Ciutat Vella, Ciudad Bella

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  • Francisco Peremiquel Lluch

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/qru.9617

Abstract

Ciutat Vella, like many historic centers, has seen the population decline almost as rapidly as the transformation of the urban fabric. Those that remain are being relegated to the less habitable fragments of the fabric. The physical and functional emptying, key to the success of the transformation, has been fragmenting the tissue into parts and isolating them from each other. And the inhabitants, more and more, are passing by, especially tourists. The habitability required in housing and in the street (urban space) must be an essential objective of any urban action. The beauty of Ciutat Vella lies precisely in the possibility of being a livable and inhabited space, healthy, efficient and equitable. Spatial continuity and functional balance are essential factors to maintain the character of the place, its identity and the daily life of those who live and work. The opposite is what in pictorial terms we would call still life.

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