An Efficient Model for Spatial Planning: Territories at the Heads of Axes

Abstract

Anisotropic spatial structures of development axes or corridors exert their influence upon the adjacent territory in a specific manner, through series of vectors that act in parallel or in transverse in rapport with their own development. Their planning will take into consideration the peculiarities of this action, in the sense of differentiating its catalyzing aspects that must be amplified and turned over an area as extended as possible. In this respect, the planning of territories at heads of axes has multiple functional valences, besides their own affirmation. They induce, directly or indirectly, active principles in the system, through the transit of raw materials, persons, goods and interests. They become genuine “bridgeheads” of the interconnection with the adjacent spatial systems, ramparts for increasing the territorial cohesion and diminishing the economic and social disparities by alleviating or removing the peripherisation phenomena.