La creación del "Gran Bilbao" en el franquismo y el alcalde Joaquín Zuazagoitia (1942-1959)
ISSN: 1137-4888
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: Bilbo: hirigunea, zabalkudeak eta mugaK = Bilbao: espacio, expansión y fronteras
Issue: 22
Pages: 79-92
Type: Article
More publications in: Bidebarrieta: Revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales de Bilbao
Abstract
This article analyses the process of the urban and institutional definition of Greater Bilbao (Gran Bilbao). In the following pages we explain its antecedents and formulation at the beginning of the 1940s, and the weak development it underwent in the fifties, during the term of office of mayor Joaquín Zuazagoitia (1942-1959). We pay special attention to the political aspects of the process that, according to our interpretation, determined the urban and institutional failure of Greater Bilbao.