Barcelona

Chiara Ingrosso

With the end of Francoism in 1975, a decisive moment in Spanish and European history, Barcelona becomes one of the most active sites of urban experimentation in the country and in the world. From the first town plan inspired by Oriol Bohigas and a new generation of progressive Catalan planners, passing through experiments on the active role of public space with the creation of hundreds of new squares, parks and gardens, and from the Olympic city of 1992 to the metropolis of the Forum of Cultures in 2004 and the definition of a new area, Barcelona was turned into an unprecedented model of planning and economics that could be exportedand applied in other metropolitan situations. Chiara Ingrosso's book takes the form of a surprising contemporary urban history that investigates, through a thorough analysis of the documentary sources and a series of dialogues with some of the protagonists,...