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Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City Edited by Francisco Cebrián-Abellán, María José Piñeira-Mantiñán and Jesús Manuel González Pérez Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Urban Science www.mdpi.com/journal/urbansci Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City Land Squandering and Social Crisis in the Spanish City Special Issue Editors Jesus ´ M. Gonz´alez-P´erez Francisco Cebri´an-Abell´an Mar´ıa Jos´ePi˜neira-Mantin´ ˜ an MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade Special Issue Editors Jesus´ M. Gonzalez-P´ erez´ Francisco Cebrian-Abell´ an´ University of the Balearic Islands Castilla-La Mancha University Spain Spain Mar´ıa JosePi´ neira-Manti˜ n˜an´ University of Santiago de Compostela Spain Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Urban Science (ISSN 2413-8851) from 2018 to 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ urbansci/special issues/land squandering social crisis). For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03897-946-3 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03897-947-0 (PDF) c 2019 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editors ..................................... vii Francisco Cebri´an-Abell´an, Mar´ıa Jos´ePi˜neira-Mantin´ ˜ an and Jesus ´ M. Gonz´alez-P´erez Readings of the Post-Crisis Spanish City: Between Social Inequity and Territorial Destruction Reprinted from: Urban Science 2019, 3, 43, doi:10.3390/urbansci3020043 ............... 1 Francisco Cebri´an Abell´an and Irene S´anchez Ondono ˜ Urban Sprawl in Inner Medium-Sized Cities: The Behaviour in Some Spanish Cases Since the Beginning of the 21st Century Reprinted from: Urban Science 2019, 3, 10, doi:10.3390/urbansci3010010 ............... 8 Irene S´anchez Ondono ˜ and Luis Alfonso Escudero G´omez Land Squandering in the Spanish Medium Sized Cities: The Case of Toledo Reprinted from: Urban Science 2019, 3, 16, doi:10.3390/urbansci3010016 ............... 25 Arlinda Garc´ıa-Coll and Cristina L´opez-Villanueva The Impact of Economic Crisis in Areas of Sprawl in Spanish Cities Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 113, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040113 .............. 42 Joan Checa and Oriol Nel·lo Urban Intensities. The Urbanization of the Iberian Mediterranean Coast in the Light of Nighttime Satellite Images of the Earth Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 115, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040115 .............. 61 Alvaro-Francisco´ Morote, Jorge Olcina, Antonio-Manuel Rico and Mar´ıa Hern´andez Water Management in Urban Sprawl Typologies in the City of Alicante (Southern Spain): New Trends and Perception after the Economic Crisis? Reprinted from: Urban Science 2019, 3, 7, doi:10.3390/urbansci3010007 ............... 78 Elia Canosa Zamora and Angela´ Garc´ıa Carballo The Failure of Eco-Neighborhood Projects in the City of Madrid (Spain) Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 111, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040111 .............. 96 Roxana-Diana Ilisei and Julia Salom-Carrasco Urban Projects and Residential Segregation: A Case Study of the Cabanyal Neighborhood in Valencia (Spain) Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 119, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040119 ..............120 Juan M. Parreno-Castellano, ˜ Josefina Dom´ınguez-Mujica, Maite Armengol-Mart´ın, Tanaus´uP´erez Garc´ıa and Jordi Boldu ´ Hern´andez Foreclosures and Evictions in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during the Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis Period in Spain Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 109, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040109 ..............139 Antonio Palacios, Ana Mellado and Yazm´ın Le´on Qualitative Methodologies for the Analysis of Intra-Urban Socio-Environmental Vulnerability in Barcelona (Spain): Case Studies Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 116, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040116 ..............154 v Aina Gom`a Garcia and Joel Munoz ˜ Aranda Segregated in the City, Separated in the School. The Reproduction of Social Inequality through the School System Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 112, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040112 ..............168 Luis del Romero Renau Touristification, Sharing Economies and the New Geography of Urban Conflicts Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 104, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040104 ..............181 V´ıctor Jim´enez and Antonio-Jos´e Campesino The Clandestine Transition towards an Unsustainable Urban Model in Extremadura, Spain Reprinted from: Urban Science 2018, 2, 103, doi:10.3390/urbansci2040103 ..............198 vi About the Special Issue Editors Jesus ´ M. Gonz´alez-P´erez has a Ph.D. in Geography and has been an Associate Professor at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain), Assistant Professor in the Master of Spatial Planning and Environmental Management of the University of Barcelona (Spain), and Visiting Scholar (2015) and Visiting Professor (2016) at Stanford University. He has also been a visiting researcher at thirteen European and American universities. He has contributed as author to more than 150 national and international publications. He was a member of a research team that has undertaken a total of 30 funded research projects. Dr. Gonzalez´ is currently Chairman of the Urban Geography Group of the Association of Spanish Geographers and a member of the Urban Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union. Professor Gonzalez´ is an expert evaluator for different Spanish scientific agencies. He is also a member of the scientific or editorial committees of seven international journals and a reviewer for another 30. Francisco Cebri´an Abell´an has a Ph.D. in Geography. He has been an Associate Professor and Director of the Master Degree in Rural Tourism and Local Development at the Castilla–La Mancha University. He has been a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, and visiting professor at different European, North American, and Latin American universities. He has contributed as an author to more than 50 book chapters and more than 60 congress contributions, and he has written 23 articles in specialized journals. He has taken part as a researcher in 15 national and international research projects. At the moment, he leads one that pays attention to urban sprawl in medium-sized Spanish cities. He is currently Chairman of the Latin American Group of the Association of Spanish Geographers. He is an expert for different Spanish scientific agencies, and he is a reviewer and member of the editorial board of different geographic journals. Mar´ıa Jos´ePi˜neira-Mantin´ ˜ an has a Ph.D. in Geography. She is Lecturer Professor at the Department of Geography, in the University of Santiago de Compostela. She has experience teaching in Spanish and foreign universities, both in undergraduate courses, as in the third cycle in Galicia, Portugal, Brazil and Barcelona. She has participated in 35 projects and contracts under public funding which. At the moment, she leads one that pays attention to rehabilitation processes in historic cities, the impact of housing bubble in Spain, smart cities, poverty and social exclusion in the cities. She has stayed as researcher in foreign research institutes (Norway, Ecuador, Italy, France-Paris1, Brazil) and has published numerous books and articles in international Journals. Currently she is the vice president of Geographers Professional Association, vice president of the Urban Geography Group of the Association of Spanish Geographer and member of the Steering Committee of the IGU Urban Geography Commission. She is an expert for different Spanish scientific agencies, and she is a reviewer of several international journals. vii Editorial Readings of the Post-Crisis Spanish City: Between Social Inequity and Territorial Destruction Francisco Cebrián-Abellán 1 , María José Piñeira-Mantiñán 2 and Jesús M. González-Pérez 3,* 1 Department of Geography and Land Planning, Faculty of Humanities, Campus Universitario s/n, Benjamín Palencia Building, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 02071 Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; [email protected] 2 Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography and History, University of Santiago de Compostela, Praza da Universidade, 1, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain; [email protected] 3 Department of Geography, Guillem Colom building, University of the Balearic Islands, Cra. de Valldemossa km 7.5, 07122 Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +34-971-172380 Received: 10 April 2019; Accepted: 11 April 2019; Published: 16 April 2019 Abstract: The 2008 crisis entailed a turning point in the process of creating and managing cities and territories. There has been a change from a city model, based on expansive growth, which was also speculative and deregulated, had provoked an unprecedented expansion of the outskirts of towns and cities, and the artificialization of thousands of hectares of land, to a model based on the reconstruction of the original city, before the impact
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