TY - JOUR AU - Adagio, Carmelo PY - 2002/12/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Democrazia municipale e politiche urbanistiche in Spagna, 1975-1985 JF - Spagna contemporanea. Rivista semestrale di storia, cultura, istituzioni JA - Spagna contemporanea VL - IS - 22 SE - DO - UR - https://www.spagnacontemporanea.it/index.php/spacon/article/view/526 SP - 103-124 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><em>Democrazia municipale e politiche urbanistiche in Spagna, 1975-1985</em></p><p>The essay, after having traced Spain’s urban system evolution during Francoism and the changes in the town-planning thought, studies how the democratic town-authorities met with the problems of urban decay inherited from the dictatorship period.&nbsp;Employing the rich contemporary debate on urban problems, that involved town-planners, architects, politicians and district associations, and reconstructing the origin of the town plans given to many Spanish towns in the beginning of the Eighties, the Author sketches the features of a town-planning of the transition seen as democratic re-possessing of the town-planning tools and as citizens’ sharing to the political decision’s formulation, emphasizing the municipal sphere’s centrality in Spain’s newly found democracy. &nbsp;The article especially deals on Madrid and Barcelona and points out how, not- withstanding some conceptual differences (prevailing of the town-plan tool in Madrid, prevailing of the single architectural project in Barcelona) the context of economic crisis gave to this first phase of Spanish democratic town-planning a marked austerity accent, of recovery and reconstruction of decayed urban tissues. &nbsp;Deferring conclusions to a still in progress research, the text closes stressing how in the mid-Eighties a different economic and political situation radically altered Spanish democratic town-planning’s characters.</p></div></div></div></div> ER -