Menouer, Ouassila(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-04-17)
[EN] From the 16th century and under the Ottoman reign, the city of Algiers was called the protected city or "el Mahroussa", a name that comes to it, from the system of fortifications, which ensured its protection and its ...
Zapata Parra, José(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-05-15)
[EN] Five hundred years after the construction of the castle of Mula, which was ordered to build the I Mar-qués de los Vélez, Pedro Fajardo Chacón, as a result of his expulsion from the town during the commu-nal uprisings ...
Muñoz Corbalán, Juan(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] The Barcelona Harbor played an important role as a part of the Spanish defensive system from the
beginning of the XVIIIth Century. Among all interventions by military engineers can be highlighted the
fight against ...
[EN] Most of the walls of Cádiz is mainly due to the works carried out on the seventeenth century. During
this period the defenses of the Puerta Tierra wall –the city’s only terrestrial communication point– were
expanded ...
Lozano-Martínez, Ramón; Arévalo-Rodríguez, Federico; Granado-Castro, Gabriel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-12-28)
[EN] After a little more than two centuries of evolution throughout the Modern Age, in the second half of the 18th century the city of Cádiz was a paradigm among the strong cities of the Spanish Empire, being the headquarters ...
[EN] Previous studies have identified links between the urban form and the performance of urban energy systems. Land use and density are two important aspects of urban planning and design. This paper studies the relationship ...
Vázquez-Manassero, Margarita-Ana(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-10-16)
[EN] The engineer Bautista Antonelli’s (Gatteo, c.1545 - Madrid, 1616) unpublished testament is a precious
document as its terms reveal interesting information about his biographical and professional features.
On the one ...
[EN] Expansion was accompanied by a multitude of fortification projects, reflecting the divergent conceptions of French occupation.The Algerian towns of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries then, were formed in various ...
Micara, Ludovico(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-04-17)
[ES] Sabbioneta is one of the few new Italian cities created in the 16th century. Founded by Vespasiano Gonzaga (1531-1591) between 1560 and 1570, it brings together many of the aspects that will characterize the post-16th ...