Notes towards a study of town planning in Madrid during the Second Republic

Authors

  • Aurora Fernández Polanco

Abstract

The terms «vanguard» and «Republic», so the paper holds. have been too readily thought of as being synonymous. Were they to be really so, it would he necessary to determine to what degree they were so and, given the period, to ever keep in mind the all too prevalent ties between local party politics and city planning, initiatives in this field being notoriusly tainted by political opportunism. This is not to say that planning as such was conditioned by nothing but political considerations but rather that a good part of its being put into effect and the «New City» that was to result from this last alas were. All this is clearly high-lighted by the changes that the Second Republic underwent and their stages. A two-fold study is here called for, one part of this would undertake to examine the «image » of the city as an ever changing political metaphor while the other would underscore those changes in political course that the 1931-1939 period imposed.

Published

1990-03-19

How to Cite

Fernández Polanco, A. (1990). Notes towards a study of town planning in Madrid during the Second Republic. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (83), 87–96. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/83654