urban change
Barcelona, irregular borders
They keep calling them “baracche” (shanties)
To destroy and to construct: history of a factory
- More post on Can Ricart: research Del Plan de la Ribera al 22@ - video Des del ressentiment, o la batalla per Can Ricart (2006)
- At 6pm, presentation of three rehabilitation projects for factories in Barcelona: Fàbriques de creació, Can Batlló, La Escocesa [see also the post on Can Batlló]
Sulukule: the first gypsy neighborhood in Europe
Foreigner Rome (the uses of diversity)
Photos: Barcelona’s Montjuïc
Four photos of Montjuïc mountain, when there still were people living on it. Even if for history it was only “slums”, many of them remember houses, written records, roads and street numbers. These photos come from private collections of former residents of “Eduardo Aunós” neighborhood. The old slum dwellers, almost all of them from Murcia or Andalusia, had to leave their houses in the 1920s, because of the celebration of an Universal Exposition. They were relocated in the Casas Baratas, but then their sons and nephews were evicted again at the end of the century. The need for land hit again those immigrant families; and it doesn’t matter how many generation they had been living in their “welcoming land”.…