History of urban cartography in Spain discovers the birth of models or patterns of urban cartography from the 16th century, describes their essential features and analyzes their influences. The book collects the papers presented at the symposium "Models of the Spanish urban cartography: a historical analysis" held in Barcelona for three days in early February 2017, organized by the Group for the Study of the History of Cartography University de Barcelona -GEHC- and the Museu d'Història de Barcelona. At the end of 2018 the work was published in .pdf format available for free download. The Colloquium starts from a premise, the result of the research carried out in recent years on the recovery of forgotten urban cartography: "the impossibility of distinguishing a single path of linear and cumulative progress in the historical development of European urban cartography" . As the organizers point out, what happens is quite the opposite, "the cartographic representation of cities has evolved following different models or specific traditions, each of which has a peculiar origin, its own language and defining technical and operational characteristics" . The study of urban cartography in Spain confirms this central idea, «in the case of Spanish cartography it is possible to distinguish, between the 16th and 19th centuries, four clearly differentiated traditions: city views , urban military topography , cadastral planimetry urban and urban cartography . The different types of urban maps formed in this long historical sequence are only fully understood by inscribing them in their own tradition. ' These models or patterns of urban cartography are the focus of the book, preceded by an introduction by the Italian historian Lucia Nuti, from the University of Pisa, on the birth of a new genre of representation: the portrait of the city. As Lluis Arteaga comments , in the presentation of "History of urban cartography in Spain" in January 2019 , each of the four commented planimetric traditions "consists of two types of works. In the first place, a general study that synthesizes the available information and tries to offer a balance of the research carried out. This general rehearsal is followed by three or four original monographic investigations focused on a city or a specific cartographic product. The fifth and final section, which contains only case studies, explores a subject not mentioned until now: printed commercial cartography. And he goes on to explain the enormous effort involved in publishing a book of this type “the work is the result of a collective effort; from the collaboration of a score of researchers. In the first place, from the members of the Study Group on the History of Cartography: an interuniversity team coordinated by the University of Barcelona, which has been the ideologist and promoter of the work, and of which half of the authors of the work are part. (exactly eleven). Also from a large group of scholars from different universities and various intellectual fields, who accepted the challenge of writing a history of the graphic representation of Spanish cities, which aspires to become a reference work on the subject.
...MoreReview Jacobo García-Álvarez (2020) Review of "Historia de la cartografía urbana en España: Modelos y realizaciones". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 212-213).
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