Neither Jekyll nor Hyde : the ambivalent nature of madrid modernization process (1900-1936)

Abstract

Modernity implied a decisive transformation of urban societies during the first third of the twentieth century. Madrid was a center of reference for assessing the impact of the complex and unstable process of change and resistance in Spain. Railway, cinema and urban space are analyzed as symbolic elements of a type of modernization with many lights and shadows. Several documentary sources are used to perform it.