The hidden dimension of the great city: urban underground Barcelona

Authors

  • Ángel Martín Ramos
  • Rosina Vinyes i Ballbé

Keywords:

Urban underground, big contemporary city, hidden urban morphology

Abstract

The increasing use of the subsoil is a reality normally assumed in the
everyday life of big cities. Checking the entity that this phenomenon has reached
in Barcelona through a new city map allows perceiving the transcendental impact
of that hidden part of the city and its relevance in relation to collective issues.
Important conflicts in certain characteristics of the city’s form, and changes in the
use of space can be observed in the analysis of the case of Barcelona, a modern
Mediterranean city of an ancient origin. Going ahead from the recently defended
doctoral thesis on Barcelona (Vinyes i Ballbé, 2015) the paper shows how, once
having incorporated the underground space map into the daily management of the
city, the identification of the different processes related can be a very useful way
for a proper and enriching progress of the city in the future.

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Published

2017-09-28

How to Cite

Martín Ramos, Ángel, & Vinyes i Ballbé, R. (2017). The hidden dimension of the great city: urban underground Barcelona. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 49(193), 437–452. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76571

Issue

Vol. XLIX, núm. 193 (2017)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2017 Ángel Martín Ramos, Rosina Vinyes i Ballbé

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