Industrial dynamics, land concept and planning in the township of Lorca, Murcia (south-eastern Spain)

Lorca is a city of average size that, for his strategic location in the Mediterranean corridor, offers different opportunities of business. Traditionally the industrial activity has occupied a secondary place in the local economy in relation to other productive sectors that have monopolized the workforce and the generated wealth. In spite of it, there turns out to be very notable the impact that the industrial activities have in the urban space of Lorca, thinking types of location very diverse that they answer to managerial interests and to the planning and urban development practice carried out in the municipality. To industrial mature sectors in decadence, more modern others have joined in phase of expansion. Since in other occasions, the industry, at this moment of economic international crisis, does not also have aptitude in Lorca to absorb the excessive workforce of other sectors, which does not satisfy the imperious need to diversify and modernize with new alternatives the traditional economic local model.