Researchers
JOSÉ LUIS URTEAGA GONZÁLEZ
José Luis Urteaga González is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Barcelona. Since obtaining his degree in Geography and History in 1980, he has been a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1980-1982) and at the University of Lleida (1982-1987); since 1987, he has been a lecturer at the Geography and History Faculty of the University of Barcelona. He has given courses at the Geografisk Institut of the University of Copenhagen (1989) and at the Centre for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon (1990), and has been “Visiting Fellow” at the European University Institute (Florence) and at York University (Toronto). A specialist in historical geography, he has devoted part of his research to the history of environmental ideas and to the historical geography of industrialisation, subjects on which he has published two books and various articles. Since 1989 he has been working in the field of cartographic history, with special attention being given to Spanish topographical cartography, cadastral cartography and to the history of colonial and military cartography. He is a founding member of the History of Cartography Study Group.
Publications
- MONTANER, Carme y URTEAGA, Luis (2012): Italian Mapmakers in the Spanish Civil War (1937-1939), Imago Mundi: International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 64, Part 1, pp. 78-95
- URTEAGA, Luis y NADAL, Francesc (2011): La sección cartográfica del Estado Mayor Central durante la Segunda República (1931-1936), Hispania: revista española de historia, vol. LXXI, nº 239, pp. 763-788. [PDF]
- URTEAGA, Luis y NADAL, Francesc (2010): La cartografía colonial española durante la Segunda República (1931-1936), Estudios Geográficos, vol. LXXI, nº 268, pp. 267-297. [PDF]
- URTEAGA, Luis (2009): Los mapas y la historia del paisaje: una reflexión a partir de la cartografía histórica de las ciudades de Marruecos, en Javier Maderuelo (ed.): Paisaje e Historia, Madrid, Abada Editores, pp. 243-274.
- URTEAGA, Luis (2008): Dos décadas de investigación sobre historia de la cartografía catastral en España (1988-2008), CT Catastro, nº 63, pp. 7-30. [PDF]
- URTEAGA, Luis (2006): Vigilia colonial. Cartógrafos militares españoles en Marruecos (1882-1912), Barcelona, Edicions Bellaterra/Ministerio de Defensa, 2006, 262 pp.