Ciudades medias españolas siglo XXI. Revisión y análisis bibliométrico de enfoques y temáticas predominantes

Abstract

Debate referring Spanish medium sized cities from those sciences related to the study of the territory, within an European and world context, have increased in complexity and diversity throughout the XXIst century. Matters such as size, rank or classification have given up their leadership in favour of quality of life, economic survival or the boost of territorial competitiveness in a highly globalized world. The objective of this research is to identify and characterize the most influential and current approaches and topics regarding future development of those cities. By means of using bibliometric indicators it is determined its relative importance, which results interesting in the decision making process related to strategic regional and urgan planning and political agenda of those cities. In order to do that, a review of the most relevant investigations thereon in recent years has done. Prevailing approach is linked to development, in which outstand topics linked to participative and economic dimension of sustainability, such as scale, networking, economy, innovation or stakeholders.