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Compare and contrast: Eixample, Barcelona and Atelier Olschinsky illustrations.
I was in Barcelona in March 2011, and as clearly awesome as its architecture (Gaudi!) and urban design (pedestrianised boulevards!) was, I did not grok the fact that it looked like *this* - an irregular rounded-corners sci-fi - not Bladerunner, less neon - but some endless hacked jerryrigged construction going on and on and on in some low-tech megalopolis sprawl…
The Eixample photo was via P D Smith, incidentally, who is consistently a source of fascinating urban things, btw. Follow him here, there, and preorder his new book City (May 2012)
Posted on December 5, 2011 with 7 notes ()
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