| DECONSTRUCTING BARCELONA |
| Turó de la Rovira d'Horta Guinardó |
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Since 30 years the government plans to demolish more than 20 houses of classic architecture only to create a public park nobody needs. There is no real argument for a public park far away from residential or working area and anyway, this little accumulation of houses in the middle of Barcelona is already surrounded by a small forest. Looking at the buildings it needs no argumentation that any destruction would be a shame. Probably this is one of the architectural most interesting parts of Barcelona. Some of the houses are in a bad state though (what doesn't make them less pitoresc) but this bases in the fact that it is not allowed by law to construct on this terrain. A little renovation would make this place to a most expensive residential area. Still the city designers plan total destruction. Speculation seams not to be the reason but some kind of futuristic attitude that has no space for the past but understands a city as a computer simulation, without no crumb of dirt and without no inhabitants. A symbol of the modernity. The people have to pay. Web
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