ABSTRACT
In the previous chapters I have proposed an understanding of how urban spaces take shape, not only as a result of programmatic design, but also through a bricolage of materials and practices consolidated by a process of ritualisation. In this chapter I use the example of the Alameda to portray the opposite, a trajectory of decay. Despite the failure of the enlightened ideal in Seville and the ousting of its champions, their initiatives would jump-start several processes affecting the entire city, and the Alameda in particular, throughout the 19th and the first third of the 20th centuries.
