Cuando el puerto era ciudad: estudio de la relación ciudad-puerto antiguo

Abstract

The relationship of the port with the city has changed over time: in the beginning, the development of the city was closely related to the development of the port and vice versa. As a result of specialization and industrialization that relationship disappears because port activities were taken outside the city, leaving the original port abandoned. The recovery of the old harbor is a matter of interest because it is a potential element for urban development, mainly due to its cultural and identity value. How to reintegrate the port and city keeping those values? This research focuses on the case of Barcelona and proposes that the port-city relationship has had varying moments of closeness and distance that have influenced its urban structure and, that this structure has urban and cultural values.