Meritxell Gisbert Traveria, member of the GEHC, tells his thesis, entitled Cartografia i transformació del territori a Catalunya entre l’Antic Règim i la Revolució liberal (ss. XVIII-XIX): el paper de la família Soler, in this talk from the past 28 January 2021, which was organised by the Societat Catalana de Geografia.

The thesis was read on June 20, 2017. It aims to demonstrate how, from the middle of the 18th century, cartography became an increasingly important instrument in the growing transformation process that the Catalan territory was experiencing (use of natural resources, reforms of the administrative and judicial map, reform of the fiscal system and planning of urban space). This he achieves from the study of the cartographic work of the Soler family, a lineage from Barcelona of housemasters and architects, from the middle of the 18th century to the middle of the following century.