Location: Barcelona, Spain
The site is situated in a working-class district. Formerly an industrial textile factory, it was closed as an industrial plant in 2005 and recently re-opened as a social innovation and creativity centre, whereupon it has become an engine of the contemporary culture of the city. It presents an example of participatory governance of a self-managed, multi-purpose and transformed space.
News from the Barcelona Case
Urban heritage in transformation: from industry to property pressures in L’Hospitalet
By María Gabriela Navas Perrone and Margarita Díaz-Andreu, University of Barcelona L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is a town in the eastern part of Greater Barcelona. Walking through the streets of its urban area you can see traces of its past preserved in many buildings. This historical legacy forms part of an urban landscape in which lofty skyscrapers intermingle with public…
Towards a deep cities ethography of Sant Andreu de Palomar
By Jesús Martín Alonso, Ana Pastor Pérez and Margarita Díaz-Andreu For months the pandemic has delayed the beginning of the fieldwork in the area around the Fabra i Coats factory, in the Sant Andreu de Palomar neighbourhood in Barcelona (for our work in L’Hospitalet, see our previous blog). Sant Andreu de Palomar, a village until the end of the…
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L’Hospitalet 3D: Bringing the Museum of L’Hospitalet closer to citizenry through the 3D digitisation of heritage
By Blanca Pascual, MA student and junior research fellow in the JPI Deep Cities project, University of Barcelona One of the case studies of the Deep Cities project is Hospitalet de Llobregat, a city that it is now part of what we could call the Great Barcelona (you can go from one to the other just by crossing over…
A paralell case study in Barcelona
DEEP CITIES: Barcelona’s parallel-local case study: Changes and transformations in the town of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat In Barcelona we are planning to undertake another comparative study case working jointly with the “Museu de l’Hospitalet de Llobregat” (associate partner). It will focus on two fundamental aspects of the CURBATHERI-Deep Cities scientific objectives. Physical, urban and social transformations The first will…
The Barcelona Case
Fabra I Coats Factory and the Sant Andreu de Palomar Neighbourhood: The Sant Andreu district occupies the north and northeast of the so-called “Barcelona Plain” (Pla de Barcelona in Catalan), outside the former walled area of the city and bordered by the River Besòs on its westernmost edge. History of the Sant Andreu District Between the late 10th and…