Coastline Aerial View of Somorrostro, C
ENG 7 COASTLINE Aerial view of Somorrostro, c. 1950. anC. Fons TAF MONTJUÏC aerial view of Montjuïc, 1969. arxiu Huertas SHANTY TOWNS th In the 1870s, the Somorrostro and The presence of shanties on Montjuïc IN 20 -Century Pequín shanty towns sprang up is documented since 1885, when the on the seafront, stretching from La order was given to demolish those BarCelona Barceloneta neighbourhood to the inhabited by quarry workers. In the Besòs River, although it had previously early 20th century, the subdivision been the site of fishermen’s huts. The of municipal and private land for Shantyism in Barcelona was an urban phenomenon, which ramshackle dwellings were built on the purpose of planting vegetable began in the late 19th century and lasted until the late 20th state-owned land, amidst factories, gardens, whose number reached century. In a period of rapid growth in Barcelona, the typical the railway and the sea. The arrival of in excess of two thousand, was a workers for the 1888 Universal Exposi- catalyst in the appearance of new housing solutions for the most disadvantaged from the out- tion is one of the reasons account- shanties. In the 1920s and 30s, the set of industrialisation, such as the division of flats, sub-let ing for the expansion of precarious pace of construction burgeoned with rooms and boarding houses, proved insufficient to offset the housing on the beaches. In the 1920s, the massive influx of workers for major housing shortage, in a city where it was more difficult to find there were four well-established sites, public works owing to the construc- each with approximately one hun- tion of the underground and works accommodation than to find employment.
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