Tesis doctoral de Jorge Alberto Montejano Escamilla
The main axis of this phd thesis are the spatial, functional and structural transformations, occurred within the central area of the camp of tarragona, between 1977 – 2008, with special emphasis on locational changes of production, distribution and consumption and its impact on the built environment. To introduce the concept of territorial metropolisation, the investigation is preceded by a theoretical section which reviews its different ways structural causes, comparing both cases: the north american and the european one. the main goal of this research is to observe and compare changes in clusters of intermediate cities that shows dispersion, agglomeration and polarization, in a similar way bigger metropolitan areas had revealed through time. The aim is thus to show the current trend of intermediate cities to follow similar processes of metropolisation although with specific characteristics that have been developed before by larger urban areas. aside of identifying the changes in the hierarchical relationships and highlighting the new territorial structures generated by the postindustrial logic of localization of production, distribution and consumption (polarities, clusters, dispersions, networks), we verify the hypothesis that states there is a general tendency of metropolitan areas to shift their land use into services, by detecting innovative events, such as the transformation of big portions of land into service oriented spaces. the main goal of this research is to increase awareness about the shortage of urban studies of the metropolisation process that has been happening in intermediate cities, phenomena widely studied for larger metropolitan areas. the investigation seeks to demonstrate how these intermediate cities tend to follow a different way of metropolisation, mainly because they are subdued to what happens in larger metropolitan areas, and they follow a regional logic in an attempt to be part of a major regional network, rather than been (the metropolisation) a local urban initiative. Also, we had foreseen that the central area of the camp of tarragona due to the rapidness of the changes observed, could be in a years from now a new form of conurbation, yet still hosting metropolization processes. these approaches have been verified by developing and analyzing thematic maps, which records territorial changes in a specific time range and that allow us, through the development of a small gis, a qualitative analysis (what and in what had the space been transformed) and a quantitative one (how many). The produced maps have answered questions regarding trends, specific corridors, polarizations, or changes in land use at large scale. keywords: camp de tarragona, intermediate cities, tertiarization, metropolisation, urban sprawl, regional planning, production, distribution, consumption.
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral «Metropolozación del territorio y regiones urbanas intermedias: el caso del ámbito central del camp de tarragona 1977/2008«
- Título de la tesis: Metropolozación del territorio y regiones urbanas intermedias: el caso del ámbito central del camp de tarragona 1977/2008
- Autor: Jorge Alberto Montejano Escamilla
- Universidad: Politécnica de catalunya
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 28/09/2010
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Antonio Font Arellano
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: manuel De sola morales rubio
- joan Trullén thomas (vocal)
- david Mangin (vocal)
- josep Oliveras samitier (vocal)