Hugo Castro Noblejas

University of Granada | UGR · Geografía Humana

Based on Edward Soja's concept of spatial justice, the urban evolution of Marbella is analyzed, a municipality that has experienced rapid demographic and morphological growth due to a productive model centered on tourism and construction. Uncontrolled growth has exacerbated urban inequalities and tensions, raising questions about equity in access t...

This poster presents an introductory analysis of how lockers have become a visible symbol of touristification in downtown Málaga. Through maps, images and graphs, the poster explores different aspects of this phenomenon.

The assessment of vulnerability to the danger of flooding, with a focus on the need for rescue and assistance from the population, is still in an exploratory scientific phase. The main objective of this research is to propose a methodology based on the issues of rescue and assistance in the face of the risk of floods and to provide a tool for its m...

Housing prices are influenced by extrinsic and intrinsic factors. This study aims to highlight the economic impact of the perceived landscape on single-family houses prices in a Spanish Mediterranean urban area (Marbella). Considering the landscape an important added value in real estate markets, this study also explores the landscape elements that...

The landscape constitutes one of the components of greater territorial value in coastal urban areas such as the Mediterranean Costa del Sol Occidental of the province of Malaga (Spain), both due to its social and economic function. It has been one of the main factors in the urban growth linked to tourism, while its views remain a source of desire f...

Since the 1960s, the productive model of Málaga has been pointed toward tourism. The redevelopment of the historic centre of the city and the increasing specialization of some areas in services linked to tourism have created several negative consequences on the habitability and the identity of those areas. This work aims at developing a methodology...

Marbella is a city and municipality on the Mediterranean coast, with spatial tensions characteristic of places subject to touristification. One of the municipality's main features is its high ratio of foreigners, who live there for residential or employment purposes. For this study, a spatial analysis was made of socioeconomic and urban-planning va...

The physical environment and the different land uses determine a wide range of urban types and urban landscapes. Since the landscape is one of the main assets of urban areas, the aim of the present chapter is to identify and categorise urban types based on variables with influence in the landscape and its perception in a coastal Mediterranean area...

From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, several methods have been developed to assess the risk of COVID-19 transmission using spatial units of analysis based on administrative limits (e.g., neighborhoods, census sections, and districts). The main objective of this study is to create a method to assess the risk of contagion within an interurban...

The Spanish Mediterranean coastline has been one of the regions with the fastest urbanization process since the mid-20th century. This study analyzes the urban colonization of the first coastline in two municipalities of the Costa del Sol in southern Spain, Manilva and Marbella, from the mid-twentieth century to the present. For this purpose, pre-e...

The landscape is a factor considered when choosing to purchase a dwelling, and, therefore, it influences the price of the real estate market. However, it is difficult to measure and assess its role, since it has a series of features that work in an integrated way and are hard to quantify separately. The characteristics of the views from each dwelli...

El Centro Histórico de Málaga ha estado sufriendo una serie de profundas transformaciones arquitectónicas, funcionales y sociales en las últimas décadas. Estos procesos no han sido analizados aún de forma sistemática, pese a que el estudio de los procesos urbanos como el de la gentrificación es un tema de máxima actualidad. Este trabajo pretende de...

There are few studies that have developed estimations of the vulnerability of the population to isolation as a result of flood events. The main objective of this study was to provide a methodological proposal that addresses this matter through a series of cartographic instruments. To this purpose, the method was tested in a study area classified as...

The objectives of this paper are (a) to incorporate vegetation cover into quantitative techniques for identifying and classifying urban landscape types, (b) to implement a methodology to analyse the urban landscape units of three zones in the Mediterranean coastal area and (c) to design a methodology that could be extrapolated to other urban spaces...

The present research analyses the epidemiological bases, the methodology approach and the utility of the Geo-Covid Cartographic Platform to face COVID-19 transmission at an intra-urban scale. Geo-Covid is based on the study of the main drawbacks and limitations of the current risk maps, and the proposed hazard mapping methodology is presented as an...

Natural lighting is a fundamental element in the habitability of dwellings. However, it is still difficult to calculate its effect on the façades of the buildings in detail, due to the morphological complexity of the property itself, as well as the environment that surrounds it. This study provides a methodological proposal that uses pre-existing o...

A través de un ejercicio comparativo entre dos municipios próximos geográficamente, de características similares, se estudia la información obtenida en los buscadores y registros de opiniones de Trivago y Google Maps. Para realizar el cotejo se ha llevado a cabo un análisis cualitativo y paramétrico de los datos. Los resultados permiten identificar...

After the extraction of sulfide minerals such as galena, sphalerite and pyrite for decades, the abandoned minesites are a sort of mosaic of different substrates related with the different activities carried out in all kind of mineral management and processing. Accumulations of fine material (fine sand and silt) after the process of grinding the roc...