42 10 581 https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/15/130/DSC_0165.JPG 4c0da8feb2ea131d6ef2887450fd8bf9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buddhist Holy Land Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derek F. Maher Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Panel 4: The Buddha dies at Kuśinagar Subject The topic of the resource Śrāvastī: Jetavana Grove: Nava Jetavana Vihara Description An account of the resource The Buddha, having reached the advanced age of 80 years, slowly traveled towards Kuśinagar where he had foreseen he would die. He was given tainted food in Pawa, took his final bath in a small river halfway to Kuśinagar, and then made his way to the town itself. He gave one final sermon there and passed away, achieving his final parinirvāṇa. Mourners, both human and celestial, gather around his body. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derek F. Maher Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sravasti/DA Mahabodhi Stills/DSC_0165.JPG Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 5/29/2016 https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/15/131/DSC_0167.JPG d072be27fff5359a9c840f3999f6ae1d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buddhist Holy Land Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derek F. Maher Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Panel 5: The Buddha meets Anāthapiṇḍika for the first time Subject The topic of the resource Śrāvastī: Jetavana Grove: Nava Jetavana Vihara Description An account of the resource After narrating the four most renowned episodes in the Buddha's life, the fifth panel turns to the narrative moments that relate more specifically to Śrāvastī and Jetavana Grove. In this panel, the Buddha encounters Anāthapiṇḍika at Rājagṛha for the first time. He invited the Buddha to visit him in Śrāvastī. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derek F. 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Title A name given to the resource Panel 8: Subject The topic of the resource Śrāvastī: Jetavana Grove: Nava Jetavana Vihara Description An account of the resource Sravasti: Mahabodhi Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derek F. Maher Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sravasti/DA Mahabodhi Stills/DSC_0175.JPG Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 5/29/2016 https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/15/132/DSC_0171.JPG bfd2c9364b8605915a104588d4b997e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Buddhist Holy Land Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derek F. Maher Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Panels 6-7: The donation of Jeta's Grove Subject The topic of the resource Śrāvastī: Jetavana Grove: Nava Jetavana Vihara Description An account of the resource When Anāthapiṇḍika met the Buddha in Rājagṛha, he invited him to visit Śrāvastī. Once he returned home, he sought a suitable piece of land on which to build a welcoming retreat for the Buddha, eventually settling on some land owned by Prince Jeta. The left side of the panel shows the part of the story in which Prince Jeta suggest what he considers to be an impossible price, the number of gold coins that would be needed to cover the entire piece of land. Anāthapiṇḍika's people busily begin laying out the gold coins. On the right side of the panel, Anāthapiṇḍika welcomes the Buddha to the Jeta's Grove, which he then donates to the Buddhist community. The Buddha came to regard it as his favorite place to stay. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Derek F. Maher Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Sravasti/DA Mahabodhi Stills/DSC_0171.JPG Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 5/29/2016 https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/627/Picture3.png df84ac889ec5bdb3d0c7ea0ea5cb1ec8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pantaloons https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/542/OR_Parc_Diagonal_Mar_-_panoramio_-_sito.rm_[8].jpg 7a052cf2753e5304de8a6df22e3c91c4 https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/542/Audio_Recording_1_AshleyWeingartz.m4a 59844b3f3002fbc0728e4a4b7e02405d https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/542/Parc_de_Diagonal_Mar_-_Ashley_Weingartz.pdf 5749defa4deb47b1391941c9bb310d8a PDF Text Text Parc de Diagonal Mar When countries begin to consider hosting large athletic events such as the Olympics, much discussion begins on the features of the given cities being considered to host and what features need to be improved. Leading up to the 1992 Olympics, city officials in Barcelona decided that a large part of their preparation would be centered around adding more green space to the city. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the parks and gardens that were dreamed up in preparation for the 1992 Olympics have become a central part of the Barcelonan way of life. One of the most notable additions of parks to Barcelona since the twenty-first century began has been the Parc de Diagonal Mar. “The city […] has set its sights on the next major urban spectacle to follow in the tradition of the 1888 and 1929 World’s Fairs and the Olympics: a 2004 World Forum for World Cultures to be located in the eastern reaches of the city towards the Besós river” (McNeill 2002: 248). This is the central part of the new extension of the city. Its location is significant in that it is newly developed in an area that was first declared an important park district by the planner Ildefons Cerdà. Now it connects the Mediterranean Sea into an enormous “green lung” that is meant to be “substantial and sustainable” (Kent 2002: 238-39). Today, it seems that the focus on gardens is finally coming to an organized fruition in Barcelona. The people of Barcelona are invested in the parks and the parks conform to the structure of the city. Though parks in Barcelona have gone through many trials and errors, they are finally becoming the center of urban life the way so many have envisioned. “These revitalization projects create the possibility of bringing such obsolete urban spaces back into the city’s consciousness and geographical boundaries, encouraging a rediscovery of the city’s topography” (Sánchez 2016: 301). Had Barcelona not hosted the 1992 Olympics, many of these improvements that greatly enriched the quality of life for the citizens of Barcelona may not have been made (Kent 2002: 230). � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Digital Barcelona Subject The topic of the resource Sights around Barcelona Description An account of the resource The items (text documents, audio, video) used in the collection were created by the students from Fall 2016 HONS 2011.003: Barcelona: An Urban Cultural history class taught by Dr. Benjamin Fraser. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Benjamin Fraser Irina Swain Camille Kresz Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Digital Barcelona Date Created Date of creation of the resource. January 2017 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Irina Swain Camille Kresz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Parc de Diagonal Mar Subject The topic of the resource Parc de Diagonal Mar Description An account of the resource The Parc de Diagonal Mar is located in Barcelona, Spain. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ashley Weingartz, Benjamin Fraser Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Camille Kresz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/06/2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Type The nature or genre of the resource Document, Still Image, Sound Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 02/06/2017 Ashley Weingartz Barcelona Parc de Diagonal Mar Spain https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/527/OR_Font_de_la_Cascada_-_Parc_de_la_Ciutadella.jpg ba4cdb01c76b2cc19be7b2b78d809e2c https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/527/Parc_de_la_Ciutadella_-_Ariel_Fricke.pdf f60137129eb13c175fd4ba9e8c6fbd17 PDF Text Text Parc de la Ciutadella The connection between places and scientific discoveries has been explored by historians of science. The attention in this research has been shifted away from “‘traditional’ sites of knowledge such as laboratories, observatories and collections” and toward “sites such as […] hospitals, churches, princely courts, pubs, and coffee house[s]… and many more” (Hochadel and Nieto-Galan 2016: 7). It was found that the location of the site and of the discovery mattered. Visitors to such sites determine the “social meaning” of the “urban space” by using it as a place for “everyday activities” rather than making these discoveries in distant laboratories (Sánchez 2002: 296). The urban environment of Barcelona “shaped the practices […] related to science, technology and medicine” but these practices also “changed the urban environment” (Hochadel and Nieto-Galan 2016: 7). This two-way dynamic relationship between practice and environment helps shape the city and its ideas. In Barcelona there are several specific locations that have “scientific practices” associated with “a particular quarter” or “in a specific urban place” (Hochadel and Nieto-Galan 2016: 7). The significance of these places exists in the minds of society. For example, it matters “where the amusement parks were located, where the Barcelonese visited the museums […], and where the sick sought medical advice and treatments” (Hochadel and Nieto-Galan 2016: 7). These places show “the ways in which scientific knowledge was transferred” (Hochadel and Nieto-Galan 2016: 7). The Board of Natural Sciences, or The Junta, had these ideas in mind when they created Parc de la Ciutadella. Parc de la Ciutadella was created to be “a space for the popularization of natural history” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 25). The Parc was created with the idea that “Public parks […] were supposed to provide a social remedy” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 27). The “remedy” was the �idea of “social control of the working classes” that they planned to provide in the Parc, “by means of ‘civilized’ entertainment and recreation” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 27). The other agenda behind the panning of the park was to educate its visitors and to popularize the ideas of science. The plan for the Parc was approved in 1872. It was to be located “just north of the city centre” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 25) at the former site of a military fort. The first building in the park was “the enormous Cascada in the northern corner of the Parc” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 29). An artificial lake was also created on the Parc grounds to enhance the natural experience. A major addition came in 1882 when the “the Museu Martorell was inaugurated in the Parc” and became the “first public museum in Barcelona” that was “devoted to natural history and archeology” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 30). The idea for creating a zoo in the Parc de la Ciutadella was a natural one, since exotic animals gifted to the government were already stored there. The inauguration of the zoo took place in 1892. Originally the zoo was owned by Lluís Martí-Codolar and managed by Francesc Darder. They collected “roughly 160 animals” but then “financial difficulties led Martí-Codolar to sell it to the city of Barcelona in the spring of 1892” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 32). Operating costs of the facility were covered by the sale of the animals and of their products. The Parc zoo was small when taken in comparison with other European zoos but was still majorly successful. Due to the success of the zoo, the Junta “advocated the development of the scientific facilities of the Parc” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 34). The idea behind these new developments was to be able to provide the city with a way to combat urban poverty. To do this they tried to show the public the ways they could capitalize on natural resources. The Junta inaugurated an aquarium in 1908. To expand this project, the Fish Laboratory was added in 1909. The �laboratory contained a breeding program and was conceived with the plan “to repopulate the rivers and lakes of Catalonia” (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 38). Municipalities could take advantage of this resource and obtain fish and fish eggs for their rivers and lakes. The many resources and attractions of the Parc led to its popularization. This popularization led to the spread of the ideas and the scientific topics it sought to promote. The public then incorporated these ideas into society but still maintained the constant association with the Parc and its ideas. � https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/527/Parc_de_la_Ciutadella_-_Andrew_Lee.pdf 2f723bea5330bde75f41e97f1d64ac38 PDF Text Text Parc de la Ciutadella The Parc de la Ciutadella, or Citadel Park, was created by Catholic naturalists to conserve, protect, and popularize natural history for the public. The park contains a life-size mammoth statue that would dwarf most men and women. This is meant to represent the “fragmentary mammoth fossils found in Catalonia since 1883,” to educate those who visited the monument, and most of all, to impress (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 25). The mammoth statue was not the only attraction that the park had to impress visitors. An impressive collection of massive rocks was gathered, each representing both the donations of a “connoisseur” and “the richness and utility of the geological resources” available to the Catalan (Hochadel and Valls 2016: 37). Additional attractions were added to the park over time, including a Fish Laboratory and Zoological Garden. These served two purposes: education and economic growth. Nature could be utilized to teach visitors while simultaneously producing revenue for the Catalan who wanted to preserve their history and identity. The Parc de la Ciutadella also contained the first public museum, Museu Martorell. This reflects a change in the “landscape of Barcelona’s scientific institutions” at the turn of the century (Hochadel and Nieto-Galan 2016: 5). Architecture also evolved greatly with the park’s inception. The Arc de Triomf by Josep Vilaseca “inspired successive generations of Barcelona’s administrators to consider grand events as a means to transform the city in their own image” (Kent 2002: 225). The park’s focus remained on revenue and impressing visitors with attractions rather than their own culture. As a result, while the Parc de la Ciutadella succeeded in bringing history to the people, it may not have succeeded in preserving Catalan culture to the fullest. � https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/527/Lee_Andrew_Parc_de_la_Ciutadella.aiff 07d66dd3f72d28c95711b10c6fd0f6af Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Digital Barcelona Subject The topic of the resource Sights around Barcelona Description An account of the resource The items (text documents, audio, video) used in the collection were created by the students from Fall 2016 HONS 2011.003: Barcelona: An Urban Cultural history class taught by Dr. Benjamin Fraser. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Benjamin Fraser Irina Swain Camille Kresz Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Digital Barcelona Date Created Date of creation of the resource. January 2017 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Irina Swain Camille Kresz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Parc de la Ciutadella Subject The topic of the resource Parc de la Ciutadella Description An account of the resource The Parc de la Ciutadella, or Citadel Park, was created to conserve, protect, and popularize natural history for the public. It is located in Barcelona, Spain. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ariel Fricke, Andrew Lee, Benjamin Fraser Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Camille Kresz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/01/2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Type The nature or genre of the resource Document, Still Image, Sound Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 02/01/2017 Andrew Lee Ariel Fricke Barcelona Parc de la Ciutadella Spain https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/543/OR_Creueta_del_Coll1.jpg 092694b257d3cb16465bf7cdacf26860 https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/543/Parc_de_la_Creueta_del_Coll_-_Rachel_Harris.pdf 9b9f1f0e11c482a418006f1ec162e590 PDF Text Text Parc de la Creuta del Coll Parks serve as a reprieve from the hustle and bustle of life. This fact is articulated in the statement that “whenever rapid industrialization occurs; the imagination of a people is altered. Typically, a pastoral ideal reemerges” (Sobrer 2002: 217). Grasping onto this concept, Barcelona created many parks to recreate the ‘mood’ of their overcrowded city. Signed into construction by Josep Martorell and David Mackay, the Parc de La Creueta del Coll began the process of landscaping, design, and planning. Devoid of vast and lust green spaces, the park was saturated with statues. The Parc de La Creueta del Coll is situated within a quarry in the Collserola range. While the terrain is difficult to work and many people were skeptical about how a park can be created from this location, Martorell and David Mackay succeeded. Their success mainly derived from their collaboration with artists. For example, centered in the middle of the park was a cement statue by the artist Eduardo Chillida. Born in the Basque country, he was known for his colossal public installations. It is not a coincidence that he would be sought out since it is evident through his works that he has talent with spatial concerns. With this location, it is important for the sculpture to complement the park—not take away from it. Unlike other parks during this time, it was an ‘architect’s park’. Chillida has been quoted as saying, “my work is a rebellion against gravity” (from an interview with the artist published in Sculpture Magazine). This statement is especially true in regards to the statue in Parc de La Creueta del Coll. Without his defiance of gravity, the park would lack a certain level of awe. His contribution was a sculpture crafted from heavy cement. Using four incredible hefty cables, the sculpture remains in perpetual stagnation as it is suspended over the quarry’s pool. “[T]he Parc de la Creueta del Coll is an artistic tour de force on 16.4 hectares of rugged terrain” (Kent 2002: 233). It gives an impression of stone-cold beauty. �In juxtaposition to architecture parks, there are simple green spaces that function as public spectacles as well. These green spaces permeate a different aura than the Parc de la Creueta del Coll. While the park mentioned is revered for its innovative use of human-made objects and highlights the beauty that can be created solely by humankind, the green parks serve as a reminder of how citizens can be shepherds of nature. In summary, one emphasizes humankind’s domination of materials; the other emphasizes our harmony with the earth. Green space can be considered as monotonous due the repetitive use of bland trees. Especially during the 1980s, these types of parks were “defined by rectilinear plantings of a limited range of palm trees” (Kent 2002: 235). A couple parks notorious for their simplicity are in a close range to the Vila Olímpica. While these parks may not be as strikingly beautiful as the Parc de la Creueta del Coll, they were designed to need little maintenance, and they serve that purpose well, since the potted palms do not have a tendency to overgrow; however, a downfall to primary green parks is the fact that the monolithic impression on citizens reduces the experience of the natural environment, rather than enhance it. In particular, the Parc de la Creueta del Coll was created due to the evolution of Spain from a rural economy to a heavily industrialized nation. When the location of the 1992 Olympics was chosen to be Barcelona, the city’s engineers marveled at how to transform it into something to be envied. They had the onerous task of creating buildings in addition to the added struggle of needing to make sure their ideas addressed the issues of transportation, housing, and public spaces. A complete metamorphosis was needed. To accomplish this, many energy plants were razed to make room for the Parc de la Creueta del Coll. Since it is obvious that “paying attention to how the senses frame our experience of cities invites us to capture a largely ignored aspect of city life that is as significant as their physical structure, namely their ‘character’ or ‘mood’” (Hochadel and Nieto-Galen 2016: 5), the city strove to repossess the beauty that was lost by �previous haphazard urban planning. In conclusion, both the architectural design of parks and green space can function as a bridge between the cityscape and nature. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Digital Barcelona Subject The topic of the resource Sights around Barcelona Description An account of the resource The items (text documents, audio, video) used in the collection were created by the students from Fall 2016 HONS 2011.003: Barcelona: An Urban Cultural history class taught by Dr. Benjamin Fraser. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Benjamin Fraser Irina Swain Camille Kresz Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Digital Barcelona Date Created Date of creation of the resource. January 2017 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Irina Swain Camille Kresz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Parc de la Creuta del Coll Subject The topic of the resource Parc de la Creuta del Coll Description An account of the resource The Parc de la Creuta del Coll is located in Barcelona, Spain. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rachel Harris, Benjamin Fraser Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Camille Kresz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/06/2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Type The nature or genre of the resource Document, Still Image Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 02/06/2017 Barcelona Parc de la Creuta del Coll Rachel Harris Spain https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/571/OR_gaudi-1160379_960_720.jpg 809eafa7f7cfbdfd230964e339310239 https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/571/Vyas_Jayati_-_Park_Guell.pdf 6866bca8c90d132ff503a464dac73cdd PDF Text Text Park Güell Antoni Gaudí and Eusebi Güell began construction of Park Güell, a vast garden suburb above the city in Barri de la Salut in Gràcia in June 1900. “For fourteen years, Güell and Gaudi collaborated on what had begun as a garden suburb for sixty families set on 37 acres of rugged terrain on the Collserola range” (Kent 2002: 226). Its purpose was to lure buyers to an English-style high-income subdivision (Sobrer 2002: 214). Each of the sixty families was to have an individual house. No wall could be higher than 80 centimeters and no hedges or other obstructions were permitted. “Wildness in nature was celebrated and protected: Oaks, carob trees, Spanish broom, rosemary, and other indigenous plants were preserved” (Kent 2002: 226). Gaudí created the garden with a series of references to Paradise, through allusions to the sacred mountain of Monserrat and the grottoes and shrines of traditional Catalonia that he incorporated into the site's layout” (Kent 2002: 226). The road and path system in Park Güell was to be an interlocking network more than a grid, in contrast to Cerdá’s design for the Eixample, the district beside Park Güell (Hall 1997). Although the commercial project eventually failed, it did not inhibit Gaudí from constructing a massive stone Golgatha at the park summit. Now, there is a brilliantly tiled bench that wraps around the central theater of the park, a Doric-style hypostyle hall that provides space for civic functions and celebration of local festivities honoring Catalan culture. � https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/571/Vyas_Jayati_Audio_-_Park_Guell.m4a c387a60cddd95512066a77ba11a006d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Digital Barcelona Subject The topic of the resource Sights around Barcelona Description An account of the resource The items (text documents, audio, video) used in the collection were created by the students from Fall 2016 HONS 2011.003: Barcelona: An Urban Cultural history class taught by Dr. Benjamin Fraser. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Benjamin Fraser Irina Swain Camille Kresz Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Digital Barcelona Date Created Date of creation of the resource. January 2017 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Irina Swain Camille Kresz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Parc Güell Subject The topic of the resource Parc Güell Description An account of the resource Parc Güell was planned by Antoni Gaudí and Eusebi Güell and is located in Barcelona, Spain Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jayati Vyas, Benjamin Fraser Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Camille Kresz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/27/2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Type The nature or genre of the resource Document, Still Image, Sound Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 02/27/2017 Barcelona Jayati Vyas Parc Güell Spain https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/544/OR_Placa_de_catalunya.jpg 7f326860aa7d6c691d4518c178dd9e59 https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/544/Placa_de_Catalunya_Samuel_Alvarado.pdf c9c6aa78803747a1e891c2681006894c PDF Text Text Plaça de Catalunya Plaça de Catalunya serves an interesting purpose as the point of intersection between the medieval districts of Barcelona and the modernized expansion known as the Eixample. A popular place for tourists, Plaça Catalunya makes two appearances in the worldrenowned book No Word From Gurb by Barcelonan author Eduardo Mendoza. The main character visits the site to “sit and think on a bench,” noting the swarms of tourists and pigeons that congregate there. In his deconstruction of No Word From Gurb, Jeffrey Oxford describes “both the traffic situation and the massive population of pigeons” as markers of a globalizing city (2004: 81; also Mendoza 1990: 89). The square features several artistic sculptures intended to illustrate the city’s rich history while also highlighting the artistic community that has flourished in Barcelona. The Monument to Francesc Macià found in the plaza is an ode to the Catalan history and one of its many heroes. Macià served as president of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1931 to 1933, also founding the pro-independent party of Catalunya and serving as president of its Republican Left. The monument, constructed out of travertine marble, concrete, iron and bronze, includes imagery of an upside staircase. Although Catalunya has been repeatedly bombarded by negative forces intending to demolish its infrastructure, the people have managed to uphold their identity and come out on top. This staircase symbolizes the uphill battle faced by the Catalan people, who have had to rebuild their upturned society one step at a time. The staircase is set upon a solid concrete base, a reflection of the sturdiness and resilience that has become synonymous with Catalunya. � https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/20/544/OR_Alvarado_Plaza_Catalunya.mp4 3ba71827dc0a581d34e2b4e807987c21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Digital Barcelona Subject The topic of the resource Sights around Barcelona Description An account of the resource The items (text documents, audio, video) used in the collection were created by the students from Fall 2016 HONS 2011.003: Barcelona: An Urban Cultural history class taught by Dr. Benjamin Fraser. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Benjamin Fraser Irina Swain Camille Kresz Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Digital Barcelona Date Created Date of creation of the resource. January 2017 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Irina Swain Camille Kresz Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Plaça de Catalunya Subject The topic of the resource Plaça de Catalunya Description An account of the resource The Plaça de Catalunya is located in Barcelona, Spain. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Samuel Alvarado, Benjamin Fraser Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Camille Kresz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02/06/2017 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Language A language of the resource English, Spanish Type The nature or genre of the resource Document, Still Image Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 02/06/2017 Barcelona Plaça de Catalunya Samuel Alvarado Spain