Containing Urban Sprawl: Trends in Land Use and Spatial Planning in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona

Carril, Valeríà Paül i; Tonts, Matthew

doi:10.1080/0964056042000308139

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“…The present study discovered landscape change paths in Greece and their possible impact on landscape diversity using spatial analysis and multivariate statistical models. Results pointed out the usefulness of comparative and multi-temporal approaches to landscape changes in complex regions [23,[105][106][107][108][109].…”

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Rural Districts between Urbanization and Land Abandonment: Undermining Long-Term Changes in Mediterranean Landscapes

Zambon

Ferrara

Salvia³

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The present study investigates changes in the rural landscapes of a Mediterranean country (Greece) over a long time period encompassing economic expansions and recessions. Using a spatial distribution of 5 basic agricultural land-use classes (arable land, garden crop, vineyards, tree crop and fallow land) derived from official statistics at 6 years (1970, 1979, 1988, 1997, 2006, 2015), a quantitative analysis based on correlation and multivariate techniques was carried out to identify recent changes in the Greek agricultural landscape at prefectural level during different economic waves. Empirical results evidenced both intuitive and counter-intuitive landscape transformations, including: (i) a progressive, spatially-homogeneous reduction of cropland; (ii) a (more or less) rapid decrease in the surface of high-input crops, including arable land, horticulture and vineyards; (iii) a parallel increase in the surface of tree crops, especially olive; (iv) a spatially-heterogeneous decrease of fallow land concentrated in metropolitan and tourism districts, especially in the last decade; and, finally, (v) increasingly diversified landscapes in rural, accessible areas close to the sea coast. Based on a correlation analysis with background socioeconomic indicators, our findings reflect the multiple impacts of urbanization and land abandonment on the composition and diversity of rural landscapes. Changes in agricultural land-use were moulded by multiple drivers depending on latent transformations in rural systems and inherent conflicts with expanding urban regions. Together with market conditions and the Common Agricultural Policy subsidy regime, social contexts and the economic cycle are important when identifying long-term changes in agricultural landscapes, especially in transitional socio-ecological systems.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Rural Districts between Urbanization and Land Abandonment: Undermining Long-Term Changes in Mediterranean Landscapes

Zambon

Ferrara

Salvia³

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…The city of Barcelona, for example, has possessed an agricultural park since 1998. Llobregat park is situated 7 km from the centre of the metropolis and serves as the lungs of the city, lungs that are active, productive and evolving (Paül 2004;Paül and Tonts 2005). It provides certified farm produce that takes advantage of the proximity of the city.…”

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“Grand Paris”: regional landscape change to adapt city to climate warming

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Lion²,

Ambenje³

et al. 2012

Climatic Change

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"Grand Paris" is a study carried out by ten teams of researchers and city planners in the aim of putting forward general guidelines for Paris urban area's evolution by 2030. All the teams suggest making the area "greener" in some way, to combat climate warming by CO 2 sequestration. Our team also shows that extending the nearby forests by 30 %, favouring short farm-to-consumer circuits and using lighter coloured building materials will decrease the urban heat island, reducing the mortality during heat waves as well as the need for air-conditioning. These results lead us to reverse the way of thinking urban planning: the geographic and natural aspects should replace the urban infrastructure as a driver for planning urban development. This new strategy allows city changes on quite a large scale, that will have a favourable impact in terms of economics, leisure activities, greenhouse gas emissions and the local microclimate.

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“…Land use changes have been analysed in recent years through new techniques and sources of information, which have led researchers to quantify these processes more accurately. Peri-urban agriculture land use transformations and planning regulations have been studied for Andalucia by PerezCampana (2015), for the metropolitan region of Barcelona by Paül and Tonts (2005) where an urban sprawl process tended to isolate pockets of peri-urban agriculture, and for medium-sized towns by Simón et al (2014).…”

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Challenges for the revitalisation of peri-urban agriculture in Spain: Territorial analysis of the Madrid and Oviedo metropolitan areas

Alonso¹,

Muñiz

Aja³

et al. 2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Containing Urban Sprawl: Trends in Land Use and Spatial Planning in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona

Cited by 152 publications

References 11 publications

Rural Districts between Urbanization and Land Abandonment: Undermining Long-Term Changes in Mediterranean Landscapes

Rural Districts between Urbanization and Land Abandonment: Undermining Long-Term Changes in Mediterranean Landscapes

“Grand Paris”: regional landscape change to adapt city to climate warming

Challenges for the revitalisation of peri-urban agriculture in Spain: Territorial analysis of the Madrid and Oviedo metropolitan areas

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