Long shot of new scrapers on Barcelona’s northern shore

Taken towards the end of this walk, it demonstrates some of the impact of the speculative development programmed by Barcelona’s eco-warrior council over the past five years.

If I could do rather more advanced wheelies on my Batavus Tripper I would post aerial shots of the dramatic shifts in the shoreline as a consequence of the same people’s obsession with building yacht marinas.

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Comments

1. kalebeul » Aerial panorama of Barcelona’s old port in 1962 sez:
   17 November 2007 at 11:47 AM

   [...] Another view of Barcelona, this time the centrefold from the magazine Triunfo in September 1962. Other photos on pp35-53, of which I enjoyed this one, a sanitised reminder that we are witnessing the final phase in Barcelona’s transition from a small town surrounded by villages and fields and, latterly, monstrous slums, to a great city; this one of the Monumental bullring; and this one of the Nou Camp. Triunfo has been subsequently remarketed, as iks so often the case, as an anti-Franquista mag, when it is in fact nothing more than a glossy symbol of a flourishing and complacent bourgeoisie, reborn with the help of some smart Opus Dei midwifery. [...]

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