"Todos llevamos una ciudad dentro" Espacios perdidos y evocados en el Bilbao finisecular
ISSN: 1137-4888
Year of publication: 2011
Issue Title: Bilbo: hirigunea, zabalkudeak eta mugaK = Bilbao: espacio, expansión y fronteras
Issue: 22
Pages: 135-145
Type: Article
More publications in: Bidebarrieta: Revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales de Bilbao
Abstract
Cities are more than just a set of buildings and streets. Along with stone and cement their inhabitants construct them out of dreams and memories. When Bilbao became a modern industrial city at the end of the nineteenth century, it was redefined in terms of novelty, but also in terms what was forgotten. The attitude to monuments of the past became selective, giving rise to criticism and nostalgia. Amongst others, Antonio Trueba and Miguel de Unamuno evoked an industrial Bilbao populated by absences, spaces as significant as those that had been built up.