Bel i Queralt, Germà, 1963-2014-10-232014-10-2320102014-1254https://hdl.handle.net/2445/58982This 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.35 p.application/pdfengcc-by-nc-nd, (c) Bel i Queralt, 2010http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Infraestructures (Transport)Transport ferroviariTrens d'alta velocitatPolítica de transportsTransportation buildingsRailroad transportationHigh speed trainsTransportation and stateinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper2014-10-23info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess