Urbanization, land prices and territorial model: Recent evolution of Barcelona's Metropolitan Area

Authors

  • Manuel Herce Departamento de Infraestructuras del Transporte y Territorio, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612005009300003

Keywords:

urban development, land market, segregation, urbanization

Abstract

In European metropolitan areas, the development of networked infrastructures (mainly transport ones) is favouring the widening of urban growth business to much wider territorial areas. In such areas some processes of functional and socio-economic specialization are taking place simultaneously. This paper provides significant data on the accesibility changes produced in the metropolitan area of Barcelona and their correlation with urban growth and activities situation (bringing out the relationship between urbanizing pace and housing and land price increase). Likewise it identifies the appearing of new centrality and social specialization areas. The paper especially alerts on the generating of high-rental self-segregational areas connected by means of high-priced tolls, as well as geographical enclaves with potential marginality associated to retired population moving to old second residence areas.

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Published

2005-08-02

How to Cite

Herce, M. (2005). Urbanization, land prices and territorial model: Recent evolution of Barcelona’s Metropolitan Area. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 31(93). https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612005009300003