By Tim Marshall
This particular booklet, written via neighborhood specialists within the urban, bargains with the transformation of Barcelona over the past two decades. Barcelona has been held up as a version of city making plans and fiscal regeneration among equipped setting pros. The redecorate of sq. parks and streets through the urban within the Nineteen Eighties first attracted realization and compliment after which the 1992 Olympics hosted within the urban raised foreign know-how. the town bought many awards and accolades together with a Gold Medal from the RIBA. the choice of writings is definitely illustrated all through with maps, drawings and pictures and may be of curiosity to architects, planners and concrete designers in addition to these attracted to the social and financial affects of regeneration.
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These phenomena could lead to dualization of the city, in the sense that it could become a place suitable only for the very rich or for the very poor. 17 Statistical evidence, fortunately, denies this hypothesis. a As we have explained above, differences between the central city and the metropolitan rings, in terms of average incomes, have tended to diminish in the past 15 years. 5 to 1 in the year 2000. c Similarly, total income distribution both in the central city and in the metropolitan rings has tended to become more equitable (as the analysis based on the calculation of Gini indexes shows).
Clearly, this part thus lays no claim, any more than the rest of the book, to being an objective account of what happened, whatever that may look like from some more remote historical standpoint. The chapters deal with quite varying slices of what has happened in urban change and the role of planning in the city. Nello’s takes a wider view, looking at Barcelona within its metropolitan region, whilst that of Calavita and Ferrer gives a more historical account of how the residents movement of the 1970s crucially shaped so much of what followed.
This is a district which was traditionally the city’s eastern industrial centre (the other is found in the west, towards the Delta del Llobregat). In this area there has been a modification of the General Metropolitan Plan (passed on 27 July 2000) in order to allow for the establishment of new activities and the combination of uses. The old zoning of industrial land has been transformed into a new category, known as 22@, which, in an innovative manner, aims to attract activities linked to emerging sectors in manufacturing and creative industries (software production, telecommunications, multimedia, press, data-processing and electronic commerce, artistic activity and centres of investigation and education).