

Farouk

2022

الدورية العلمية لکلية الفنون الجميلة

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Livability is one of the primary guiding principles for policy-making and urbanists, of which the evaluation and definition have become the crucial research topic of countering. The micro-scale living conditions necessitate more urgent attention as the progress in socio-economic development accelerates. However, few researchers have addressed the evaluation criteria of urban livability at spatial enclosure scales as community scale. Therefore, this paper aims to create an urban communitylevel balanced weight evaluation statistical system, as residential communities are one of the basic units of urban living places. Twenty-nine objective indicators are selected to establish the indicator system. Considering different age groups, a comprehensive evaluation framework for communities' livability combines objective indicators and subjective perceptions. Accordingly, this study is applied to assess the urban microscale livability of residential communities in Aswan City. There are significant results from the study. Different age groups have distinct demands for an urban community's livability. They have valued some indicators and concentrated on the following two dimensions: pedestrians' rights and convenience of transportation. Finally, the communities' livability shows a decreasing spatial pattern from the city center to the surroundings. These empirical findings may be helpful to urbanists and other parties as stakeholders for future development.

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“…Southeast Spain is a major enclave of residentialism in Europe [13]. The group began to grow slowly with the advent of mass tourism in the area of Benidorm (Alicante) [14] and extended to different beach areas between the cities of Valencia and Almeria [15]. In 1976, the sociologist Mario Gaviria [16] published a book on winter tourism and settlements of foreigners in Alicante.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Impact of Retired Immigrants on Quality of Life for the Local Aging Population: Results from the Southeast Spanish Coast

Valero-Escandell

Amat-Montesinos

Cortés-Samper

2022

IJERPH

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The immigration of foreign retirees to Spain’s southeast coast is a tradition that stretches back decades. This phenomenon has modified the demographic structure of many towns and also transformed their social and economic features, as well as the number and diversity of services available to the population. This study examines the effect of post-employment immigration on economic revitalisation, the increase in services and the arrival of new inhabitants. It demonstrates the transformative potential of the phenomenon for pre-coastal areas in the Spanish southeast and its influence on the configuration of friendly residential environments. The study analyses the evolution of basic demographic data and its spatial behaviour, establishing relationships between the quality of life of the local aging population and retired immigrants. The analysis focuses on the impact of residentialist areas on the configuration of friendly living environments. The results show how these communities, which were once somewhat stagnant and had a significantly aging population, either participated in the development or have improved their access to certain services and facilities, configuring new environments. The results reflect the improvement of the quality of life for the elderly in these settings, considering that they are often the majority age group.

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Urban Growth and Long-Term Transformations in Spanish Cities Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Methodology to Determine Changes in Urban Density

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

HISDAC-ES: Historical Settlement Data Compilation for Spain (1900–2020)

HISDAC-ES: Historical Settlement Data Compilation for Spain (1900–2020)

Spatial enclosure assessment toward more livable urban communities in Aswan city

The Impact of Retired Immigrants on Quality of Life for the Local Aging Population: Results from the Southeast Spanish Coast

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