[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
Marga ppt 10 nov 8 part ii
1. The Urban Century: Theory and Practice
Urban Foundation Course
Fall 2010 / Class 10, November 8
Modes of Intervention 1
Urban Plans and Theories
Part II
3. Paris, Haussmann Plan 1850s
Streets and boulevards,
façade regulations
opened to real state
Water and sewers
Private and public investments
Annexation of suburbs…
5. September 11, 1714: The city falls to the King Felipe V
Bourbons Dynasty - Building of the of the citadel
demolished in 1868 Park 1888 Universal Exhibition
9. ... the city as a stage ... ...monuments.... vistas... ...a celebration of the city...
10. Mies Van Der Rohe - German Pavilion
...contrasts...
11. Pueblo Español
Today it is another neigbourhood
Not demolished, responding to people’s demands
12. Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin for Paris 1922-1929
contrasted with
the existing
city structure
in the context
of the
inner city
Applies the concepts develop in the Contemporary City of 3 million people (1922)
24 skyscrapers arranged around a central traffic hub
city crown within an large green area,
divided by a system of hierarchically arranged streets (reign of the automobile)
The four functions (work, dwelling, leisure and traffic) clearly segregated
13. La Ville Radieuse, 1935
(The Radiant City)
Used in The Athens Charter (1943)
Segregation of Function
Differentiation of Urban Functions,
Methodical separation
A Universal Formal Solution
Proposed as an instrument
which can and must be used to
solve problems in architecture and
urban planning
at any time…. any place…
A concentrated and dense City
Strong Centrality
Skyscrapers? inspired in New York..!
14. The Functional City in Barcelona, 1932 !
Le Corbusier and Gacpac, Macia plan
* No Gatcpac architect involved in the BCN renewal of 1929 exhibition
•Redistribution of urban land and rationalization of transport and communication and
infrastructure
* Business center at the waterfront
* Keeping the existing city (Barrio Gotico and Eixample) + 2 new districts of Super block
dwellings, linked by a new superhighway bisecting the city connecting
* with the industrial area and “Ciutat de Repos” on the Mediterranean coast
15. After the Civil War: Franco regime
by 1950 > 500,000 people came to the city
chaotic and speculative growth
1960 > 1,600,000 inhabitants
poverty and “barracas”
1975 > Franco dies
1979 > first elected mayor in 40 years
1980 > 1,755,000 inhabitants
…
New School graduate Pasquall Maragall becomes Mayor of Barcelona (1982-1996)
and (2004-2006) he was President of the Generalitat.
in 1987 BCN wins the bid for the Olympic Games 1992 !
16. Olympic Games 1992
Changes in Barcelona, & changes in its perception in the world stage
…towards becoming a Global City…
Crucial Role of the Municipality and the community
Building of Villa Olimpica, and Olimpic Stadium
But, also, remodelation and building infrastructure
streets, trees, housing rehabilitation
in peripheral and dilapidated neighborhoods
who won today…??
23. … and BCN looking for more … >
Barcelona, 2004
Universal Forum of Cultures
Competitive cultural features
Public works
Infrastructure
Completing Cerda’s Urban Plan
38. “This is the paradox of urbanization. The whole is projected,
its dimensions are staked out, plans are published, and the model
is exhibited.
Then perhaps one epoch lacks the creative power, another the
economic power, and another the political stability to carry out
the plan. Only parts are completed. The next or a later
generation takes up the idea.
Again plans are developed, parts completed. But each part,
throughout the future, will speak of the whole from which is has
sprung.
As centuries pass, the totalitykk unites into an image of
the centuries: multiform, burdened and tested by history,
a work of succeeding ages, a dwelling place that could ,
and still can, convey the forces that formed it.”
Wolfgang Braunfels,
Urban Design in Western Europe: Regime and Architecture, 900-1900, p.371
