Barcelona: The Urban Evolution of a Compact City

Barcelona can be regarded as a prototype of a European Mediterranean city with a long urban tradition.

As such, it has undergone a specific process of historic formation: density and compactness of urban form, evolution by extension rather than by reform, etc. A history of urban planning necessarily includes a summary of the territorial and urban experience, and pays particular attention to the physical dimensions of the city that condition its cultural and economic development.

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