I always like your photo threads. I remember I once wrongly criticized a Paris one you did because you showed some bored old people staring through their open windows, which I had found excessively gritty, rather sad and disturbing. But that's the way it is sometimes for real. And you've got to show the truth indeed.
As for Barcelona, I find they did some serious effort in modernizing their place in a recent past. There's almost some sort of Japanese vibe to some of your pictures, like this.
Uh that's still something to see, huh. What I'm talking about is visible in the skyline.
That's not so easy for traditionally Latin European cities established for centuries and usually well preserved, where immobilism and nostalgia for a supposedly glorious past widely took over the average minds. I can tell as a Parisian, as the historic core over here is somewhat tyrannical. And I think Italy suffers from the same disease too. The rivalry with Madrid in Spain might've motivated them somehow. Obviously, if only the European economy as a whole and the Spanish in particular were doing better, it would be changing much more. For the better when you like modernism.
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