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Data such as that 49% of the plots in the area west of the Huerta de Murcia is occupied by dwellings or agricultural tissue colonization is not chaotic but responds to employers for temporary periods and locations, are among the first conclusions of research on the transformation of land use in the orchard, teachers performing the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT).

The study was presented in Montevideo.

According to the research "Transformation of land uses in the Huerta de Murcia: stages, causes and patterns," Ros performing and Ferdinand Marcos Miguel Garcia of the School of Architecture and Building Engineering UPCT the rapid transformation of this soil, agricultural initially, a suburban area has occurred since the 70s of XX century.

In this transformation have influenced three phenomena: the orderly growth of the city of Murcia, the growth of population centers in the agricultural landscape and scattered isolated dwellings that make this area a difficult area urban or agricultural qualification.

According to the study, the times when most homes have been built in the orchard were the periods 1956-1981 and 1981-2002.

The analysis show peaks construction, according to investigators, a slowdown in the scattering process, coinciding with the adoption in 1979 and 2001 of the General Urban Plan, to limit and manage the growth in the orchard, which gives Samples of the incidence thereof on the behavior of the zone.

The territory of the Huerta de Murcia has a whole 18,500 acres, of which 7,500 are urban land use.

The preliminary study was carried out on a fragment of West Orchard, the oldest, of 785 acres and only in the plots considered rustic by the Cadastre.

Now need to expand it in the Huerta de Murcia and assess the adequacy of the results to the problems arising from this type of area rurubanos, ie traditional use agricultural land on which diffusely proliferated urban uses.

Also pending analyze agricultural landscape conservation, maintenance of the orchard profitability, high costs for urban services, automobile dependency for mobility, explains Mark Ros, director of research.

La Huerta de Murcia is a floodplain of the River Segura in which the irrigation system created in the eleventh century allowed the development of a highly productive agricultural system that has remained until the twentieth century.

The research is part of the research project "Migration contemporary residential subdivision," funded by the Seneca Foundation for the period 2010-2014, which has nine UPCT researchers and University of Castilla-La Mancha.

The presentation took place in the framework of the "Research Visit" that Professor Ros being done in the Faculty of Architecture of the UDELAR to establish a comparative analysis with similar phenomena in the metropolitan area of ​​Montevideo, funded within the Mobility Program PDI (PMPDI-2013) UPCT.

Source: UPCT