Utopian City Planning in Spain

La ciudad del porvenir. Carpeta. Planos de estudio [Anteproyecto de ciudad parque]

[Arranz Valle, Crescencio]

Publication: Madrid: Artes e Industrias Gráficas, [1931?]. First Edition.

Notes: An unofficial and idiosyncratic urban planning proposal for a City Beautiful-style development for the outskirts of southeastern Madrid, illustrated with architectural drawings and blueprint plans for infrastructure.

The author describes his Ciudad Parque (Park City) as "the most beautiful and hygienic that can be built, since it meets those essential conditions of urbanization and healthiness with which a modern city must be endowed. In it, all social classes will be able to enjoy the necessary hygiene to which we are all entitled." (In the original: "...la más bella e higiénica que se puede construir, pues reúne aquellas condiciones esenciales de urbanización y salubridad de que debe estar dotada una ciudad moderna. En ella podrán gozar todas las clases sociales de la higiene necesaria a que todos tenemos derecho.")

Arranz Valle appears to have been an engineer by profession. What the response was to this plan could not be determined by your cataloguer, but he was condemned to death by one of Francisco Franco's military tribunals and executed by firing squad in July 1939.

9-1/2 by 13-1/4 inches. [i–ii] [1–2] 3-18, plus three inserted leaves (a color plate and two with mounted photostat illustrations) and 12 folding blue-line reproductions (large).

OCLC appears to locate one copy, dated 1931, at the Biblioteca Nacional de España (ID 431287947).

Edition + Condition: First edition. A very good copy, with some loss to the spine. Arranz signed the book at least eight times, including on the mounted photostat illustration on the front cover.

Item No: #363900

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