Yes, we certainly did. Just 5 years after the death of the dictator, we organized a public company, which undertook the first urban planning Plan for the city of Madrid, after 40 years of dictatorship. There was a new local government, elected for the first time just over a year ago, with the great mayor Tierno at the head. After a few months of unsuccessful urban management, it was decided to undertake the review of the formal Plan that was in force. It was metropolitan in scope, approved in 1963, removing municipal urban planning powers from an entity of the central administration. It was therefore necessary to achieve two objectives: recover the powers taken from the local government and design a new plan based on the specific problems of the city, from the bottom up. They both caught up. The article argues that this double success could be achieved, by having won the cultural battle and by having come to lead the urban narrative in the previous decade, the 70s, at the end of the Franco regime and along the Transition. This was allowed by the great urban-political activism, deployed in the face of the precarious and deprived city, the result of the late but very accelerated process of rural–urban transfer. The background that made possible the rapid improvement of the city based on the new Plan is then described, for the first time focused on the existing city, instead of its accelerated growth.