Zuazo's plan for the town of Las Palmas

Authors

  • Joaquín Casariego Ramírez

Abstract

This paper seeks to establish a historical relation between Secundino Zuazo's 1944 Plan for the town of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and the actual transformations that took place in this town during the period 1940-1960. The thesis advanced is that the said plan, by adhering to the most radical currents within the Modern Movement, puts forward an excesively rigid, and absolutely finished model for the city, with total faith in the control of urban growth through very formalized models. The economic and political situation, worsened by the secular isolation of the islands, did, nevertheless, set-off peripheral growth phenomena that have little to do with Zuazo's project, and growth phenomena which produced in practice a new city shaped by the aggregation of housing estates marginal to the extant city.

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Published

1988-09-29

How to Cite

Casariego Ramírez, J. (1988). Zuazo’s plan for the town of Las Palmas. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (77), 41–49. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/82721

Issue

Ciudad y Territorio. Ciencia Urbana. Núm. 77 (1988)

Section

Articulos

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Copyright (c) 1988 Joaquín Casariego Ramírez

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