04/2013

 

Edició
Maria Rubert de Ventós
Josep Parcerisa
Carles Crosas

Producció
Álvaro Clua
Claire Bellocq
Joaquim Sellas

Traducció anglès
Elaine Fradley

Projecte gràfic
Enric Satué Design

Consell Assessor
Verena Andreatta, Franziska Bollerey, Joan Busquets, Alberto Ferlenga, José Luis Gómez Ordóñez, Marta Gutman, Andreas Hofer, Stephan Mäder, Oriol Nel·lo, José Luis Oyón, Damián Quero, José Rosas, Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

Summary

  • Papers D’UR 04/2013 

    Rubert de Ventós, Maria; Parcerisa Bundó, Josep; Crosas Armengol, Carles (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
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    Open Access

  • [Editorial] 

    Rubert de Ventós, Maria; Parcerisa Bundó, Josep; Crosas Armengol, Carles (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access

  • El projecte urbà com a recerca 

    Busquets Grau, Joan (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    Centring on forms of intervention in the contemporary city, the article offers an initial outline of the principal commonplaces of 20th-century urbanism (the automobile and mass housing production), and architects and ...

  • La nit americana 

    Sardà Ferran, Jordi (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    Chosen from thousands of postcards in Jordi Sardà's private collection, this selection of just 12 images illustrates the magic of America by night. One next to the other, they piece together a mosaic of an urban reality ...

  • Transgressing the grid: adventures on (and off) Manhattan island 

    Kay, Philip (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    Philip Kay's text gives a biographical account of his love-hate relationship with the Manhattan street grid. His series of personal anecdotes reads like a list of offences; Manhattan's orderly system of streets and avenues ...

  • Quan la urbanització és U minúscula 

    Solé Gras, Josep Maria (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    The article explores the water-city relationship from the viewpoint of the most basic urban reality: one where the key objective is the physical construction of a space that is safe, served and equipped for people. In other ...

  • Recuperació dels cims del Turó de la Rovira, Barcelona 

    Jansana, Imma; Romero, Jordi (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    The recent silent intervention in the hill-top anti-aircraft batteries of El Carmel marks a new chapter in ongoing efforts to use public space in Barcelona to trigger social cohesion and citizen identity. Rather than ...

  • El temps perdut als passatges 

    Gómez Escoda, Eulalia Maria (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    Shortly after the demolition of its town walls, Barcelona saw the appearance of the first passageways, concentrated around its Plaça Reial. Today there are 15 or more, scattered throughout Ciutat Vella. Built over a century ...

  • Las estaciones que fundaron el metro en Santiago de Chile 

    Hidalgo Cepeda, Nancy Rocío (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    The article deals with the origins and the spatial expression of the first stations of Santiago de Chile’s Metro system, built in the 1970s as features in a major urban project: the modernization of the city by building ...

  • País Dogon: hipodesenvolupament i identitat 

    Vidal Pla, Miguel; Ayala, Angélica (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    This study carried out in Dogon country forms part of a research project about extreme cultural landscapes carried out by the Ginna Kanda collective, associated with the UPC and directed by the lecturer Miquel Vidal. It ...

  • En Paral·lel 

    Crosas Armengol, Carles; Gómez Escoda, Eulalia Maria (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    The urban transformation of Paral·lel, one of the principal avenues marking the boundary of the Eixample, is a topical issue in Barcelona. A few years ago, the rehabilitation of the emblematic Molino (BOPBAA arquitectos) ...

  • Fabra i Coats, Fábrica de creació 

    Bacardit Segués, Francisco; Ruisánchez Capelastegui, Manuel (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    The recently opened factory for creation and school for the arts is the subject of an Aperitiu by the LUB, which turns the seminar discussion into a site visit. The practices of Francesc Bacardit and Manuel Ruisánchez ...

  • Enllaços de Barcelona 

    Bohigas, Oriol (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    The exhibition "Barcelona, Links" and its catalogue identify seven central hubs in the metropolitan city with problems of continuity that disrupt the eficiency of urban reality. The title includes a reference to the ...

  • En Memòria de Manuel Ribas i Piera 

    Sagarra Trias, Ferran (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
    Article
    Open Access
    Grandson, son and father of architects, renowned professor and honoured urban planner, Manuel Ribas Piera was the foremost promoter of international relations at the Barcelona School of Architecture, inviting the best known ...

  • En Memòria de Manuel Ribas i Piera 

    Cantallops Valeri, Lluís (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
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    Open Access
    Manuel Ribas was an all-rounder: architect, lawyer, Professor of Urban Design at the ETSAB, bibliophile, disseminator and inveterate traveller. A connoisseur of European culture, he was in- fluenced by Gaston Bardet, ...

  • Abstracts 

    Unknown author (Laboratori d'Urbanisme de Barcelona, 2013)
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