Barcelona, Spain urban planning: a remarkable history of rebirth and transformation - Vox
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How the city grew, from pre-Christian Romans to Cerdà to the 1992 Olympics.
The story below is a brief history of urban planning and transformation in Barcelona, Spain. It provides background and context for a five-part series about the city’s current comprehensive urban plan, which would reclaim more than half the streets now devoted to cars for mixed-use public spaces, or “superblocks.” You can find part one of that story here. This project was supported by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where the author, David Roberts, is a senior fellow. Barcelona is in a perfect place for a city. On the northeastern corner of the…
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