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Title: | Infrastructure and nation building: The regulation and financing of network transportation infrastructures in Spain (1720-2010) |
Author: | Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963- |
Keywords: | Infraestructures (Transport) Transport ferroviari Trens d'alta velocitat Política de transports Transportation buildings Railroad transportation High speed trains Transportation and state |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IR10/16] |
Abstract: | This paper analyzes Spanish infrastructure policy since the early 1700s: Road building in the eighteenth century, railway creation and expansion in the nineteenth, motorway expansion in the twentieth, and high speed rail development in the twenty-first. The analysis reveals a long-term pattern, in which infrastructure policy in Spain has been driven not by the requirements of commerce and economic activity, but rather by the desire to centralize transportation around the country’s political capital. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2010/201016.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2010, IR10/16 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/58982 |
ISSN: | 2014-1254 |
Appears in Collections: | Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) |
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