THE INFORMAL CITY. SHANTYISM IN THE BARCELONA OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Shantyism in Barcelona: an urban phenomenon
Informal city versus planned city
Shantyism in Barcelona, an urban phenomenon which unfolded over the course
of the 20th century, created an informal city beside the planned city of the old
cores, the Eixample, the social housing estates and other forms of peripheral
growth. This informal city extended across Montjuïc hill and along the seafront,
occupying both the hills and some interstitial spaces on the periphery of the
Eixample.
The complete eradication of shantyism in the years preceding the Barcelona
Summer Olympics has left no mark on the territory, but its story, which lives
on in the memory of many one-time shanty-dwellers, is still full of lights and
shadows.
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