Around Madrid: the continuing influence of historical urban development plans on today’s periphery
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2018-01-19Abstract
This paper describes the peripheral development that has occurred
in Madrid over the last 16 years (2000–2016), a period split by the
economic crash that occurred in 2008. The paper argues that the
relationship between economic development and infrastructure
corridors witnessed in this peripheral development is intrinsically
connected to the nineteenth and twentieth-century plans for urban
growth. While these corridors have some similarities to the Strip model
for an automobile city discussed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-
Brown in their seminal book Learning from Las Vegas, the Madrid
peripheries enjoy a long genealogy that complicates any easy link
to the Strip, particularly around issues of economic speculation,
typology and image-making or imagining, which will be introduced
using the work of Michael Neuman and others. The research design
adopted examines the treatment of the periphery in a number of
historical plans, particularly their attitudes towards infrastructure and
economic development, in order to establish connections between
those historical plans and the city’s planned and (partially) realized
peripheral development today.
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Citation : Martinez-Perez, A. and Walker, S. (2018) Around Madrid: the continuing influence of historical urban development plans on today’s periphery. Journal of Urban Design
Research Group : Architecture Research Group
Research Institute : Institute of Architecture
Peer Reviewed : Yes