STUDY AREAS: ALMERIA CAMPO DE DALIAS-CAMPOS DE NÍJAR | ALMERIA
Agrocity: The agricultural structure that extends all along the A-7 from Adra to Níjar can be distinguished from space. One of the most exuberant and spectacular forms of city development has sprung up in recent decades, associated with the rise of a landscape historically at odds with development. Next to the shanty towns that house the cheap agricultural labor force, a mantle of housing estates and golf courses begins to spread in an ever more stormy coexistence with natural parks and nature reserves. This is a coastline that has been progressively strained by mass tourism, the plastic horizon of which breaks on the El Ejido construction plans for the highest skyscraper in the south of the Iberian Peninsula