This article is included in Joan Busquets and Felipe Correa’s Catalunya Continental: Rail Infrastructure as the Backbone for Development.

Author
María Arquero de Alarcón, Sol Camacho
Publication Date
2007

This is the case of adequate assessment of the impact of large infrastructures on the landscape and particularly their effect on activities and the existing geography. We also have to understand, however, that in some situations networks and systems may produce a different definition to infrastructures, which are often excessively organized according to their hierarchical structure or internal logic, more typical of a top-down decision-making system.

We can therefore create paradigm models for the use and organization of a landscape whose backbone is formed by infrastructure which, in their capacity to enhance the territory, prove the advisability in social terms of implementing these infrastructures.

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