¿Cómo medir el fenómeno urban sprawl a través de indicadores paisajísticos? Aplicación a la isla de Tenerife

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Spatial data infrastucture: development of spatial abilities in the framework of European Space for Higher Education

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Infraestructuras de datos espaciales: desarrollo de habilidades espaciales en el entorno del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior

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How to measure the urban sprawl phenomenon through landscape indicators: an application to the island of Tenerife

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¿Cómo medir el fenómeno urban sprawl a través de indicadores paisajísticos? Aplicación a la isla de Tenerife

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The Degraded Insular Landscape in the Urban-Rural Interface – Application to the Urban Agglomeration of the South of the Island of Tenerife

The urban agglomeration of the south of Tenerife is characterized by its accelerated and explosive conformation since the tourist boom of the 80s of the last century. This speed has caused radical landscape changes that have had environmental, economic, social, and spatial repercussions. We try to extract those landscape patterns that characterize this urban model but also to analyze and quantify the landscape degradation of the urban-rural transition zones existing between the tourist and non-tourist nuclei. Through the cartographic and graphic method, typical of spatial thinking and regional geographical analysis, we combine multiple components that characterize and synthesize the substance of the abiotic, biotic, and cultural elements. As a result, we have a diagnosis where the centrality of the tourist nucleus brings together economic activity, the movement of people and vehicles, but at the same time, allows the development of other former rural-based nuclei, transforming them into residential ones, as well as the explosion of buildings dispersed between them. We propose that planning should be based on the landscape patterns that characterize it, starting from the corridor that links the urban centers of the agglomeration

Infraestructuras de datos espaciales: desarrollo de habilidades espaciales en el entorno del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior

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Dark City, luminous city. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1980-2000)

El presente artículo es resultado del contrato de investigación «Desarrollo urbano y población» elaborado para el Avance del PGOU de Santa Cruz de Tenerife por miembros del Grupo de Análisis Territorial del Departamento de Geografía de la Universidad de La Laguna.En las dos últimas décadas, la ciudad de Santa Cruz de Tenerife experimenta una expansión de su espacio residencial caracterizada por el destacado papel de la iniciativa privada. La distribución de la actividad constructiva revela una clara divisoria entre la ciudad consolidada, donde predomina la promoción privada, y las periferias, que concentran la vivienda pública. Esta diferenciación residencial propicia nuevos procesos de segregación, reforzados por actuaciones del sector público realizadas al margen del principio de equidad social.During the last twenty years the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has experienced a residential development characterized by the remarkable role of private sector. Spatial distribution of housing shows a clear divide between the private-developed urban core and first-tier periphery, and the public housing peripheral fringes. This residential differentiation propitiates new segregation processes reinforced by the public sector developments lacking any concern about social equity