La fabrique politique et territoriale du Grand Madrid (1900-1939)

During the first decades of the 20th century, Madrid underwent crucial socio-economic and spatial transformations which reinforced its metropolitan role. These new dynamics coexisted and came into friction with the symbolic and political functions of the national capital. This paper aims to examine the double and sometimes conflictual role of Madrid as a historical capital and an emergent metropolis. The first section focuses on the study of these urban transformations in order to better comprehend the simultaneous process of metropolitan formation and of capital assertion. The second section deals with the spatial and political projects for Madrid of Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939). Furthermore, the diffusion at the national level of the notion of Greater Madrid, which had only been employed till the 1930s by local actors, will be discusses