The Working Class and Its Relationship with the Territory in Spain during the Franco Regime. Analysis of Three Contemporary Organization Models

Abstract

The need to organize the working class in mid-twentieth century Spain would lead to an intense period of architectural and urban research in all those contexts in which the phenomenon would take place: on the periphery of the industrial city, in the rural environment and in the less studied shoreline. To publicize the Í€œciudades de vacacionesÍ€ (holiday cities) promoted by the Spanish union organization Í€œEducación y DescansoÍ€ as an organized system for workers rest, a comparative analysis is conducted with two other contemporary models, both Í€œpoblados dirigidosÍ€ and Í€œpueblos de colonización,Í€ which despite their different approaches would address a similar problem. For this, a series of quantitative parameters of density and land uses common to the three models have been studied. As conclusions, the text reveals the particularities of an organizational model with formal characteristics that will be definitively influenced by its specific destination.