COSTLY TRANSPORT AND URBAN GROWTH: BARCELONA AND ITS TRAMWAYS, 1872-1914

Authors

  • José Luis Oyón

Abstract

The paper examines the relationship as between transport and city growth in Barcelona in the period before which public transport became democratically public. Once having established the relative importance of the various modes of intercity transport from the mid-19th Century onwards, the paper settles down to an examination of the tram as the most binding of the city's transport possibilities. To do so, a methodology in which traffic returns and their being broken down as to social class and urban settlement is suggested. For that period when such a means of transport was costly-the period up to the First World War at the least- tram travel shows itself to have been of importance in a quite specific area of the city, the North-west, this being an area of upper class housing, the homeground of the wealthy. The tramways are thus seen as having played their part in the re-inforcing of class differences alreday to be then found in the urban groundplan and of helping to make second-residence suburban areas into the permanent dwelling places of the well-to-do.

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Published

1992-12-23

How to Cite

Oyón, J. L. (1992). COSTLY TRANSPORT AND URBAN GROWTH: BARCELONA AND ITS TRAMWAYS, 1872-1914. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, (94), 107–123. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/83828

Issue

Ciudad y Territorio. Ciencia Urbana. Núm. 94 (1992)

Section

Articulos

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Copyright (c) 1992 José Luis Oyón

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