Open AccessA model od Spanish-Portuguese urban growth: the Atlantic axis
Author(s) -
Lois-González Rubén C.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
dela - oddelek za geografijo filozofske fakultete v ljubljani
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1854-1089
pISSN - 0354-0596
DOI - 10.4312/dela.21.281-294
Subject(s) - portuguese , consolidation (business) , geography , peninsula , economic geography , cartography , archaeology , business , philosophy , linguistics , accounting
The Portuguese and the Spanish urban systems have developed with their backs to each other as the result of the different historical development of the two nation-states of the Iberian Peninsula. Since 1986, the date of Spain and Portugal’s integration into the European Com-munity, both countries have witnessed the blurring of their common border and the subse-quent appearance and consolidation of several Spanish-Portuguese axes of urban develop-ment. The most important of them all: the Atlantic Axis (A Coruña-Vigo-Porto) will be the subject matter of this paper.