Praça, percurso e ícone. Uma proposta de transformação urbana para Vilanova i la Geltrú

Abstract

This essay deals with a thematic research about the intervention in the existing city, we witness a contemporary city with diffuse and dispersed forms, as well as the fact that we belong to a society increasingly plural and diverse , where people reappraises the understand how the place is done today and how the place reinvents itself. square, the route and the icon as topics of interest and fundamental in the contemporary city, which generate, structure and attribute identity and formThereby, the project exercise emerges as interpretative potential, developer of research and theoretical development, to reinforce the importance of the project as a triggering motor for problems and worries, in a theoretical and practical method of simultaneous How reinvent the place? How to bridge the gap between what exists and what is propose? How establish of icon can be associated to the place? what should or should not be done today, but therefore propose the subject as a catalyst