Housing and social class: La Prosperidad, the historical suburb at present Madrid

Abstract

The nineteenth-century periferies of the main spanish cities are today areas under constant transformation, in which are disapearing different types of characteristics centered in the old housing, working and middle-class houses. Some of this houses, were detereorate and, at present time, some of them have became the home of inmigrant groups. The growing interest of investors towards those districts, well situated around of the town centre, encouraged a trend of intense renovation during the 20th century second half. Those processes resulted the contemporary heritage devastation and on a house prices rise which favors the upper classes to the detriment of inmigrants.