03222nam a22004097a 4500 pucpr 20240130164234.0 210828t20212021gw abce b 001 0 eng d 9783869225050 paperback 386922505X paperback pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET HT169.S65 L43 2021 23 307.7620946 Lejeune, Jean-François, author. Rural utopia and water urbanism : the modern village in Franco's Spain. / Jean-François Lejeune. txt Modern village in Franco's Spain Berlin : DOM Publishers, 2021. 407 p. : ill. ; col. ; maps ; plans ; photo. ; 23 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdacontent still image sti rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc Basics 299565 133 Rural utopia and water urbanism Includes bibliographical references and index. Foreword -- Introduction: The Rural Paradigm of Modernity -- The Modern Village: Regenerationism and the Modernisation of Spain -- The Ordered Town: The Reconstruction of the Devastated Regions -- Reconstruction: An Atlas of New Villages -- Rural Poetics, New Nature, and Modernity: The Pueblos de Colonización, 1939-1971 -- Reinventing The Pueblo: Alejandro de la Sota's Surrealist Modernity -- Landscape, Abstraction, and Integration of the Arts: The Villages of José Luis Fernández del Amo -- Colonisation: An Atlas of New Villages -- Contemporary Pictures. -- Annex. -- Post-Civil War Spain used the countryside as locus and symbol for the reconstruction and modernisation of the state. The Modern Village in Franco's Spain studies the reconstruction of the towns devastated between 1936 and 1939. It analyses the ideological, political, and urbanistic principles of Franco's hydro-social programme of modernisation of the countryside through the creation of man-made landscapes (Kulturlandschaften) of dams, irrigation canals, electric power plants, and new settlements - a genuine experiment in water urbanism. The consequent strategy of interior colonisation entailed the construction of 300 new villages or pueblos, each designed as a 'rural utopia' centred on a plaza mayor, which embodied, between tradition and modernity, the political ideal of civil life under the national-catholic regime. In the 1950s - 1960s, a new generation of architects, including José Luis Fernández del Amo, Alejandro de la Sota, and Antonio Fernández Alba, reimagined the pueblos as platforms of urban and architectonic experimentation in their search for an abstracted rural vernacular and an organic urban form merging with the landscape."--From back cover. 1939-1975 fast City planning Spain History 20th century. Cities and towns Spain History 20th century. Villages Spain History. Villages. fast Spain History 1939-1975. Spain. fast History. fast lcc 27 HT169.S65 General L43 2021 301620 301620 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2023-05-30 DOM Publisher 29.53 0 General HT169.S65 L43 2021 91000000071555 2024-01-30 16:43:18 1 39.53 2023-05-30 27