Massimo Paolini shares the following article titled 'Barcelona: Destructions of Use.' It presents the latest projects and debates surrounding the future of the city.
In a hypothetical manual for planning the destruction of a city, the instructions would be as follows: accelerate mass tourism, intensify economic dependence on tourism, trigger a significant increase in housing prices, increase air and automobile traffic, and promote the construction of private-initiative "product-buildings" that concentrate tourists in central areas of the city.
In a hypothetical manual to accelerate the ongoing destruction of the planetary ecosystem, the instructions might be as follows: increase greenhouse gas emissions, ramp up energy production, intensify the use of fossil fuels, accelerate the plunder of the materials the planet offers, amplify the destruction of nature, and increase the amount of waste.
