TY - JOUR 
A1 - Ortega Ortega, Matilde
AU - Manteca Martínez, José Ignacio
AU - Calvo López, José
T1 - Vivienda obrera minera en Cartagena-La Unión
Y1 - 2015
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/10017
AB - The mining “boom” experienced during the XIX century in Cartagena caused a great demographic
increase.
Population that needs new housing moves to there in a desperate search of new incomes. New
villages rose such as “El Estrecho de San Gines” and “El Beal”, and the building of new houses in
old zones such as La Unión was increased drastically.
Negligible houses were built with similar characteristics, always constructed with poor materials due
to lower incomes. Even in the case of the poorest miners, dwelling in caves very close to the mine,
homes knowing as “casas-cueva”.
Meanwhile a rich highborn people, the owners of the mines, built new and luxury houses, influenced
by the modernist architecture wave that rules in Europe.
A deep investigation through every plane in the municipal archive of La Unión made locate old planes
possible, these planes together with searches over the remainders that nowadays are able to
find confirms the main features of the houses built during the objective epoch.
KW - Construcciones Arquitectónicas
KW - Materials
KW - Building
KW - Mine
KW - Dwelling
LA - spa
PB - Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
ER -