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Spanish cities preserve in their peripheries and late expansions a fabric from another era: the residential estates of developmentalism, those sets of repeated blocks, disproportionate avenues and inhospitable squares that were built between the late 1950s and early 1970s.
These were at the time the response to a demographic emergency in which millions of people left the countryside to live in industrial cities. Architecture and urban planning were then presented as bearers of modernity composed of hygienic housing, collective facilities and a new way of urban life.
