Vicenç Martorell i Portas

Vicente Martorell Portas (1879 – 1956) was a Spanish military engineer, urban planner, and author.

Career From 1920 until 1924, Martorell served as the director of the Army's Topographical Engineers' Brigade, which drew up a topographic map of Barcelona for a study regarding the city's maritime defence. In October 1923, just a month after the 1923 Spanish coup d'état that established the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the government authorized the Topographical Brigade to facilitate a copy of the city's map to the Assembly of Barcelona, with Primo de Rivera himself, still Captain General of Catalonia, sponsoring the work to incorporate the final portion of the map in order to obtain a fully complete document suitable for diverse uses.

Once the Spanish Civil War was over, Martorell held the position of chief engineer of the group of technical services for urban planning of the City Council of Barcelona.

Personal life Martorell fellow Barcelona native Emilia Otzet, with whom he had at least four sons Ramón, Vicente, Fernando, and Alberto. The older two followed in his footsteps and became military engineers, while the younger two followed medicine and went on to become pioneers in Angiology. Cartografía local: planos geométricos de Barcelona de mediados del siglo XIX Cartografia nacional, regional y local Cartologia Local: Plano de Enlaces entre Nucleos de Poblaciones de Barcelona Historia del urbanismo en Barcelona: del plan Cerdá al Área Metropolitana Ildefonso Cerdá, el hombre y su obra: edición de homenaje del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, con motivo del centenario del la aprobación del proyecto de ensanche de la ciudad, 1859-1959 Organización general de los servicios técnicos municipales de ingeniería y arquitectura, en el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, y especial funcionamiento del Servicio del Plano de la Ciudad Plano de la ciudad complemento del dietario guía "Barcino" y que edita la Agrupación Benefico-Humanitaria de la Guardia Urbana de Barcelona Plano del casco antiguo de Barcelona Proceso urbanístico de Barcelona