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La Manga case study: Consequences from short-term urban planning in a tourism mass destiny of the Spanish Mediterranean coast
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Highlights Retrospective analysis of urban development in La Manga del Mar Menor (Spain). Feedback between the urbanization process and its behaviour as tourism product. GIS analysis of short-term urban planning consequences in La Manga. Current decline as a tourism product because of the change of urban model.
Abstract Urban planning is a lengthy and settled process, the results of which usually emerge after several years or even decades. That is why it is necessary for a proper urban design of cities to use parameters that are able to predict and gauge the potential long-term behaviour of urban development. In the tourist towns of the Mediterranean coast, the long-term design is often at odds with the generation of business profits in the short term. This paper presents the results of this phenomenon for an interesting case of a Spanish Mediterranean coastal city created from scratch in the 1960s and turned into a tourist destination today hypertrophied. La Manga del Mar Menor in the Murcia region every year reaches a population of more than 250,000 people during the summer, which is reduced to just a few dozen in winter. This crowded environment with an asymmetric behaviour submits annual progressive impoverishment in its economic return. This questionable profitability is the result of a misguided urban development; its results are analyzed through the evolution of the land market and the resulting urbanization in the last fifty years, with a GIS methodology.
La Manga case study: Consequences from short-term urban planning in a tourism mass destiny of the Spanish Mediterranean coast
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Highlights Retrospective analysis of urban development in La Manga del Mar Menor (Spain). Feedback between the urbanization process and its behaviour as tourism product. GIS analysis of short-term urban planning consequences in La Manga. Current decline as a tourism product because of the change of urban model.
Abstract Urban planning is a lengthy and settled process, the results of which usually emerge after several years or even decades. That is why it is necessary for a proper urban design of cities to use parameters that are able to predict and gauge the potential long-term behaviour of urban development. In the tourist towns of the Mediterranean coast, the long-term design is often at odds with the generation of business profits in the short term. This paper presents the results of this phenomenon for an interesting case of a Spanish Mediterranean coastal city created from scratch in the 1960s and turned into a tourist destination today hypertrophied. La Manga del Mar Menor in the Murcia region every year reaches a population of more than 250,000 people during the summer, which is reduced to just a few dozen in winter. This crowded environment with an asymmetric behaviour submits annual progressive impoverishment in its economic return. This questionable profitability is the result of a misguided urban development; its results are analyzed through the evolution of the land market and the resulting urbanization in the last fifty years, with a GIS methodology.
La Manga case study: Consequences from short-term urban planning in a tourism mass destiny of the Spanish Mediterranean coast
García-Ayllón, S. (author)
Cities ; 43 ; 141-151
2014-12-09
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English