Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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What Is the History of Madrid?
During period, like you said, madrid was similar to a two other two other cities in, for example, britain or france. It underwent a nurbanization process. So on the one hand, we have this population growth that was the resulto of emigrations. Til we had migrants from different from different regions in spain,. mainly the northand and the south. And this changed the landscape in different ways. For example, there were shanty towns that grew on the fringes of the city. These were the workers who were coming to the city to find work. But at the same time, so we have that kind of spontaneous expansion but also of planned
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