This increases urban vulnerability in large Spanish cities

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This increases urban vulnerability in large Spanish cities







Vulnerable neighborhoods can be areas with great potential for urban transformation and that is precisely where the interest in knowing and delimiting them lies. The Research Group in Urban Architecture and Sustainability (GIAU + S) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) has studied the evolution of urban vulnerability in Spain between 1991 and 2011 and has presented its results in the form of a catalog.



Each of the included neighborhoods meets the criteria of socio-economic vulnerability, but also the condition of being a homogeneous urban piece that meets the condition of a neighborhood and, therefore, capable of assuming a multidimensional intervention that allows its internal improvement and rebalancing with the rest of the city.



In the study, the 13 largest Spanish cities with more than 300,000 inhabitants were analyzed. Among them, they have 342 vulnerable neighborhoods and a population of 2,578,655 inhabitants. The resulting catalog contains the statistical analysis of the evolution of the vulnerability of each of the cities with special care in its cartographic representation, which allows a territorial analysis of urban vulnerability and its comparison both temporally and by type of vulnerability.



The methodology used in the work does not try to compete, nor substitute other works of statistical analysis whose objectives are more complex studies. What scientists have intended is that the indicators used are easily understandable and communicable and therefore useful for the debate on urban vulnerability in the cities studied.







For the authors, it is necessary to develop urban policies that give the delimited neighborhoods the status of a city in all its dimensions. (Photo: Pixabay)



As the authors of the study indicate, what is really significant is that in the period 2001-2011 there was a significant increase in urban vulnerability in Spain, similar to that detected in the period 1991-2001, passing the vulnerable neighborhoods of 621 in 2001 to 918 in 2011. This represents an increase of almost 50%, while the analyzed population grew by only 14%.



As Agustín Hernández Aja, one of the directors of the work, points out, "in the face of some hypothesis that the increase in urban vulnerability is the product of the crisis of 2007, these results reaffirm the observation, as a result of previous work, that there had been a significant growth in urban inequality in previous years, which means that urban policies, hitherto implemented, did not achieve the expected objectives ".



Thus, the apparent prosperity of our cities based on the quality of the new peripheries had as a correlate the depression on the part of the existing city, which lost part of its cash and resources and therefore increased its inequality indexes against the city as a whole. set.



"We can also point out from the results of the 2001-2011 period that significant areas of the central areas have lost their vulnerable status, probably at the expense of transferring part of their initial inhabitants to more peripheral areas," they emphasize in the study. .



"With this work we intend to expand the vision we have about urban vulnerability in our cities, make us reflect on its possible causes and ways to remedy them. It is a work with vocation of utility, whose final objective is to point out the need to develop urban policies that give the delimited neighborhoods the status of city in all its dimensions, allowing its inhabitants to maintain, and if necessary recover, their citizens' status ", concludes Hernández Aja. (Source: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

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