Ex-home: voids and ruins of Barcelona's renovation
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-3341.pontourbe.2025.235168Keywords:
grand projects, urban renewall, ruinsAbstract
This visual essay reflects on the process of ruination and infrastructural destruction put into practice in urban renewal projects. Known as the "Barcelona model", the practice of strategic planning promises to "renew" the uses of historical, port and/or industrial neighborhoods considered "degraded" and "empty", however composing a process of "letting die" old properties that are bought and demolished to build new condominiums and shopping centers.
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