By Tim Marshall
This exact ebook, written by means of neighborhood specialists within the urban, bargains with the transformation of Barcelona over the last two decades. Barcelona has been held up as a version of city making plans and monetary regeneration among equipped surroundings pros. The remodel of sq. parks and streets in the course of the urban within the Eighties first attracted awareness and compliment after which the 1992 Olympics hosted within the urban raised overseas wisdom. 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 fiscal affects of regeneration.
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Since 2000 there has been sharp controversy about the plans for the 22@ Quarter in Poblenou. This scheme, which intensified development for both business and housing use well above Metropolitan Plan norms, was opposed vigorously by residents in the area, and in 2002 the council backed down to some extent, reducing intensity and the height of proposed tower blocks. More generally, there has been persistent criticism of the council’s inability to tackle housing needs, for those who cannot afford the spiralling cost of paying mortgages or rents in the city since the late 1980s.
More generally, there has been persistent criticism of the council’s inability to tackle housing needs, for those who cannot afford the spiralling cost of paying mortgages or rents in the city since the late 1980s. As mentioned above, this is not a failure limited to Barcelona amongst western cities. However, it is the one on which there has been perhaps most debate in recent years, and where the council’s record may be most clearly weak. If the Barcelona model includes such a central failure, then evidently that model needs careful examination before being given undiluted praise.
3%), nor the continuation, and even the aggravation, of very problematic situations for certain groups and certain areas. Among these, because of the severity of the problems that affect them, we can highlight a number of metropolitan neighbourhoods that represent 6% of total residential surface area, 180,000 homes and close to 400,000 inhabitants that, according to the administration, should be the object of “integral rehabilitation”. We refer to, especially, deteriorated central areas and housing estates built in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as some areas of marginal urbanization.
