Activos entrópicos. Procesos de ocupación habitacional en el Campo de Dalías (Almería) en la segunda mitad del siglo XX

This paper argues that speculative forces on land ownership, guided by the same logic of the intensive agricultural market, have come to shape the habitation spaces and to perpetuate spatial segregation, not under the application of a state directive but in the face of strict economic criteria that take advantage of existing differentiated spatial structures and reinforce them with appropriate capital fiows. It contextualizes the territorial implantation of the colonization villages in Campo de Dalías and questions their historical capacity to attach the population to the territory, during the period of the greatest infiux of immigration attracted by a fiourishing agricultural industry under plastic. It shows the existence of a segregated urbanization agenda led by the Franco regime, which came to differentiate between colonization villages and tourist developments on the coast from the mid- 1960s onwards, and it also widens the focus of attention on other contemporary habitation modes such as the massive dissemination of informal housing among greenhouses, without any planning during the agricultural colonization, and its effects on housing up to the present day. It is concluded that to try to ensure the long- term survival of this agro-industrial system in the west of Almeria, the relationship between the productive environment and the housing environment must be addressed in synthesis, here intertwined in the same territorial space, overcoming the simple relationship of opposites and assuming their interdependent nature in a difficult imbalance that is still unresolved today.