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Blanca del Espino Hidalgo 
El territorio andaluz se caracteriza, entre otros aspectos, por poseer un denso entramado de ciudades que desempeñan un papel de intermediación. Esta categoría ha sido revelada en los últimos años como una línea creciente en el campo de la investigación urbana, así como una oportunidad en el devenir sostenible de las estrategias territoriales. Se trata aquí de realizar un enfoque sobre las ciudades medias del interior de Andalucía abordando una definición completa de este caso de estudio para, a continuación, comprobar cuáles son las principales cualidades del sistema urbano propuesto y elaborar un breve diagnóstico sobre sus potencialidades futuras.
The Andalusian territory is defined, among other features, by a dense network of cities that play an intermediate role: they are not capitals, but they act like if they were so in relation to a generally small area. This urban category has been recently revealed as an increasing line in the research field, as well as an opportunity to a more sustainable future of territorial strategies. This research aims to take a close approach over Mid-Sized Cities in the inner areas of Andalusia, as well as addressing a comprehensive and accurate definition of this case study, establishing the main features of this urban system and finishing with a brief diagnosis concerning the potentials and probable future sceneries from a sustainable perspective. Accordingly, it seeks to establish a wide, transversal analysis of the territorial and urban phenomenon which has conformed, for centuries, a set of small and mid-sized cities which represents, nowadays, the sixty percent of the land structure in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, still growing in terms of urban land and population. For this purpose, a particular study case has been selected: the cities in the centre of Andalusia (Spain).
