Note on historical urban cartography in Spain
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Abstract
In most Spanish cities, urban planimetry was not generalised until the 19th and 20th centuries. The War of Independence, in which sieges and taking of cities were frequent, brought about numerous urban plans. The Atlas of Spain and its Overseas Posessions, by Francisco Coello, published between 1845 and 1870 at the some time as the Geographical Dictionary of Pascual Madoz, comprises 223 plans of cities and towns, a very accurate homogeneous collection not yet surpased in relative terms.
The Royal Decree of 1846 which obliged urban municipalities to draw up their population plans, development legislation and interior reform, and proliferation of urban «guides», all boosted, on the other hand, the drawing up and diffussion of urban cartography.
In general, cartography of small plots appeared much later. Except for big cities, plans of small plots were not available until well into the 20th century, as a result of the development of the Urban Land Census.
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