ABSTRACT
A reformist urbanism, a specific approach of urbanismo and urbanistica first theorized in Italy by left-wing urban planners, began to gain strength. The history of urban planning and design of the second half of the 19th century is an important field of research in both Spain and Italy, with an extensive literature. The approach to modern urbanism in Southern European countries has differed from Anglo-Saxon planning since the beginning of the field. Some studies of modernist Latin European urbanism during the interwar period have argued that it "absorbed modernity" during the first decades of the 20th century. The Latin European approach was not necessarily related to the problems of industrialization or the innovations of town planning; it was rather a parallel strategy to deal with urban growth and focused on urban improvement. Latin European planning history has focused more on urban forms and technical aspects of planning than on other social and economic issues.
