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This guide (Barcelona 1979-2012. Contemporary Architecture City Guide) begins, intentionally, with the year that the first municipalelections were held (after the Franco dictatorship time). It thusspans the period of democratic government in the city from 1979 to the present day. Many transformations have occurred during this time, inparticular in the urban and social realms. The links created betweenthe city's various neighbourhoods, the opening of new squares and,above all, the infrastructure put in place for the Olympic Gameshosted in 1992 laid the foundations for a new urban model, which hasbeen praised by experts around the globe in the last 15 years.This guide, with its lavish, up-to-date visual information, features a wide-ranging series of works, from modest urban improvement plans tothe ambitious projects undertaken by world-renowned architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Arata Isozaki, Norman Foster, Toyo Ito and JeanNouvel.This pocket guide in three languages (English, Spanish, Catalan) is an up-to-date, detailed digest of the evolution of the architecture andurban development of Barcelona from the city’s origins to the presentday.
