The Imaginative Institution: Planning and Governance in Madrid

255 Pages·2010·3.658 MB·English

by  Michael Neuman

The Imaginative Institution:
Planning and Governance in Madrid
Michael Neuman
THE IMAGINATIVE INSTITUTION:
PLANNING AND GOVERNANCE IN MADRID
To my parents and Elisabeth
The Imaginative Institution:
Planning and Governance
in Madrid
MICHAEL NEUMAN
Texas A&M University, USA
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Neuman, Michael, 1955-
The imaginative institution : planning and governance in
Madrid.
1.City planning--Spain--Madrid--History.
2.Metropolitan government--Spain--Madrid--History.
I. Title
307.1'216'094641-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neuman, Michael, 1955-
The imaginative institution : planning and governance in Madrid / by Michael Neuman.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0541-2 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4094-1944-0 (ebook)
1. Regional planning--Spain--Madrid (Region) 2. Madrid (Spain : Region)--Politics and
government. I. Title.
HT395.S72M2765 2010
307.1'216094641--dc22
2010016346
ISBN 978-1-409-40541-2 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-315-55683-3 (ebk)
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
1 Taming the Metropolitan Medusa 1
2 Institutional Evolution and Cognition: An Overview 21
3 Planning Institutions and Images: A Brief Review 41
4 Planning, Images, and Madrid’s New Regional Government 57
5 The Evolution of Madrid’s Modern Planning Institution 93
6 Urban Planning and Images 119
7 Continuity and Change: The Dialectic of Institutional Evolution 141
8 Prolegomena to a Theory of Institutional Evolution 159
Appendices 181
References 195
Index 233
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List of Figures
3.1 Conceptual relationship among objects of analysis in city planning 47
4.1 Metropolitan view of the Gran Sur  76
4.2 The central area of the Gran Sur      77
4.3 Design image of the Gran Sur      78
4.4 Conceptual sketch of the Gran Sur      79
8.1 Logo of the 1993 Draft General Plan for the City of Madrid 170
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List of Tables
1.1 Relation between independent and dependent variables 8
1.2 Intervening variable dimensions 9
4.1 Precedents for planning figures in the 1995 Regional Planning Law 66
4.2 Population growth in the Gran Sur 1970–1991 75
6.1 Structure of the Spanish National Planning System 129
6.2 Structure of the Madrid Metropolitan Planning Institution 132
6.3 Plan content continuity 1860–1994 137
8.1 Institutional transformation in Madrid’s city and metropolitan
planning 163
8.2 Typology of institutional transformation 167