Another city for another life
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Dec 10, 2015
Keywords:
Cities
activism
social movements
architecture practice
Can Batlló
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Abstract
This article presents a research on the social movements that emerged in Spain and some European cities in 2011, and describes how public space has become an essential element to claim back the right to the city, as Lefebvre proposed a few decades ago, and more recently David Harvey. In describing this re-appropriation of the city by the citizens, it also allows discussion of the current role of the architect. What are the challenges for the profession to participate actively in this dynamic and complex context The participatory process that took place in Barcelona in order to give new uses to the abandoned complex of Can Batlló can give some responses to this question.
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Baraona Pohl, E. (2015). Another city for another life. Materia Arquitectura, (12), 91–93. https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i12.83
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CASTRO, M., MARTÍ-COSTA, M., GUAL, J. M., & MARTÍNEZ MORENO, R. (s. f.). Can Batlló: construir comunidades en las ruinas de la crisis. Retrieved October 5, 2015, from Academia.edu:
www.academia.edu/2416216/CAN_BATLL%C3%93_Construir_comunidades_en_las_ruinas_de_la_crisis
COMITÉ INVISIBLE. (2009). La insurrección que viene. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain: Melusina.
CONSTANT. (2009). La nueva Babilonia. Barcelona, Spain: Gustavo Gili.
HARVEY, D. (2012). Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. London, England: Verso.
LEFEBVRE, H. (1968). Le droit à la ville. Paris, France: Anthropos.
MCQUIRE, S. (2008). The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space. London, England: Sage.
SASSEN, S. (2014, July 30). The Language of Expulsion. Retrieved October 20, 2015, from
Truth-Out:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25235-the-language-of-expulsion