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Overview
\"The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid examines the transformation of Madrid from a secondary market town to the capital of the worldwide Spanish Habsburg empire. Focusing on the planning and building of Madrid's principal public monument, the Plaza Mayor, it is based on an analysis of archival documents, architectural drawings, and the surviving built fabric of the city itself. Jesus Escobar demonstrates how the shaping of the city square and its environs reflects the bureaucratic nature of government in Madrid, chosen in 1561 to serve as a capital of Spain. He also examines the careful planning of the city, with particular regard to the necessities of housing and public works that accompanied its new status as capital. The process reveals the sophistication of town planning in late-sixteenth-century Spain and forces a reconsideration of Spanish urbanism within the contexts of contemporary European and Spanish colonial developments.\"--Jacket.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Subject
Gâomez de Mora, Juan 1586-1648
/ City planning Spain Madrid History 16th century.
/ Architecture and state Spain.
/ Architecture Politique gouvernementale Espagne.
/ Pleinen.
/ Platz
/ Spain History Philip II, 1556-1598.
/ Plaza Mayor (Madrid, Espagne)
/ Espagne Histoire 1556-1598 (Philippe II)
/ Spain.
/ Madrid
/ Spanien
ISBN
052181507X, 9780521815079, 9780521111539, 0521111536
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| Call Number | Copies | Material | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| NA9072.M33 P563 2004 | 1 | BOOK | ARTS |
