El planejament metropolità de la Barcelona predemocràtica: plans, protagonistes i referents teòrics (1939-1976)

• Autores: Gustavo Pires de Andrade Neto
• Directores de la Tesis: Ferran Sagarra i Trias (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2015
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Manuel de Torres Capell (presid.), Joan Moreno Sanz (secret.), Francesc Manuel Muñoz Ramírez (voc.)
• Materias:
  • Ciencias tecnológicas
    • Tecnología de la construcción
      • Planificación urbana
    • Planificación urbana
  • Ciencias de las artes y las letras
    • Arquitectura
      • Urbanismo
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
• Resumen

  • The topic of this thesis is Barcelona's pre-democratic metropolitan plans, protagonists and their theoretical references. The metropolitan planning of the Franco period is usually interpreted as an attempt at technical modernization in a politically conservative context. However, the ambiguity between the technical and the political contribution shifted throughout time, as a result of the regime's differences in technical and political visions, the imposition of a changing reality, the relative autonomy of the technicians' role and the epistemological changes in the planning discipline. The first section of the thesis focuses on the Regional Plan of 1953 from autarky time, a precedent of metropolitan planning, which was co-authored by the architects Pedro Bidagor, Director of Urban Planning in Madrid, and Josep Soteras, a former member of GATCPAC at the Republican era. This section problematizes the dialectic between the internalization of some foreign references, such as the Anglo-Saxon Regional Planning, and the moral rhetoric of the Falange's ideology. The Regional Plan introduced innovations that would be expressed in the Land Act of 1956. The second section of the thesis discusses the conceptual renewal of urban planning that sought its epistemological legitimacy in science during the sixties, expressed in the Barcelona's Metropolitan Master Plan of 1966. Architects Manuel Ribas Piera, Xavier Subias and engineer Albert Serratosa led the multidisciplinary team in charge of 1966 plan. The sixties were years of profound urban changes arising from the developmentalist state policy, which consolidated the metropolitan phenomenon In Barcelona in which the mayor Porcioles set the stage of his "Great Barcelona" plan. The third and final section of the thesis problematizes the urban planning at the late Franco era and the transition to democracy, taking as its focus the Metropolitan General Plan - MGP, outcome of the accumulation of experiences over twenty years of metropolitan planning and the two Barcelona's previous metropolitan plans. The MGP was the result of the work of a technocracy ideologically progressive and the political pressure from the Left parties and neighborhood associations. Subsequently, the aim of social emancipation through the urban planning would often be reduced by possibilism in democracy. This thesis is concerned with the different elements involved in the Barcelona's metropolitan planning at the Franco era, the changes of urban paradigm, and the success of some pretty extraordinary characters, open to the world and knowledge that acted brilliantly in a bleak reality.