The vision Barcelona has a 15-20 year plan, this is not a theoretical structure plan but a vision for the future. It was ideas that were needed, not money, explained Barnada-Lopez. The city s interest was in creating good design in the public realm. It is through linking these projects that unique places are created. In Barcelona public space is not just open space.
Spaces are for using and the street is where the Barcelona citizens live.
Santa Maria de Mar. It is as if the Arndale Centre was remodelled so that Manchester United could attend church. Five hundred years of canyon like darkness had made these lower floors undesirable. We were to see later that this decanting process does not please everybody. Overall the city will be provided with a series of magnets each with their own character and providing for local needs. By making clear the city s intentions to incoming developers and through a financial regime that is truly locally determined.