Urban sprawl in Spain: differences among cities and causes

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

doi:10.1080/09654313.2015.1080230

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“…Studies have explored determinants of urban expansion, which can be grouped into natural and socioeconomic factors [5,6]. Nature feature, such as geological conditions [7], slope, elevation [8] and climate [9] are considered fundamental for urban development and partly determinate the suitability of construction land [5,6,10]. Socioeconomic factors such as economy growth [11], population growth [12], social process [13,14], infrastructure and transport [5,15,16], national policies and institutions [17,18] are main driving forces.…”

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Determinants of Urban Expansion and Spatial Heterogeneity in China

Zhang

Ying

et al. 2019

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China is the world’s largest developing country and its regions vary considerably. However, spatial heterogeneity in determinants of urban expansion in prefecture-level cities have not been identified. The present study explored the spatiotemporal characteristics of Chinese urban expansion and adopted a geographically weighted regression (GWR) method to determine this spatial heterogeneity. The results indicated that China experienced massive urban expansion during 1990–2015, with urban areas growing from 4.88 × 104 km2 to 1.06 × 105 km2, 46.42% of which was distributed in the eastern region. The results of the GWR model revealed the spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of urban expansion. Marketization was vital for urban expansion and had a stronger impact in the developed eastern and southern regions than in the less-developed northern and western regions. Globalization and decentralization bi-directionally affected urban expansion. The constraining effects of physical factors were limited and stronger in the developing northern region than in the developed southern region. Identifying the varying determinants of urban expansion is essential for policy-making in various regions.

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Determinants of Urban Expansion and Spatial Heterogeneity in China

Zhang

Ying

et al. 2019

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“…However, there are still authors that define inaccurately this spatial phenomenon as urban sprawl (Rubiera Morollón, González Marroquin & Pérez Rivero, 2016). It should be more adequate to define this landscapes as diffused city or peri-urban landscapes, because urban sprawl is the result of a wide suburbanization process (Hayden, 2004).…”

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The spatial diffusion of economic activity in the Oviedo region (1970-2018)

Muñiz

2019

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La dispersión de las actividades económicas en la comarca de Oviedo durante las últimas décadas ha tenido como consecuencia una profunda alteración de su modelo territorial. La tradicional dicotomía entre paisajes rurales y urbanos se presenta hoy en día borrosa, debido a que funciones netamente urbanas han ido desplazándose hacia las zonas rurales. La construcción de autopistas y otras infraestructuras de transporte junto con diferentes políticas e inversiones públicas y privadas, además de un marco legal laxo en lo relativo a la ordenación territorial y la abundancia de suelos de topografía llana constituyen los principales factores que explican este proceso transformación. Mediante el uso de fotografías aéreas históricas y datos recopilados por instituciones públicas, en este artículo se elaboran varios mapas temáticos con el fin de comprender las fases y la distribución del proceso de difusión espacial. La secuencia espacio-temporal de los cambios paisajísticos nos ayuda a comprender los procesos de construcción de los paisajes periurbanos en áreas caracterizadas por la difusión de funciones así como el papel de éstas en la configuración del paisaje.

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“…Until the Great Recession of 2008, the overall population of Spanish metropolitan areas had continually been expanding (Gil-Alonso and Bayona 2012; De Cos 2007). Spain's traditional compact city model had been substituted by one favouring urban sprawl (Pujadas 2009;Garcia-Coll 2011;Rubiera et al 2015) and a less dense urban structure (Muñoz 2011), particularly in Madrid and Barcelona. Therefore, these larger and more mature metropolitan areas were becoming increasingly complex (Feria and Albertos 2010).…”

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New Spatial Mobility Patterns in Large Spanish Cities: from the Economic Boom to the Great Recession

Carrasco

Alonso

Rubiales-Pérez

et al. 2017

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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Until 2008-the beginning of the economic crisis-Spanish metropolitan areas were characterised by relatively high residential mobility, suburbanisation, and urban sprawl. Municipalities situated farthest away from the core cities were the areas that were expanding more rapidly, while urban cores were losing native population that was being replaced by foreign immigrants. All these features presumably changed when the Great Recession hit the Spanish economy and the housing bubble burst. Using two INE (Spanish National Statistical Institute) data sources, the Padrón, or local register, and the Estadística de Variaciones Residenciales, or residential moves statistics, this paper studies changing trends in residential mobility and migration between 1999 and 2012 in Spain, focusing on the country's main urban areas: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Seville. In particular, internal migration patterns during the economic expansion and crisis periods are compared. Despite the fact that high unemployment since 2008 has certainly affected pre-crisis trends, results show that residential mobility has decreased much less than expected. Nevertheless, territorial patterns have changed and are now much less polarised. Urban cores and inner-ring towns, which had previously been losing inhabitants because of people moving to outer-ring areas, are now losing less native population. By contrast, suburban municipalities, which had been the most attractive to internal migrants during the economic growth period, are now much less appealing, as corroborated by the fact that practically no new housing is being built in these areas and their housing market has plummeted.

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Urban sprawl in Spain: differences among cities and causes

Cited by 72 publications

References 28 publications

Determinants of Urban Expansion and Spatial Heterogeneity in China

Determinants of Urban Expansion and Spatial Heterogeneity in China

The spatial diffusion of economic activity in the Oviedo region (1970-2018)

New Spatial Mobility Patterns in Large Spanish Cities: from the Economic Boom to the Great Recession

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