Lecciones de la Historia

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The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change...

711-712: conquista islámica de Hispania.1212: batalla de Las Navas de Tolosa.1412: Compromiso de Caspe.1512: incorporación de Navarra a Castilla.Los centenarios de aquellos sucesos confluyen en 2012. Es cierto que las conmemoraciones de centenarios tienen mucho de coyuntural, pero también lo es que pueden ser ocasión para mostrar al público algunos aspectos de la historia que, de otra manera, no llamarían su atención.

La quiebra de la ciudad popular intenta explicar por qué el mundo obrero y popular de Barcelona, capital indiscutible del sindicalismo revolucionario anarquista, mantuvo unas expectativas insurreccionales hasta finalizar los años de entreguerras. El texto examina la experiencia cotidiana del obrero en el espacio urbano en cuatro grandes campos: segregación residencial, vivienda, movilidad y sociabilidad. Numerosos planos, gráficos explicativos e historias de vida ilustran esas experiencias cotidianas. El análisis socioespacial desarrollado abre nuevos caminos en la comprensión del mundo ...