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The last of three great nights
If you ever come to Spain around these days, this is how serious things are done here: The night from 24th to 25th December: a family dinner and a Christmas meal. Usually no party out of home, but...
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Maps 2015 (2) The blackout of the bubble
As I have already said some years ago, the central issue for the blog this year will be the grain of the city; i.e., how the detail that you see on the urban space is formed by aggregation of...
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Starters of urban change (2) Taxes and the « casas a la malicia » in...
A plate of the 1749 map of Madrid Madrid becomes the Spanish capital in 1561, and this implies the institution of the the “regalia de aposento”, making mandatory for citizens to provide half their own...
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Maps 2015 (5) Up & down in Granada
The results of a little escapade on the side of the cadastral data for volumes. If it is built, it must be drawn to ask for taxes… and those bases can be used. Here, around the Granada cathedral, that...
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Starters of urban change (9) Municipalities
Municipalities can be a powerful starter of urban change… or of inertia, depending on their ability to create positive dynamics on their territory. This is related to their accounts, and that is...
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Maps 2015 (10) Inequality of personal revenue in Spain
Fedea (Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada) is an economic think tank financed by a large set of big Spanish firms. In November 2014 it published “Personal revenue in Spanish municipalities and...
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Blocks (2) Façades
A façade on the Calle de Alcalá, Madrid When you think about façades you think about buildings (one by one, taken as separate items) ; if you think in terms about bocks, the building façade is in a...
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Blocks (4) El Viso
El Viso as seen from the south, according to cadastral data El Viso is a residential area built in Madrid in 1933-1936 according to the 1925 Low Coast Housing Act. It never really was a worker’s...
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Blocks (5)- Maps 2015 (16) Barcelona as seen by the tax man
French geographer Yves Lacoste used to say that geography is since its inception a war tool. It’s not my aim to contradict him, but in fact urban cartography is since its inception a tool to levy...
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Blocks (6) 22@ at Barcelona
MediaTIC September 2000 marked the enactment of a variance to Barcelona’s Plan General Metropolitano aimed at renovating the industrial areas in Poblenou, also known as 22@BCN Activity District. The...
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