Land and Environment in the Community of Madrid. New cultural water landscapes from the field population

Abstract

Madrid is the largest conurbation in the country, which takes the form of "city region " , ie a big city made up of a core urban area , as a metropolitan area, a city scattered a complicated definition , and half rururban complex . Therefore, to approach the new cultural landscapes of water, in this research we analyze, from the conditions to which he was subjected to water supply infrastructure through historic Madrid , the growth process at an early stage , and development , more recently , of the population of those municipalities that pass and run the channels carried the study. Finally, note that the construction of these infrastructures had an undeniable demographic effect, affecting mainly the existing population centers, dynamising and increasing the number of its inhabitants in a progressive and diverse in their geographical distribution.