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Pérez del Caño García, Silvia.

1. Introduction

In recent years we are celebrating in many main cities of Spain the railway arrival hundred and fifth
anniversary. An event that becomed in a great change in its history, its dynamics, itseconomy and its way
of relating with the world.
The later urban phenomenon has been similar in all of them. The cities have been growing
around the railway node until gobbled the railway stations and their annexed facilities, that
although they were originally constructed in the urban fringe, happened to be irremediably
inthe central nucleus of the city.

Valencia City from 1852 to present

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