Document Type
Honors Thesis
Abstract
Barcelona is one of the largest and most recognized European cities on Spain's Eastern coast. Throughout its history, it has developed a powerful sense of cultural identity through architecture, design, and urban planning. City identity in some modern architectural and urban developments is slowly disintegrating. This is problematic because these historical and cultural aspects help shape the urban and physical environments we live in today. The study focused on Barcelona’s specific planning strategies and design elements to conclude its underlying city identity, which was used as a point of reference for contemporary city development. The results showed that Barcelona’s Cerda plan, modernist architecture, Gothic Quarter historical preservation, and visual symbolism could be used to uncover and enhance the city's identity. Barcelona’s development of city identity v through planning and the built environment helps form its city personality and can be used as a framework or model for future urbanism.
Disciplines
Architecture | Urban, Community and Regional Planning
Publication Date
12-1-2024
Faculty Mentor of Honors Project
Joshua Nason
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Uribe, Angela, "Barcelona as a Blueprint: Integrating Architectural and Urban Identity to Future Urbanism" (2024). 2024 Fall Honors Capstone Projects. 3.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_fall2024/3