Town planning and working housing in Balaguer (1939 - 1962). Occupation of the left margin

Abstract

The urbanization of the opposite margin of the river to the historic settlement has turned out a costly and slow task. In the case of Balaguer the beating of this urban barrier also delayed in excess, being initiated in the 1939 with the construccion of a new bridge and the subsequent urbanization of an avenue that it to join with the station of railroad, one of the few infrastructures that occupied the left margin. Being initiated in that moment the planning of the widen. Being the groups of dwelling protected the following investments in this margin, with the purpose of alleviating the serious problem of the dwelling.