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The celebration of the Games was a challenge for the urban planning of the city, and was a platform for a determined strategic urban planning action, with a perfect harmony between social and economic agents, which led to a new projection of the city both nationally and internationally, and led to talk of a "Barcelona model" as an integrative ...
Revolt of 1842 against Espartero. In 1841 the Barcelona City Council announced a competition to promote the development of the city. On September 11, 1841, the prize was awarded to Dr. Pedro Felipe Monlau, doctor and hygienist, author of the work Abajo las murallas, Memoria acerca de las ventajas que reportaría a Barcelona y especialmente a su industria de la demolición de las murallas que ...
Ildefons Cerdà Sunyer [1] (Catalan pronunciation: [ildəˈfons səɾˈða i suˈɲe]; Spanish: Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer; 23 December 1815, Centelles (Catalonia) – 21 August 1876, Caldas de Besaya (Cantabria)) was a Spanish urban planner and civil engineer who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the Eixample.
Barcelona has an area of 102.16 km 2, 25.7% of which is public space (16.3% streets and the rest are green areas). [1] In 2009, there were 703,540 urban elements in Barcelona's public spaces, [2] one for every 8 m 2 of sidewalk. [3]
Vicente Guallart is former chief architect of Barcelona City Council 2011-2015 with the responsibility of developing the strategic vision of the transformation of the city and its major development projects. He was the first general manager of Urban Habitat, a new department created in Barcelona City Council to encompass the areas of urban ...
Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities: Contents: 0–9
The urban area – the core of the metropolitan area – of Barcelona has a population of 4,604,000, [2] being the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid and Milan. The Larger Urban Zone has a population of 4,440,629 [3] according to Eurostat.
Supermanzanas are a sustainable urban design concept that involves several blocks joined together to create a pedestrian-friendly zone that reduces traffic, noise, and pollution levels. This approach is being successfully implemented in Barcelona, [3] with the most well-known example being the Poblenou Supermanzana. The superblocks in Barcelona ...