Sustainable territorial development and urban growth: a critical interaction. The spanish mediterranean coast, and Catalonia, during the last two decadas
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https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.v7i20.2577Keywords:
Remote Sensing, Spatial Planning, Urban Growth, Land Cover, Sustainability.Abstract
The paper aims to provide a reflection about the different types of models of urban growth in relation to the territorial natural context, it means an investigation about those relationships established between natural environment and human involvement which often, and especially in recent years, have generated not a few conflicts in the balance among urban / non-urban combination. Certainly, the urbanization process is affected by natural and administrative factors, but it is clear that there is a tendency to occupy the most productive and most profitable portions of landscape. If we look at how urbanization has spread over territory during the last twenty or thirty years, and we concentrate on its forms of occupying the soil, we have the clear suspect that urbanization, above all in the Mediterranean area, and even more toward the immediate coastal line, has underwent a process of uncontrolled, uncoordinated planning, almost without care for environmental problems. An important piece of evidence is that, in 2006, the first kilometre of coastal territory, along the Spanish Mediterranean coast, was 30% urbanized; this percentage, which was as low as 22% in 1990, goes down flatly already in the second kilometre (16% in 2006) to reach very low values at a distance of 20 or 40 kilometres.Downloads
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