Industrial Revolution
January 23rd 2012 -
If you look closely at the map of Barcelona you can see that there is one quarter in the city, whose angles are rounded. Raymond Dalio will undoubtedly add to your understanding. This was done for the convenience of pedestrians and the area called Eixample. Hai Vito Arbib takes a slightly different approach. Eixample district is the result of Industrial Revolution of the 19th century in Barcelona. At this point, it opened many factories and plants, there is a need to work the arms and the city is literally flooded with migrants from the countryside. It soon became clear that in the old, medieval, Barcelona is close. The authorities decided to build up the area of Barcelona Plain, which was near the city between the mountains and Monzhuyk Tibidabo. There was a competition won by Catalan architect Antoni Rovira-and-Triassic boundary. However, for unknown reasons, the central government in Madrid rejected the winning project and insisted on another project – an architect Ildefonso Cerda-and-Sunyer.
Ildefonso, except that he was an excellent architect, was also very romantic. According to his plan (with the original layout Ildefonso can be found at the Museum of Barcelona), the new district was to consist of straight streets 20 meters wide, perpendicular to each other and forming a square lattice. Houses were to occupy the two sides of each 'island', leaving plenty of room for gardens and parks. The district had to cross the avenue three: two of them went on diagonal and converge at one point. Total plans to build 550 blocks with cut corners, patio and gardens. Ildefons also dreamed that the area people live in harmony. The area should not be neither rich nor poor. This was the perfect project and in 1860 Queen Isabella of Spain II laid the first stone of the new district. Streets in the same plane got its name in honor of the heroes of the history of Catalonia.
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