The fluid city: eco-urbanism and standardization of the hydraulic building. A case study in Mediterranean Spain at the end of the 19th century.
The Fluid City: Eco-Urbanism and Normalization of the Hydraulic Building. A Case Study in the Mediterranean Spain at the End of the 19th Century
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvi.15.2022.34093Keywords:
Space production; Urban planning; Agriculture; Ecology; HydrographyAbstract
From the perspective of Henri Lefebvre’s «production of space», in the context of French historical materialism of the seventies, this article presents an approach to the relationship between urban space and the network of irrigation canals that make up the city of Elche, in southeastern Spain. The concept of «fluid city» in the Mediterranean ecosystem arises from the dialectic between production of urban space and appropriation of orography. During the 19th century, the municipal power and the agrarian oligarchies of the city directed a process of normalization of the appropriation of space through the normative control of the «hydraulic building» that makes up the irrigation waters of the territory. At the very beginning of the local industrial revolution, there is a renewal of the «fluid city» concept, since water acquires a new added value, that of an energy source.
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