Toward an urbanismo austríaco. An Examination of Sources for Urban Planning in the Spanish Habsburg World

Architecture in the Age of the Spanish Habsburgs

“…Likewise, ordinances issued from the Spanish Habsburg court gave shape to new towns, as well as to ideas about the monuments that adorned these places far and wide, to promote the idea that a well-ordered city reflected a well-governed polity. 27 When considered within the global reach of the Spanish Habsburg Empire, the standard narrative of early modern architectural history concerned with nationalist traditions and stylistic developments begins to feel limited, and the absence of the Spanish world is difficult to justify. In his classic study with which I opened this essay, Fernand Braudel demanded that the Mediterranean "be accepted as a wide zone, extending well beyond the shores of the sea in all directions."…”