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Taking the Totalitarian City for a Walk

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Bogdan Ilie, Dan Achim

Barcelona’s La Rambla is split in about three places. Half of the medieval centre disappears. Cerdà’s extension loses, as percent, fewer surfaces, but it’s enough to have no kind of continuity and stop working as an urban system. Right behind this mad axis and the concrete curtains, fragments of blocks from the famous grid or of the historic fabric are left.

 

The conversion of a former military port in St. Petersburg

90  New Holland, St. Petersburg: The City within the City
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Text: Cosmin Caciuc