METROPOLITANIZATION PROCESSES IN SPAIN: FROM THE TRADITIONAL CITY TO THE "CITY OF CITIES."

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1 METROPOLITANIZATION PROCESSES IN SPAIN: FROM THE TRADITIONAL CITY TO THE "CITY OF CITIES." Rubén C. Lois-González María José Piñeira-Mantiñán University of Santiago de Compostela National Plan for R&D CS

2 OVERWIEW The peculiarities of the current economic crisis in Spain The artificiality of space: the massive urbanization and large public works How did the territorial organization of Spain The territorial issue and the position of geography The culmination of metropolitanization amid crisis Here comes your footer Page 2

3 Provincial artificial surfaces in 1987 and Source: CORINE (OSE, 2006). Here comes your footer Page 3

4 Airport network in Spain. Source: Google-images. Here comes your footer Page 4

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6 Infrastructure Plan road Network of motorways in 2012 Source: National Geographic Atlas ( Source: Ministerio de Fomento, Here comes your footer Page 6

7 THE NEW SPANISH TERRITORIAL MODEL An accelerated process of urbanization, the growth of cities Urban sprawl : expansion of the central city, peri-urbanization and coastal development. The factors of urbanization: rural exodus and tourism boom Soil artificiality and image of progress Soil and exchange value: the sacredness of real estate Here comes your footer Page 7

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9 Percentage change in population Percentage change in population Source: Calvo, Pueyo (2008) Here comes your footer Page 9

10 Variation in population density Variation in population density Source: Calo, Pueyo (2008) Here comes your footer Page 10

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12 Móstoles-Madrid Hospitalet de Llobregat-Barcelona Here comes your footer Page 12

13 Seseña-Toledo Here comes your footer Page 13 Valdeluz-Guadalajara

14 Canarias Murcia Here comes your footer

15 Evolution of the average price per m2 of urban land Source: Ministerio de Fomento (2012) Here comes your footer Page 15

16 THE HOUSING BUBBLE AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES Analysis of the housing bubble and the crisis in the works of geographers Main thesis and study sites The focus of urbanization agents: from landowners to public managers The urban planning crisis as backdrop The financial basis of speculative economic growth Here comes your footer Page 16

17 Some data New housing: 1.7 million units in 1991 to 24.2 million in 2006 According to Housing Census data 2001, 6,467,053 non-core dwellings % were secondary and 48.03% were empty. In 2006 there were 510 dwellings per thousand inhabitants (European average of 468.4). Here comes your footer Page 17

18 Free house prices ( /m2) Currently there is a stock 676,038 homes, and although the prices of these have fallen by 23.6% since 2008, they still remain high. Changes in volume of transactions. Housing transactions, falling by 32.5% between , Source: Ministerio de Fomento. Here comes your footer Page 18

19 Conclusions The majority of Spanish cities have been affected to a greater or lesser extent by processes of urban expansion. Traditional cities have lost their attractiveness as a result of relocation and residential activities. Now it is diluted among other cities and small towns and their surroundings. Decline the concept of traditional city and metropolitan reality makes sense of what we could define as a "city of cities : an urban system in which each nucleus plays a role. - Large urban areas-metropolitan areas, such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Bilbao and Zaragoza - Diffuse coastal developments associated with tourism. - Conurbations, that is, areas where the growth of several urban settlements has led to the merger of their peripheries resulting in a continuous built-up area. - Medium and small cities where positive growth of the population is still recorded and the classic city-region relations are maintained. Here comes your footer Page 19

20 Thank you METROPOLITANIZATION PROCESSES IN SPAIN: FROM THE TRADITIONAL CITY TO THE "CITY OF CITIES." Rubén C. Lois-González María José Piñeira-Mantiñán University of Santiago de Compostela. Here comes your footer Page 20