Squaring the Circle: The Urban Metamorphosis for a New Center of Barcelona

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Pascual, Arnau [author.]

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Computer filePublication details: urbanNext, November 10, 2020.Description: 2519 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes appeared for the first time as a square in 1859 in the Cerdà Plan for the Eixample of Barcelona, submitted to a competition for the expansion of the city, which was considered a pioneering project in the evolution of modern urban planning. The plan aspired to design a city through a square block grid, wide streets with integrated services networks (water, sewage system and gas) and green spaces; to give total priority to the citizens in contrast to the unhealthy situation inside the old city walls.

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Arnau Pascual, Essay, No Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Barcelona, Essay, Future cities, Political & Economic Approach, Politics, Urban planning

Essay written for the Wahlfacharbeit 14 course during the Spring Semester of 2014, Darch at ETH Zürich. Conducted by Sarah Nichols, former Teaching and Research Assistant, Chair of Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil ETH Zurich 2011-2015.

Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes appeared for the first time as a square in 1859 in the Cerdà Plan for the Eixample of Barcelona, submitted to a competition for the expansion of the city, which was considered a pioneering project in the evolution of modern urban planning. The plan aspired to design a city through a square block grid, wide streets with integrated services networks (water, sewage system and gas) and green spaces; to give total priority to the citizens in contrast to the unhealthy situation inside the old city walls.

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