The impact of the outskirts on city organization: Present-Day Madrid

Authors

  • José Miguel Santos Preciado

Keywords:

Periferia urbana, áreas suburbanas, ciudad difusa, ciudad global, áreas metropolitanas

Abstract

The paper tells us that City structure in developed nations is undergoing change due to the impact upon it of developing information and transport systems . Ford's single nucleus metropolitan model is giving way to a multi- nuclei and its more complicated variant in which the outlying city zones bring about a decentralizing of activity and the imposing of a dispersed city complex. Recently gathered information leads the author to see some change in the Madrid metropolitan picture with a slight decentralizing in the tertiary sector, advances in the ring-roading of the capital, a rise in single housing family stock and an on-going decentralizing of industrial activity, such change being, although appreciable, insufficient to mark a significant alteration in
the city's long-standing make-up .

Published

2000-12-21

How to Cite

Santos Preciado, J. M. (2000). The impact of the outskirts on city organization: Present-Day Madrid. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 32(126), 669–688. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/74960

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