Barcelona 1714

The Barcelona Model
Urban Structure of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area
Blanca Arellano
blanca.arellano-ramos@upc.edu
Technical University of Catalonia
The construction of a compact city
Barcelona 1714
Virtual reconstruction
by CPSV - LMVC
1563, Anthonis van den Wyngaerde
La desamortización: (secularization) Reclaiming of public space for the Old City
“El Ensanche” (the expansion): plan for the “liberal city”
El Ensanche by Ildefons Cerdà (1859)
… a “metropolitan” project
The internal
reform
Pla Baixeras (1879)
Via Laietana (1909)
The Universal Expo of 1888: public space for the city
Universal Exposition of 1888: public space for the city
The Universal Exposition of 1888: public space for the city
The
International
Exposition of
Barcelona 1929
The
incorporation
of landscape
Change of scale: from the city to the metropolitan area (1953 - )
El Plan
comarcal de
1953
(Regional Plan),
beginning of the
metropolitan
scale change
Plan Director del Área Metropolitana (1964)
From Plan Director (1964) to Metropolitan General Plan of 1976
Plan General Metropolitano de 1976
Projects for a compact city
City and democracy: the Barcelona model and the democratization of the city in
the political transition (1979-1992)
Opening to the sea. The city starts to turn its eyes to the sea
The Olympic City, a project for the
city branding of Barcelona
(1986-1992)
After the Olympics Barcelona became a destination
Barcelona: model of compactness and urban renewal
Barcelona: model of compactness and urban renewal
Post Olympic projects (1992 - )
Diagonal Mar
Plaza Las Glorias and the opening of Av. Diagonal to the sea
Plan 22@
From industrial to technological
district
3,2
0,4
12%
H
2,7
88%
A
El Forum de las Culturas (2004)
Barcelona: urban regeneration
Barcelona: urban regeneration
From a compact city to a sprawled metropolis?
The land consumption
(1990-2000)
Barcelona (RMB)
4,5 milions d’habitants
675 km2
Atlanta (UA):
3,5 milions d’habitants
5083 km2
Regional Planning of Barcelona (2010)
The evolution of built up area of Barcelona Region
ÀMBIT PTMB
Època Medieval
Segle XVI-XVII
Fi XVII-Inicis XVIII
Fins a 1880
Fins a 1920
Fins a 1956/57
Fins a 1972
Fins a 1986
Fins a 1992
Falta informació
Institut d’Estudis Territorials
2005-2007 (CREAF)
Habitatges
Viviendas
Alta Densidad
Nhabitg Bloc
Baja Densidad
Totales
1900553
544905
2445458
78%
22%
100%
Nhabitg IllaTancada
467406
1433147
Nhabitg UnifAilladaPareada
262879
Nhabitg UnifLiniaITancada
282026
Patterns of land occupation
In Europe, versus traditional compactness and high density of Mediterranean
cities, the urban sprawl has characterized the pattern of occupation of the territory
of Nordic countries, representing both models a distinct type of building a city, a
kind of "vernacular urbanism“.
Convergence between the models of urban land
occupation
From the 50’s of XX Century, and specially
since the generalization of the “American
dream” (a single family home & a car),
related to the crisis of the Fordist
industrial city, there has been a gradual
process of convergence between models
of land occupation of Mediterranean
urban systems and the central and
northern Europe.
The urban sprawl, has become a
paradigm at the periphery of the
European metropolis, regardless of
inherited cultural and historical roots,
although with some differences.
Thanks for your attention!
“We shape our
cities; thereafter
they shape us”
Blanca Arellano
blanca.arellano-ramos@upc.edu
http://futur.upc.edu/BlancaEsmaragda
ArellanoRamos
http://www.upc.edu/cpsv/
Barcelona, marzo de 2015