El planeamiento urbano de mediados del siglo XIX: el plan geométrico o de alineaciones de Alcoy de 1849

Geometrical planes of alignment and rectification of cities, created by R.O. of 25th. July of 1846, represented an important advance in the ranking of our cities, and evident although that, minimum progress in relation with the previous urban practicies, based in the formulation of standard body building ordinances and urban police and regulations of public adornment. However, the law continuos to suffer from a vision much wider and above all far-sighted, centred in the commitment in opening new roads, the rectification of the layout of them and removal of obstacles roads. In this way, Alcoy approved their Plan of Alignments and Rectification of roads in 1849, a plan that was carried out very slowly and with hardly any repercussion in the urban general development of the city.