Carlos María de Castro (24 September 1810 - 2 November 1893) was a Spanish

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. He created the plan of the urban expansion (''

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'') of

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

. The New Plan of Madrid was commissioned in 1857 and adopted in 1860.Luis de Sobrón Martínez and María José Muñoz de Pablo (2018
"Madrid's Expansion Palimpsest"
in ''EGA: revista de expresión gráfica arquitectónica'', Vol.23, No.33, pp.118-129. It was inspired by some technical aspects of

Ildefons Cerdà Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer (; es, Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer; December 23, 1815, Centelles – August 21, 1876, Caldas de Besaya) was a Spanish urban planner and engineer who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the ''Eixampl ...

's early studies and plans for the extension of Barcelona.Hall T. (1997) Planning Europe's Capital Cities. London: E&FN Spon., pp.144-157 But unlike Cerdà who sought to avoid social segregation, Castro proposed functional and social

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19th-century Spanish architects Spanish urban planners 1810 births 1893 deaths Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni {{Spain-architect-stub