A balanced improvement in accessibility as a resource

Facing the accumulation of detached housing plots at Barcelona Metropolitan Region

Authors

  • Joan Florit Femenias DUOT-UPC
  • Ángel Martín Ramos
  • Ignasi Rincón Riquelme

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/siiu.10098

Abstract

During the second half of the 20th century, in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, single-family housing plots proliferated. Without being officially planned, such developments came to take up large portions of land in geographically unfavourable places, only poorly connected to minor towns in the metropolitan area. Despite their inefficiencies and difficulties, these areas expanded all around the suburbs and have now become a substantial part of the metropolis. There is no doubt that the complexity of the situation cannot be tackled with easy answers or common solutions. On the contrary, it seems that various methods and actions at different scales must be applied. Along these lines, we put forward a method that could prove to be effective: a balanced improvement in accessibility as a resource for these areas, with different types of solutions adapted to each particular case.

Keywords: Single-family housing plots, Barcelona metropolitan growth, big cities, road networks

Author Biographies

Joan Florit Femenias, DUOT-UPC

Doctor arquitecto por la UPC. Profesor asociado de Urbanística DUOT-UPC.

Ángel Martín Ramos

Doctor arquitecto. Catedrático de Urbanística DUOT-UPC.

Ignasi Rincón Riquelme

Arquitecto. Máster en investigación urbanística DUOT-UPC.

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Published

2022-01-19

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Section

SIIU2021_BARCELONA