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ANALYSIS OF A URBAN PLAN (BARCELONA)



In first place we are going to define what a city is: a city is a type of landscape with anthropic elements that consist in  a group of streets and buildings governed by a town hall with a large population. The city we are going to analyze is located in the north east of Spain. This city has mediteranean coasts and it is near the Pirinees. It´s named Barcelona, there are many theories about the name but the most accurate is that Barcelona´s name evolved in the middle ages during the Julio Cesar roman colony. Barcelona is one of the most turism cities of Europe with lots of  shops, museums, monuments and hotels.

In the other hand, the historic Center call also (Ciudad Vella) has a layout with narrow and winding streets. This part of the city is surrounded with walls built by Romans (s. I a. C. ). The wall has 81 towers that were use to defend from the enemies. Outside the walls there are many neighborhoods such as Gracia, Sant Marti, San Andreu, San Montjuïc, Les Corts...
I think the functions of this part of the city are residencial and comercial, I also think that this part of the city has lots of trafic problems,  air pollution and noisy pollution. The main buildings are the Cathedral, King square and many gotic churches, museums and squares.

In the third place, the expansion zone has change to a orthogonal layout, this layout look like a grid in which streets usually run at right angles to each other. It is very usual in Romans and Greeks. This part of the city has some parts of the wall but it isn´t surrounded at all. The main monuments, of this part of the city are La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí Square, Antoni Puigvert Garden, Príncipe de girona Garden . I think the functions of the expansion zone are residencial, commercial, cultural and industrial. I also think that the main problems are traffic, air pollution and building restoration.

Finally, the outskirts of the city has a orthogonal layout, it also has lost of residencial buildings and neighborhoods such as El carmelo, La teixonera, Vilapicina, Horta may be this parts of the city were villages in the past. The functions of the outskirts are resindencial and industrial and the main problems are air pollution from the industries areas, the waste of time moving from one to another and transport.



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