Barcelona, ES > rural heritage vacancy / rural voids:
the metropolitan area of Barcelona is highly densified and it is just through the most recent urban transformation projects, such as 22@Barcelona project, the Forum/Expo Area, the Super Barrio project, that tried to reinvent itself in a strong dichotomy between the modernist urbanisation model of the Ensanche and the rural suburbanization trends. Against this the Parc Agrari del BAIX LLOBREGAT describes a territory of rural enclaves, one of the oldest and most fertile agricultural lands of Spain (encompassed between 14 municipalities). Created in 1998 to stop urban sprawl advancement, the Parc Agrari today is also subject to processes of rural abandonment resulting in land deprivation, loss in production biodiversity, dwindling of historical villas and old farmsteads (Masias) presence.