BARCELONA/ THE URBAN EVOLUTION OF A COMPACT CITY

Barcelona can be regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long urban tradition. As such, it has undergone a s pecific process of historic formation: density and compactness of urban form, evolution by extension rather than by reform, etc. A h istory of urban planning necessarily includes a summary of the territorial and urban experience, and pays particular attention to th e physical dimensions of the city that condition its cultural and economic development. This book centers on the construction of Bar celona, ...[Llegir més]