EURMET - Urban Sprawl of the Metropoles (SO/1.1/F4)

Type:

International

State:

Concluded

Research Groups:

Geographic Modeling, Cities and Spatial Planning

Lead Researcher:

Jean-Paul Laborie (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes Urbaines - Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail - FRANCE)

e-Geo Team:

José António Tenedório (Portuguese coordinator), Saudade Pontes, Sara Encarnação

Institutional partners:

Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes Urbaines (CIEU) – Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail – FRANCE (coordenação geral);
e-GEO – Research Centre for Geography and Regional Planning, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – PORTUGAL;
Centro de Política de Suelo y Valoraciones (CPSV) – Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña – SPAIN;
Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC) – SPAIN.

Funding:

EU Initiative INTERREG III-B, Operational Programme for Southwestern Europe

Duration:

2002-2005

Objectives:

To develop a balanced methodology aiming at identifying the built urban boundaries in the case study-cities of Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand, Lisbon e Oporto - using segmentation and object-oriented classification of SPOT 5 images;
To identify the social and economic contents of the above mentioned urban boundaries and to analyse the dysfunctions linked to the lack of adaptation of the management boundaries to the "actual” limits of the built space;
To recognise to what extent spatial planning policies are adapted to the diffusion processes of peripheral urbanisation.