Los límites difusos de los territorios periurbanos: una propuesta metodológica para el análisis de su situación socioeconómica y procesos de cambio

Since the first half of the 20th century, processes of large increase and expansion have been going on in urban areas of several cities around the world. As a result, a new model of a scattered and diffuse city is already extended to planetary scale. Is makes it more and more difficult to define what is urban and what is rural, as well as to clearly delimitate the physical and socio-economic boundaries separating the former from the latter. In that context, peri-urban territories - which are spaces with hybrid rural-urban characteristics - gain more and more importance as spaces whose socio-ec...