Spain presents the lowest density of settlements among European countries. We uncover that this anomaly cannot be accounted for by adverse geographic and climatic conditions. Using techniques from spatial econometrics, we identify the clusters that exhibit the lowest densities within Spain after controlling for geo-climatic factors: these areas mainly belong to Teruel, Zaragoza, Ciudad Real, Albacete, Sevilla and Asturias. We also explore the attributes that characterize the municipalities located in these low-density areas: larger population losses during the 1950-1991 rural exodus, higher shares of local-born inhabitants, longer distances to the province capital, higher shares of population employed in agriculture, and larger increases in regionalist vote after the Great Recession.
r/MapPorn
Let’s hope remote work brings people back to towns.
Madrid is a big black hole that eats everything that surrounds it
It calls my attention that the highly irrigated areas (Guadiana and Guadalquivir rivers’ meadows) kept more population than other rural areas despite the big emigration from Extremadura and Andalucía to industrialised areas (Madrid, Barcelona…)
The Plan Badajoz did “succeed” at the end? Is the Guadalquivir corridor more industrialised than it’s usually thought to be?
Mmm tortilla
In the first year of my History degree in Madrid, I remember making a trip in late autumn (or late winter, I don’t remember) through the Iberian System up to Molina de Aragón to see a few Iron Age sites.
The place looked like the Siberian steppe. there were completely bare hills with the occasional village of ten or twenty clustered houses lost in the middle of that brown sea as far as the eye could see.
It was a very surreal sight coming from the huge metropolis that is Madrid.
Está guapo el mapa la verdad
Hey, op. Very interesting work!
Since you mentioned, I was curious to know where is the zone in Barcelona with the highest population density.
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Spain presents the lowest density of settlements among European countries. We uncover that this anomaly cannot be accounted for by adverse geographic and climatic conditions. Using techniques from spatial econometrics, we identify the clusters that exhibit the lowest densities within Spain after controlling for geo-climatic factors: these areas mainly belong to Teruel, Zaragoza, Ciudad Real, Albacete, Sevilla and Asturias. We also explore the attributes that characterize the municipalities located in these low-density areas: larger population losses during the 1950-1991 rural exodus, higher shares of local-born inhabitants, longer distances to the province capital, higher shares of population employed in agriculture, and larger increases in regionalist vote after the Great Recession.
r/MapPorn
Let’s hope remote work brings people back to towns.
Madrid is a big black hole that eats everything that surrounds it
It calls my attention that the highly irrigated areas (Guadiana and Guadalquivir rivers’ meadows) kept more population than other rural areas despite the big emigration from Extremadura and Andalucía to industrialised areas (Madrid, Barcelona…)
The Plan Badajoz did “succeed” at the end? Is the Guadalquivir corridor more industrialised than it’s usually thought to be?
Mmm tortilla
In the first year of my History degree in Madrid, I remember making a trip in late autumn (or late winter, I don’t remember) through the Iberian System up to Molina de Aragón to see a few Iron Age sites.
The place looked like the Siberian steppe. there were completely bare hills with the occasional village of ten or twenty clustered houses lost in the middle of that brown sea as far as the eye could see.
It was a very surreal sight coming from the huge metropolis that is Madrid.
Está guapo el mapa la verdad
Hey, op. Very interesting work!
Since you mentioned, I was curious to know where is the zone in Barcelona with the highest population density.