145362 20241024135330.0 doi 10.7480/iphs.2024.1.7609 sideral 140244 ART-2024-140244 eng Monclús, Javier Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-1950-3084 Processes and planning of peri-urban landscapes in Spanish cities The role of Urban Planning, Environmental Planning and Landscape 2024 The phenomenon of suburbanisation is as old as cities themselves, as urban history shows. How-ever, the ways in which cities have colonised new spaces have changed over the course of time. Contemporary urban landscapes show a widespread decentralisation of tertiary activities, where-as the industrial era witnessed the exponential growth of residential and industrial peripheries. The spread of various infrastructures, particularly roads and rail, has contributed to the formation of what is now commonly called “new peripheries” or “peri- urban zones.” Existing in a transition-al state between the purely rural and the urban, these areas have a distinct character. The paper seeks to identify and evaluate strategies implemented in six Spanish cities in recent decades, with a view to highlighting their importance in requalifying, preserving, or revitalising heritage and eco-cultural values within twelve case studies. The analysis relies on the identification of risks and opportunities for the12 areas studied, which were derived from a previous study. We have analysed the transformation of these areas over the last 50 years (1970-2020) from different per-spectives: land use, urbanisation processes, changes in the road and rail systems, use of buildings, green and blue infrastructures, etc. This is followed by a critical examination of the existing and emerging urban planning and landscape strategies and instruments in the cities under study, par-ticularly concerning the selected areas. The study shows that the proliferation of planning instru-ments alone does not guarantee the conservation or revitalisation of these peri-urban landscapes. We focus on those strategies that seek to maintain and enhance environmental and landscape quality. Open space management, sectoral policies, comprehensive interventions such as soft in-frastructure, river parks or green corridors have also been analysed in landscape plans and proj-ects. The aim is also to identify the most effective ones, which can help guide future interventions. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Díez Medina, Carmen 5015 815 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Arquitectura Área Urbanística y Ord.Territ. 20 (2024), 1319-1331 Int. plan. hist. soc. proc. International planning history society proceedings 2468-6948 2386179 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145362/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1573056 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145362/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:145362 articulos driver 2024-10-24-12:11:16 ARTICLE