Photography
Personal project
Analogic 6x7cm
A random tour of the city’s outline
(Analogic 6x7cm)
Barcelona overflows. Due to its varied and rapid growth, especially in the last hundred years, it gives rise to different combinations of urban fabric. Interweaving transit spaces and non-places with corners of surplus identity, it projects itself to the world as a global city.
The urban order, so sought after by academic theory in the Cerdà Plan, is maintained as a testimony in the city of postcards. This order is fragmented in the periphery, disappears in the daily confusion and is reflected not only in its morphology but also in the rich cultural diversity that entails different customs, uses and appropriations of space.
It combines low-rise neighborhoods, social housing estates, recent urban redevelopment plans (such as 22@), eviction and relocation processes due to public works or real estate speculation, squatting, spontaneous growth due to lack of regulations and situations of abandonment or neglect.
The periphery, then, constitutes a scenario where the city manifests itself as a sum of diversities and expresses the social and cultural pluralism of its inhabitants.
