Atlas Histórico del Urbanismo Español [reseña] = Historical Atlas of Spanish Urbanism [Review]

Resumen

Fernando de Terán (1934–) is one of the most senior urban planners and urban historians in Spain, well known in the Spanish-speaking world for his career in both academia and public administration. Now in his nineties and retired for over two decades, he became largely influential from the 1970s onwards, publishing works that often focused on Madrid where he held important positions. Along with authors like Antonio Bonet (1925–2020)1 and Carlos Sambricio (1945–), Terán contributed to the consolidation of urban history as a scholarly field, continuing the work of figures such as Leopoldo Torres Balbás (1888–1960), Pedro Bidagor (1906–1996), Fernando Chueca (1911–2004), and Manuel de Terán (1904–1984), his father.2 The prologue of Atlas Histórico del Urbanismo Español is dedicated to the latter, while the books’ own title mirrors that of the formers’ keystone volume, Resumen Histórico del Urbanismo en España (1954). Terán’s atlas updates the overarching and wide approach of its predecessor, supporting it with an abundance of visual material and extending its reach over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.