Sources for the research project of environmental history

As this research project is focused in a period of time in the past, the research project will work
only on secondary sources of information:

a) Cartographic sources: The main problem of this issue is the urbanization of

neighbourhoods without urban planning, so maps of the uses of soil previous and later
than the 60s could give us an idea about the magnitude and the situation of these
neighbourhoods. Also this type of information can provide data on why it was built in
those areas and not in other parts of the municipality.
b) Newspapers: As the starting point of this research proposal is a catastrophic event, the
newspapers of those days can reflect the main ideas and reactions of the different
actors that took part in it, as well as posterior newspapers can also show later
investigations or opinions of experts about the event.
c) Interviews: The period of the research is the middle 60s, so nowadays we can found
people that can explain us not only the different perspectives, causes and
consequences of the events, but also how they live and react. Also interviews with
people of the current administration can proportionate us data about the paper of the
main actors.
d) Demographic statistics: The main cause of the non-planned neighbourhoods
construction was the migration movements from the South of Spain towards
Catalonia, so a demographic point of view about the movements and distribution of
the population.
e) Bibliography: Finally, bibliography is necessary to be reviewed in order to obtain a
deep contextualization of the study case and the later investigations about it.