Ordenación y planificación regional del suelo industrial. Asturias y su entorno regional

Abstract

The importance of industrial land in the consolidation of productive explains the growing interest of government to regulate their management and planning. The treatment that this type of soil receives in the regional guidelines for spatial and territorial planning driven by the Autonomous Communities is of particular interest. Planner’s experience in northern Spain, particularly in Asturias, serves to illustrate thescope and significance of this phenomenon, its geographic significance and its implications for territorial development, since industrial location reinforces the urbanization processes and favours dynamism of the metropolitan areas, the urban peripheries and some rural areas, while operators are becoming more demanding with the quality of industrial settlements, which favours better equipped and less speculative promotions.