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Fig. 8.7.28 Analysis of the environmental network and its relationship with urban settlements.
When the environmental network, from its structural elements (vegetation formations in the river
network, forest stands, and linear elements of the agrarian landscape), penetrates with thinning
branches into the urban sprawl, it intersects a succession of different, repeated, and fragmented
uses: agricultural, industrial, residential, infrastructure, etc.