Barcelona's Fake Gothic Quarter

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0:00 Montage
0:16 Introduction
0:26 History of the Gothic Quarter
1:31 Lies of the Gothic Quarter
3:39 Is this authentic?

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This video covers barcelona and its historic city centre called the gothic quarter. This is constructed on a medieval street pattern and dates back to the roman settlement which was located within the modern day city. However, the history of this is not as straightforward as you might think. There is a more recent history to its construction than first looks would provide.

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A full time planner, Jordan Reeve specialises in creating videos about the built environment to tell its stories. The topics cover historical development of cities alongside psychogeography style walks, this aims to uncover the urban environment as well as pose questions about the space and place in which we live, work and play. He lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne and attempts to showcase the modern face of a former industrial city, which is still finding its way in regeneration.

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[-Eckhart]

I'm strongly in favour of a lead style for conservation areas using historic materials and morphologies. I think it's perfectly ok to build in neogothic style as here in Barcelona and millions of visitors a year are surely the proof of the pudding. In Germany, neogothic (or neoclassical or neo anything else) gets criticised for being "pastiche" and uncontemporary but I view this as architects' snobbishness and/or egotism. In England the emphasis on individual buildings with only exceptional reference to the ensemble results in the sort of snaggle toothed development you get in Newcastle.