The geometric plans of cities in Catalonia (1846-1859) Authors Francesc Nadal i Piqué Universitat de Barcelona Roger Cros i Lluch Keywords: history of urban cartography, urban geography, history of urban planning, Catalonia. Abstract On July 25, 1846, a royal order was approved establishing that municipalities with large population centers had to make a geometric plane at 1: 1 250 scale. It should include also a general plan of street and places alignments. This liberal normative, which was an adaptation of the Napoleonic Law of alignment plans of 1807, gave rise to the first general urban documents of the nineteenth century and to an interesting urban cartography. This article explains the cartographic impact in Catalonia of this norm, which was in effect until the end of 1859. It has been possible to locate and catalog 14 geometric plans of cities, of which only four met all the requirements stipulated on the royal order. Despite this, its realization constitutes a relevant chapter in the history of contemporary urban cartography of Catalonia.Key words: history of urban cartography, urban geography, history of urban planning,Catalonia. Author Biography Francesc Nadal i Piqué, Universitat de Barcelona Downloads PDF (Català) How to Cite Nadal i Piqué, F., & Cros i Lluch, R. (2020). The geometric plans of cities in Catalonia (1846-1859). Treballs De La Societat Catalana De Geografia, (88), 39–72. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/TSCG/article/view/146713 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 88: desembre 2019 Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Catalan Society of Geography (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia.Authors answer to Catalan Society of Geography for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Catalan Society of Geography declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
