Browsing by Author "Jimenez Barrado, Victor"

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    Evolution and Management of Illegal Settlements in Mid-Sized Towns. The Case of Sierra de Santa Barbara (Plasencia, Spain)
    (2020) Jimenez Barrado, Victor
    The illegal urbanization of rural areas near cities has unveiled failures in urban management. In many cases, urban policies have ignored this fact until the spaces have consolidated. This is the example of the Sierra de Santa Barbara (Plasencia, Spain), where legalization becomes one of the most feasible solutions. The present work analyses its residential evolution during the last four decades through historical orthophotos review. Along with this, it evaluates public-private conflicts (homeowners vs municipal government) using regional newspaper archives. The results indicate that the strategy of ignoring illegal development increases these problems, leading to legalization as the only possible urban policy. In conclusion, the administration's response is delayed and forced by critical consequences, which prevents learning in urban policies and new solutions that join legality and sustainability.
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    Flood risk and imprudence of planning in Extremadura, Spain
    (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2020) Jimenez Barrado, Victor; Campesino, Antonio Jose; Alvarado, Voltaire; Hidalgo, Rodrigo; Borsdorf, Axel
    The natural risks of flooding inherent to Mediterranean climates is a well-known fact, but one difficult to gauge and rarely accurately in terms of space, quantity and degree. Fortunately, in Spain the national Cartographic System for Flood Areas (SNCZI) partially compensates for the deficit, calculating the probability of these natural phenomena. The present paper describes the number, location and characteristics of the homes exposed to flooding in Extremadura. The methodology used in the study reveals in great detail the clandestine homes built on land not apt for urban development (via scans and visual detection techniques using the available series of ortho-rectified aerial photographs), particularly those at flood risk (determined by SNCZI cartography). This reveals deficiencies in risk management and land use. Also, the information leads to the conclusion that current action from the Administration is ineffective in preventing any risk of flooding, and that the risk is known, but ignored.
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    THE RESIDENTIAL FUNCTION IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA REGULATION OF THE UNDEVELOPED LAND
    (UNIV LISBOA, CENTRO ESTUDOS GEOGRAFICOS, 2019) Jimenez Barrado, Victor; Malheiros, Jorge; Campesino Fernandez, Antonio Jose
    The integration of the residential function beyond the limits of the urban and developable land in the legislative frameworks has had a distinct and incomplete character. Faced with an identical phenomenon in general, called urban sprawl, the competent governments in this matter within the Iberian Peninsula have opted for a dissimilar assimilation of it, materialized in different legal and instrumental mechanisms. The objective of this paper is to present the different ways of understanding and regulating this new urban model by the Portuguese state government and the regional autonomous governments in Spain. To do this, a comparative analysis is carried out on the criteria for the classification of undeveloped land and a review of the most paradigmatic tools for the management of periurban and rurban development. The works indicate a position that is still indeterminate and, sometimes, contradictory. In spite of this, there is a tendency towards the regulated inclusion of the residential function outside the geographical contexts that have traditionally supported it.