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Recent trends of urban development and town planning in Spain

Rainer KleinErdmann Gormsen

subject

GeographyApartmentEnvironmental protectionUrban planningUrbanizationGeography Planning and DevelopmentHuman geographyEconomic geographySocial classTown planningHouse buildingBoom

description

With the socio-economic change from rural to industrial, Spain has experienced an enormous urbanisation boom during the last 20 years. This has produced a concentration of high-rise apartment blocks not only in the big cities but also in medium-sized towns and even within the medieval town centres. More astonishing, compared with Central Europe, seems however, the spatial distribution of the social classes which, with a centre-periphery gradient, still corresponds to the model of the pre-industrial town. The paper investigates the impact of town planning, house building policy, and behavioural aspects on these structural patterns.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1986-07-01GeoJournal
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00190688