http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/04/long-shot-of-new-scrapers-on-barcelonas-northern-shore/ anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the sweating hun Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:26:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/04/long-shot-of-new-scrapers-on-barcelonas-northern-shore/#comment-132626 kalebeul » Aerial panorama of Barcelona’s old port in 1962 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:47:05 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/04/long-shot-of-new-scrapers-on-barcelonas-northern-shore/#comment-132626 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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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