Who only knows Guadalajara does not know Guadalajara

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Who only knows Guadalajara does not know Guadalajara

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By Juan Palomar That's how it is. The title of these lines paraphrases what was said by the great English historian Hugh Thomas speaking about Spain. Only with a minimal spatial and temporal perspective is it possible to understand phenomena as rich and complex as cities. Temporal, because it is the successive course of the seasons that makes those who live in a city acquire a consistent notion of the general built environment inserted in its natural conditions; also because only by inscribing a certain city in the long history of history, becoming aware of its circumstances, is it possible to understand its evolution, its meaning. The spatial perspective is double: that which can be seen within or around the city itself on the one hand; and, in an indispensable way.

That which is acquired by experiencing other urban realities, from similar or different latitudes and thus being able to complete a mental portrait from afar, and a structured interpretation of C Level Contact List the city in which one lives. And its possibilities. Examples can range from the most obvious to the most seemingly disparate. With these visits there will be a lot to think about, to put into perspective. Thanks to his travels, national and international, and his stays abroad, through which he was able to get to know Guadalajara better and its possibilities far from his hometown, an engineer from Guadalajara proposed various urban measures since the 1930s. Measures learned elsewhere and that allowed him to focus on Guadalajara from other latitudes.

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Thus, since then, he proposed, in all seriousness, to build underground galleries under all the streets of the city to carry drainage, drinking water, electricity, gas, telephone... just as he had seen in Paris or in Vienna. It is obvious to say the great advantages that such a measure, carried out in the then compact city and in all its subsequent urbanizations, would have brought (in addition, I said, the Guadalajara subsoil is very noble for building galleries). He also proposed from that time to depress the entire railway line that crosses the city: as happens throughout Europe. Such an action would have brought a lot to Guadalajara, which has since been hopelessly fractured by the roads. He proposed that all secondary streets retain their high-quality cobblestones.
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