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Assessment of the Urban Land Area in the Municipalities of the Community of Madrid in 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018
José Manuel Naranjo Gómez (Polytechnic School, University of Extremadura, Spain),
José Cabezas (University of Extremadura, Spain), and José Martín-Gallardo (University of Extremadura, Spain)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4548-8.ch004
Abstract
The city of Madrid is the capital of Spain, and the urban sprawl has been important and continuous over the years. There has been a spillover effect since the use of urban land has increased in the municipalities around the capital. Among other factors, the price of housing is increasingly high in Madrid. Thus, in the municipalities near the capital, the population makes trips to work but then returns to their municipality to reside, where the housing price is lower. Satellite images through Land Cover Corine have made it possible to quantify the hectares destined for urban use in 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018 through a geographic information system (GIS). It has been possible to identify those municipalities of the autonomous community that have grown better as continuous urban fabric or discontinuous urban fabric. Therefore, it has been possible to identify municipalities most influenced by the capital.