Building a rural/urban typology for Spanish municipalities
This article aims to establish criteria for rigorously define what constitutes a rural or urban area, given the limitations of traditional methodologies. Secondly, a rural / urban typology is proposed at the municipal level for Spain taking into account three criteria: demographics - combining densities with minimum population thresholds — information on land use and the degree of accessibility from the rural world to cities. This results in establishing the existence of six different types of municipalities.
Keywords: Rural/urban typology; population grid; land cover, rural accessibility
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