University and territory in the metropolitan area of Madrid

This work, which belongs to a larger search, approaches the Madrid university network with a comprehensive and primarily temporary perspective, showing not only their characteristics but also their origins and main changes, which have been specially strong since the end of 1960. Besides, we set out the present situation, which perhaps could help to draw up a plan for its quite uncertain future. To accomplish this aim we consider appropriate to put it in a larger framework, referring to former studies on the same subject as well as to the conceptual and theoretical frame of this work.