Irina Swain Omeka MetsExport Plugin The software used to generate this document is called Omeka MetsExport, which operates as a plugin for Omeka. Documentation can be found at http://github/MetsExport/ Cerdanyola del Vallès Cerdanyola del Vallès Cerdanyola del Vallès is located near Barcelona, Spain. Amy Musgrave, BenjaminFraser Camille Kresz 02/06/2017 English, Spanish Document, Still Image, Sound Cerdanyola del Vallès In No Word From Gurb, by Eduardo Mendoza the narrator begins by telling the reader that he was able to land his spaceship safely. It becomes very clear that he and his companion, Gurb, are not from Earth. They show clear signs of being extraterrestrials. It is explained that they have landed in an area that the locals call “Sardanyola” (1990: 5). This area is more commonly known now as Cerdanyola del Vallès. It is a town that is located on the north side of the Collserola ridge, a mountain range that is in between the rivers Besòs and Llobregat as a part of the Catalan Coastal Range. Cerdanyola del Vallès is the home to the main campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a public university that is famously known for fostering research. The first human with whom the narrator in No Word From Gurb communicates is a tenured professor from UAB. According to Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan, Barcelona has always fostered scientific and technological advances (Hochadel and Nieto-Galan 2016: 1). The Autonomous University of Barcelona is a twenty-first-century example of Barcelona’s continuing contributions to the scientific fields. As for relaxing in Cerdanyola del Vallès, there is always Synchtron Park. It is a business park, but it also contains many green spaces. It is a modern attempt at the famous nineteenth-century urban renewal of Barcelona. Oliver Hochadel and Laura Valls describe the urban renewal as an attempt to bring greenery into the modern world and incorporate it into people’s lives (2016: 26). This is exactly what has been done in Synchtron Park; while it is a place where people work, the interweaving of green spaces allows the people to reconnect with nature in their everyday lives.  Item changed by user 26 at 2017-02-06 17:50:21.Created manually by user