Diffuse processes of urbanization and fragmented urban structures: The case of Toledo (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
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Urbanization, urban structure, urban fragmentation, Toledo, land registryAbstract
The city has grown in a very expansive and diffuse way driven by speculation and
capitalist profit. This fact gives rise to a process of urban disintegration. Capitalist urbanization,
construction and property speculation, generate a model of diffuse intense urban expansion.
The resulting urban structures are fragmented and scattered. This essay discusses the case of
Toledo, city of historical origin and capital of the Spanish autonomous community of Castilla
- La Mancha nowadays. Toledo is analyzed using a deductive method, based on bibliographic
work, observation and the use of urban real estate cadastre, the urbanization process that has
given rise to an intense fragmentation of the urban structure of the city. Due to recent
commercial and speculative urbanism, the urban planning of the city has facilitated this
constructive impulse. 55.5% of the city properties were built between 1990 and 2010. The
result is a very diffuse and disjointed city with big interstitial spaces. Understanding this
process should serve to avoid making the same mistakes in the future and look for another city
model.
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