La acción del poder público sobre el privado: la normativa sobre saledizos y balcones en la ciudad de Valencia en el siglo de las luces.

Abstract

Banned by the first Privileges of James I and by the Castilian Renaissance rules enforced after the Nueva Planta decrees (1707), still in the middle of the eighteenth century, overhangs and balconies over the public street were a problem for the city of Valencia. Indeed, the dimen-sions of these elements sometimes made impossible for transients to use the streets or they endangered people because of the poor conditions of those structures’ maintenance. This study, based on unpublished sources from the Municipal Historical Archive of Valencia, relates the development of the legal instruments of the administrative power of the city of Valencia to counteract a situation of widespread and entrenched illegality in order to relocate the public interest over the private one.

Keywords

• balcony
• valencia
• cantilevering constructive features
• tribu-nal del repeso
• archivo histórico municipal de valencia