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BARCELONA PORT




PORT –CITY: a generic and genetic relationship

Mediterranean ports have had an essential role in their city origin and history.
We could mainly and even generically say that the economical future of these cities significantly depends on the role of their port regarding the global exchange system of goods and of citizen flows.
The Mediterranean port has usually been a key asset in terms of public space because of the interaction between social groups and their roles, service exchanges, both open and representative space.
The general role of these cities will be a consequence of the commercial and economical success of their port, as well as of the quality of their mutual physical disposal and the resulting interaction quality regarding use and sociability.
Progressive mechanization and the extraordinary increase in size and capacity of ports, has often broken the original crucial relationship between port and city.
The Mediterranean Cities Program focuses on the role of public space in the development of our cities.
In the Barcelona 2011 edition, it aims at proposing the creation and recreation of public space between city and port dealing with our present time, both as a crucial reality for the development of the port and as the urban social peak stage of those cities that have originated with it.
The 2011 edition positions itself in the great development of the Barcelona Port which has increased its commercial and economical role but which has, at the same time, weakened the intimate link with the city which, as in other Mediterranean cities, used to characterize it.
The goal is to establish ways that allow the city and the port to come together again, basically working with public space and working in spaces which are shared between city, port and public transport; three factors which are present in the foreseen scenario.

EDUARD BRU

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