Municipal changes in the Comunidad de Madrid (1900-2003).

Abstract

The municipalities constitute the geographical basic environment of politics in our current administrative organisation of management and territorial organisation. For this reason, we considered of interest to know the processes and the dynamics of these changes, as far as they are related with the evolution of the territorial model of the Community of Madrid, a community governed by a great city region and a rural space in mutation. The relationship existing between this evolution —the ideological and cultural bases that sustained the plans of urban planning and their implementation—, and the changes are those analysed in this paper. Tres Cantos, as a new city, segregated of a rural municipality, and the municipal annexations of Madrid after the Spanish civil war, are the most significant events of the alterations to the municipal map during the XXth century