Gonzalo Andrés López

Dr. Gonzalo Andrés López

History, Geography and Comunication, University of Burgos, Burgos, Castille-Leon, Spain
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27Years (2000-Present)

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15 July 2021 in Investigaciones Geográficas
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Carme Bellet
GLGonzalo Andrés López
Gonzalo Andrés López
En los últimos cuarenta años, en las ciudades se ha producido una acusada fase de crecimiento y expansión, culminada con el “boom” inmobiliario de la denominada “década prodigiosa” del urbanismo español (1997-2007). En este proceso, las áreas urbanas articuladas por ciudades medias han protagonizado los crecimientos relativos más notables del sistema urbano en España, muy por encima de lo que realmente representan en población, parque de viviendas y superficie urbanizada. Como consecuencia de ello, estas ciudades han modificado su estructura tradicionalmente compacta y relativamente densa, generándose nuevas formas definidas por la fragmentación y el intensivo consumo de suelo en las periferias. Se ha consolidado así un modelo de ciudad diseñado por un planeamiento urbanístico convertido en instrumento para proyectar en el territorio las dinámicas del crecimiento económico. Desde el año 2008 se ha abierto un claro proceso de ralentización de esta expansión, lo que invita a considerar un cambio de ciclo y, en consecuencia, la generación de un nuevo modelo de ciudad más racional y sostenible. Sin embargo, el análisis del planeamiento general vigente en estas ciudades obliga a reconsiderar esta hipótesis, ya que las expectativas de crecimiento continúan siendo muy elevadas y el modelo urbano sigue centrado en la extensión y la propuesta de grandes sectores de nuevo suelo urbanizable.
10 May 2021 in Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
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DCDavid Checa
David Checa
The industry has a relevant spatial and socioeconomic importance in most of the Spanish cities and nowadays is one of the main urban economic activities. However, in many situations, and despite recent advances in the past two decades, industrial heritage is a value that is still not sufficiently widespread in society. The factories, their activity, and their historical evolution are often disconnected and isolated from the daily life of the cities, being quite an unknown aspect for most of the citizens. This contribution presents the result of various experiences of knowledge transmission on the heritage value of industry, through the use of games and storytelling technique as an educational tool and the combination of different technologies (3D modelling, videomapping, virtual reality) as useful tools to spread the explanation of this phenomenon.
23 May 2023 in Land
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FCFrancisco Cebrián-Abellán
Francisco Cebrián-Abellán
GLGonzalo Andrés López
Gonzalo Andrés López
CBCarme Bellet
Carme Bellet
In recent decades, particularly intense changes have occurred in Spanish urban areas. This is the result of demographic and urbanizing transformations that have led to a change in the city model. The predominance of compact forms has been replaced by the growing prominence of urban sprawl. Structures are now more extensive, characterized, in turn, by fragmentation and the notable consumption of land in the peripheries. In medium-sized cities, the municipalities bordering the central cities have concentrated the processes of suburbanization and periurbanization. This paper addresses the processes of change for 34 cities and their urban areas located in inland Spain. A proposal is made for the delimitation and characterization of urban areas, taking the municipality as the unit of analysis. At the methodological level, six variables are used, analyzed by means of multicriteria statistical techniques combined with the use of GIS tools. An Urban Transformation Index (ITU) has been developed that synthesizes urbanizing, demographic and socioeconomic dynamics (six variables related to population, housing and socio-productive structure are used). In the territorial area, the 20-min isochrone is used as a reference. In the temporal domain, the period of analysis addresses the events of the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
10 June 2021 in Journal of Visualized Experiments
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MARIA CONSUELO SAIZ MANZANARESMARIA CONSUELO SAIZ MANZANARES
MARIA CONSUELO SAIZ MANZANARES
RHRené Jesús Payo Hernanz
René Jesús Payo Hernanz
MYMaría José Zaparaín Yáñez
María José Zaparaín Yáñez
GLGonzalo Andrés López
Gonzalo Andrés López
RSRaúl Marticorena Sánchez
Raúl Marticorena Sánchez
SASandra Rodríguez Arribas
Sandra Rodríguez Arribas
Behavioral analysis of adults engaged in learning tasks is a major challenge in the field of adult education. Nowadays, in a world of continuous technological changes and scientific advances, there is a need for life-long learning and education within both formal and non-formal educational environments. In response to this challenge, the use of eye-tracking technology and data-mining techniques, respectively, for supervised (mainly prediction) and unsupervised (specifically cluster analysis) learning, provide methods for the detection of forms of learning among users and/or the classification of their learning styles. In this study, a protocol is proposed for the study of learning styles among adults with and without previous knowledge at different ages (18 to 69-year-old) and at different points throughout the learning process (start and end). Statistical analysis-of-variance techniques mean that differences may be detected between the participants by type of learner and previous knowledge of the task. Likewise, the use of unsupervised learning clustering techniques throws light on similar forms of learning among the participants across different groups. All these data will facilitate personalized proposals from the teacher for the presentation of each task at different points in the chain of information processing. It will likewise be easier for the teacher to adapt teaching materials to the learning needs of each student or group of students with similar characteristics.
23 June 2023 in Land
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Gonzalo Andrés López
Over the last few decades, within the framework of remarkable urban expansion accompanying a real-estate boom in Spain, it has been medium-sized cities that have registered the most drastic changes in morphology. Currently, about 50% of urbanised land was developed after 1980. Historically compact and dense urban structures have been transformed, with new urbanised spaces expanding into the outskirts. High land consumption has created sprawling, fragmented and scattered urban areas. These are new, more complex and multifunctional urban structures, and there has been a change in the scale of urbanisation, in the forms and in the resulting urban landscape. However, the growth model which has caused these transformations is defined by hardly sustainable land-use patterns. The number of medium-sized cities has increased by around 50%, while the number of houses built has grown by 109% and developed land by 87% between 1981 and 2021. This paper analyses these recent dynamics through the statistical treatment of growth patterns and their cartographic analysis using GIS technology. The significant modification of urban forms at this scale in the Spanish urban system is confirmed. The paper also reflects on the lack of sustainability in the prevailing model with respect to the 2030 city strategy.
20 February 2020 in Cuadernos Geográficos
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Gonzalo Andrés López
Tradicionalmente se ha vinculado a las ciudades medias con sus funciones administrativas y de servicios, ligadas esencialmente a su papel como capitales provinciales. Del mismo modo, se ha extendido también la asociación de identificar una ciudad media con la existencia de industrias agroalimentarias relacionadas con procesos de transformación básicos ligados a sus entornos rurales. En pocas ocasiones se ha utilizado la etiqueta de ciudad industrial para referirse a un espacio urbano de tamaño medio. Sin embargo, si observamos algunos de los principales indicadores sociales, económicos y espaciales de la actividad productiva en España, las ciudades medias tienen un significado relevante y aparecen una serie de áreas urbanas en las que la industria presenta una gran trascendencia y repercusión. Este trabajo plantea un acercamiento a esta realidad territorial, desarrollando una caracterización geográfica de la industria en las ciudades medias a partir del estudio de diferentes variables relacionadas con las empresas, el empleo, la población activa y la superficie dedicada a actividades económicas. El trabajo estudia las 48 áreas urbanas intermedias existentes en España, las ordena y clasifica y establece tipologías para clarificar el concepto de la ciudad media industrial.