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作者

Alexandre Oliveira Tavares;Mário Monteiro;José Leandro Barros;Pedro Pinto Santos

来源

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES,Vol.27,Issue.7

语言

英文

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作者单位

Earth Sciences Department, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Centre for Social Studies, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;Earth Sciences Department, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;Centre for Social Studies, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

摘要

Small and medium-sized cities represent the backbone of the European territory, promoting cohesion and an economic base for development. The study compares the spatial and temporal trajectories of land use in three small/medium-sized cities located in central Portugal, between 1958 and 2011. The cities of Viseu, Leiria and Castelo Branco were chosen because they are located in different urban sub-systems and because of the different factors that frame their alterations in land use, occupation and consequent urban development. The research evaluates the transformations, supported by indicators to explain the spatial dynamics of losses and gains and a principal component analysis compares the land-use trajectories for the three cities. The general results reveal an increase from the central part of the study areas to the periphery, contrasting with a continuous decrease of the agricultural parts, illustrating peri-urbanization and rururbanization processes. The study allows identification of the dynamics in the three analysed areas, highlighting the different rhythms of change and relating them to the particularities that exist in each city. The methodology represents an advantage for the analysis and evaluation of territorial dynamics related to land-use change, and made possible the identification of the different forces.