Infraestructuras y desarrollo en territorios periféricos. La Autovía del 92 y Andalucía Oriental

Abstract

The public commitment to improve and expand infrastructural resources has been constant in Spain over the last decades. Having become a strategic priority in the territories that are marked by their peripheral isolation, it was seen as the key to overcoming many of the secular territorial problems that prevented the development of large areas of the country. In Andalusia this process was taken on from two perspectives. On the one hand, it was necessary to connect the newly created autonomous community with the rest of the Iberian Peninsula and its major development hubs to overcome the historical isolation that identified this territory. On the other hand, it was necessary to articulate (connect) the newly created political‐administrative region in order to improve its internal functionality and cohesion. This paper analyzes the importance of Highway 92 in the design of the territorial model of the autonomous community of Andalusia, in relation specifically to the challenges found this process in its eastern corridor. We will address the expectations that the plan generated from its beginnings, as well as the territorial transformations and impacts that finally occurred after its implementation process, in a territorial, critical and holistic evaluation that reaches the present day (1992‐2017).