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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2015
    France, Italy, Germany, Spain

    The construction industry, particularly the public sector, started drawing attention towards containing costs and increasing performance. This is why several public entities worldwide are promoting new strategies and adopted innovating approaches such as the Building Information Modelling (BIM). Countries like the UK, Germany, France and Spain are working on it through investments in the industry digitalization.

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    October, 2015
    Spain

    This paper tracks the evolution of the area covered by the dehesa in Sierra Morena from the mid 20th
    century to the present day, in an attempt to identify those areas in which traditional land uses still hold
    sway and others in which new land uses are appearing in relation to emerging business activities. These
    new uses have brought about an important transformation in the landscape of the dehesa, which in some
    areas is being replaced by other more profitable forms of land use, in particular with olive groves. In

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2016
    Spain

    Urbanization in Spain has advanced rapidly in the last twenty years or so. The phenomenon was particularly pronounced in the period spanning 1990-2007, when the construction of housing on a mass scale was a clear indicator of the second circuit of capital accumulation, with space playing a key role through the work of David Harvey. This led to a property bubble – one of the defining features of the economic and financial crisis in Spain between 2008 and 2013.

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2008
    Chile, Germany, Spain

    Cities are not socially homogenous, but divided into socially and structurally differentiated sub-units. Likewise, the individuals of a community, city or neighbourhood present specific behavioural patterns and uses with respect to their public green areas. This premise has led us to explore the question of how the perceptions, uses, and behaviours of people from different countries, cultures, and socioeconomic levels in Chile, Germany and Spain differ or coincide as far as urban nature and landscapes are concerned.

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