Evolution of urban hierarchy in the Region of Murcia thirty years after the adoption of the statute of autonomy (1982–2014)

Abstract

The Spanish state land which regulates the Spanish Constitution of 1978, in 1982 allowed the province of Murcia from becoming a province autonomous region. Thirty years have passed and the state has left autonomic effects on the configuration and network hierarchy of cities that make up this space. This article will show how from the theoretical basis of the rank-size rule and studies of central places and areas of influence of the urban space Murcia Region has undergone major changes and changes to structure the space far have more balance, in fact the preponderance of the regional capital supplied population weight functional and has generated a virtual urban macrocephaly be very difficult to correct in the coming decades.