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One of the three key spatial development objectives contained within the European Spatial Development Perspective (CEE, 1999) seeks the ëdevelopment of a polycentric and balanced urban system and strengthening of the partnership between urban and rural areasí (p.19) in order to achieve...

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The use of spatial interaction models based on gravity criteria have been widely applied in the study of urban processes. Although the original perception about the similarity between the social phenomena and physics was first suggested by Carey in the middle of the 19th Century, the formal...

The present paper has as goal the analysis of the urban sprawl phenomenon, from a planetary scale, assuming the hypothesis that this is an unsustainable process. It aims to demonstrate that what were initially a way of human settlement characteristic of many civilizations (northern and eastern...