Main entry:

Solà-Morales i Rubió, Manuel de.

Title & Author:

Diez lecciones sobre Barcelona : los episodios urbanísticos que han hecho la ciudad moderna = Ten lessons on Barcelona : urbanistic episodes that have made the modern city / Manuel de Solà-Morales i Rubió.

Publication:

Barcelona : Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya : Distribution, Actar D, 2008.

Description:

578 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 17 cm

Notes:
Rev. and updated lectures.
Preface: Barcelona, workshop of urbanism -- The Ferran-Princesa Axis and the Transverse orientation of modern Barcelona -- Placa de Palau, or the cost of turning seaward at the wrong time -- The New Town of Gracia: the ordering of artisans' parcelling -- The Junta's Roads: radial facades on the Barcelona plain -- The Eixample: the practical success of a theoretical project -- Orchards, Factories, and Villas: railways give shape to the Comarca -- Annexation Decrees and the Pla D'Enlaces: Barcelona, fabric of small towns -- La Ciutadella and Montjuic: the city has two ears -- The 1957 Pla D'Urgencia: proletarian Barcelona, mosaic of Projects -- Motorways and Tunnels: expanding metropolis or metropolitan indecision?
Text in English and Spanish.
"Premi Ciutat de Barcelona"--Cover

ISBN:

9788496842243 (paperback)
849684224X (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Spain Barcelona History.
Buildings
City planning
Barcelona (Spain) Buildings, structures, etc. History.
Spain Barcelona
Barcelona (Spain) Buildings, structures, etc.

Form/genre:

Lectures.
History

Added entries:

Ten lessons on Barcelona : urbanistic episodes that have made the modern city

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 268599
Call No.: BIB 200421
Status: Available