Territorial Processes and Recent Changes in the Valencian Urban System.

Abstract

From the early 90's the Valencian territory has undergone dramatic changes, affecting the different elements which conform its urban system: The increase of commuting, new tendencies in demography growing, a significant urban growth and a development of public policies which have improved the territory's general accesibility and the functional size of urban centres. The goal of this paper is to show the development undergone by the Valencian cities system from the early 90's, when the last in-depth study about this subject saw the light out of the unborn Plan of Urban Development. This analysis has been made under request of the regional government of Valencia in the frame of the Valencian Territorial Estrategy draft