Seville

Urban voids are spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, and can be springboards to foster change, creativity and political action.

Miguel Torres García is an architect, holding an MSc degree in Spatial Planning (KTH, Sweden) and a PhD in Human Geography (University of Manchester, UK). Experienced in the fields of architecture, planning, heritage, and landscape, his research interests encompass urban studies, history, and the rapport between practice and the built environment.

Introduction, 1. Towards Understanding Urban Voids, 2. The Bricolage of an Urban Space: Seville and the Alameda as Colonial Centres in the 16th Century, 3. Clashing Urbanisms: Enlightened vs. Religious Ritualisation in the Alameda de Hércules, 4. A Void Again: Decay of the Alameda from the 19th Century to Francoism, 5. Fetishisation and the Recovery of the Alameda, Conclusions, Appendice