Below and Beyond the Map: Stories of Urban Regeneration of the Barcelona Waterfront
Abstract
:1. Introduction
How many maps, in the descriptive or geographical sense, might be needed to deal exhaustively with a given space, to code and decode all its meanings and contents? [1] (p. 85)[1]
2. Barcelona’s Stories of Success
2.1. Urban Regeneration Strategies
2.2. Barcelona’s Model of Olympic Transformation
2.3. Barcelona’s Olympic Waterfront
3. Other Stories to Be Told: Displaced, Destroyed, and Erased
3.1. Displaced by Capital’s Seafront Conquest
3.2. The Battle for the Preservation of Industrial Heritage
3.3. Reclaiming Collective Memory
4. Unveiling Layers: Insights and Perspectives for Shaping the Future
4.1. Massey’s Spaces as a Simultaneity of Stories So Far
4.2. The Power/Agency of Maps
4.3. Layers
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Benach, N.; Font-Casaseca, N. Below and Beyond the Map: Stories of Urban Regeneration of the Barcelona Waterfront. Land 2025, 14, 953. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14050953
Benach N, Font-Casaseca N. Below and Beyond the Map: Stories of Urban Regeneration of the Barcelona Waterfront. Land. 2025; 14(5):953. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14050953
Chicago/Turabian StyleBenach, Núria, and Núria Font-Casaseca. 2025. "Below and Beyond the Map: Stories of Urban Regeneration of the Barcelona Waterfront" Land 14, no. 5: 953. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14050953
APA StyleBenach, N., & Font-Casaseca, N. (2025). Below and Beyond the Map: Stories of Urban Regeneration of the Barcelona Waterfront. Land, 14(5), 953. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14050953