El Madrid moderno, capital de una España urbana en transformación, 1860-1931
ISSN: 1130-2402
Year of publication: 2009
Issue Title: Nuevas perspectivas sobre la ciudad contemporánea
Issue: 39
Pages: 541-588
Type: Article
More publications in: Historia contemporánea
Abstract
The intense urbanization process that radically changed life in Europe and America since the beginning of the XIXth Century was caused by different social processes of change, from demographic growth produced by immigration to the economic transformation due to the industrial development and its consequences and including new ways of thinking and living the urban experience. Also, the urban development produced a lot of different consequences in social performance which could be observed in all dimensions of life in the city: changes in urban planning, demographic behavior, the life and work conditions of labor force, social structure of population, relationship between elites and popular classes� Because of its demographic dimensions and its nature as Spanish Capital Town, Madrid offers a case study that perfectly illustrates the complexity and diversity of the causes and consequences of the urban development in modern times.