The critical route of Manolo Laguillo through contemporary Valladolid

“‘The city’, says Manolo Laguillo, ‘is the largest of all human-made objects’. The city, in marked contrast to the residential settlements of the rural environment, is also, without a doubt, the most characteristic habitat model of today’s world. And yet its close connection with the present does not exclude a burden of historical substance that is essential to its configuration: with very few exceptions, the urban environments in which our lives unfold are the result of a condensation that has taken shape over extensive historical processes, in which growth, sedimentation, transformation and loss have coexisted permanently, right down to the present day with no solution of continuity. The city is thus ‘an oscillating flow, open to ongoing reconstruction and full of historical past’…”