22@: The Urban and Economic Renewal of Poblenou

Before the 22@ project started in 2004, Poblenou was an isolated area due to the lack of infraestructures and connexions. However, with the years it developed more and more: first of all, in 1992 thanks to the Olympic Games, the area of "Villa Olimpica" was developed and more connexions were built in the neighborhood; then, in 1997 the Diagonal Avenue was opened and the factories were changed into houses for the workers and, finally in 2004 the 22@ started and with it all the renueval of Besos and the construction of the Forum de les Cultures and the depuration plant which is under the Forum. 

So, what's 22@project and why it is working on Poblenou??

The 22@ project is a new way of renewal and an answer to an economic renewal too. Thanks to it, the industrial economy  developes into a new economy. It consist of an Urbanistic plan which prupose is to achieve sostenibility in an urban level (with a mixture of work and life) and in an economic level (with new economy and new needs). That new economy of wich I'm talking everytime is a developement of a mixt of uses, that means, a change from a 100% privat investment to a 70% of privat and 30% of public investment. 

Moreover, there are some elements that describes the 22@ perfectly: 

• FLEXIBILITY: Which is one of the machines of transformation and which afects the time, the shapes and the highs. 
• INDULTRIAL PATRIMONY
• @ACTIVITIES (ICT)
• @ FACILITIES : Which are for citizens and for companies too. 
• SOCIAL DIVELINGS
• PUBLIC SPACES (Green Zones and bigger Streets)
• ADVANCED INFRAESTRUCTURES: Systems and networks. 

Finally, Poblenou was chose for its industrial center, its low density and functional obsolence and for its centrality and accesibility. 

Who told them about you? - My little daughter.

- Who told them about you? - asked Wiston.

- My little daughter. - said Parsons.

Your own daughter, just a little and innocent girl who you have seen growing up and who you have love so much has betray you. Can you immagine it?
It's shocking and impressive but in those times it was something ordinary. And that's what had happened to Mrs. Parsons in Chapter 9 of 1984. He, who has always supported the Party, who since he was a child was part of the Spies and who raised his children as a Party children; now is accused of thoughtcriminal by his own daughter!

This quotation is one of lots of examples that George Orwell give us to explain us how society was in those times. There was people who was educated so much to serve the party that end betraying their family. But, It was not only your family. Your neighbours, yours collagues or yours comrades. You weren't safe anywhere and with anyone. You always had to take care of what you say or eventhough, what you dream. Everybody wanted to show their respect and their admiration to Big brother and to the Party, and the best way of doing that was giving to them traitors.

It's cruel, but it was like this. Kids were educated and prepared to serf the party and that means they would have to identify traitors. Even thier friends or their parents.  

The Past Must Be Changed All the Time Because The party Can Never Make a Mistake

"The Past Must Be Changed All the Time Because The party Can Never Make a Mistake" is a sentence we can find in chapter number eight that talks about the Doublethink. It's written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the enemy number one of The Party, and it talks about the way that The Party manipulates the information to have always the reason.

The quotation says it very clearly: the past must be changed to make sure that people never knows that the Party was wrong sometime. It's a way of making people think that the Party will never do something amiss, that they are perfect and that they never make mistakes. Moreover, we can see in this sentence how easy was for The Party to control all that information. How they, thanks to the Ministry of Truth, can erase any type of information that contradicts them. How can they change the meaning of the words to make people belive false information. In addition, this sentence also shows the selfishness of The Party. They must always be right. The must always say the correct and the last thing and, if someone says the otehr way, he should be trated as a traitor.


So, as a conclusion, I would like to say that it's always the same. The Party controls the whole information that moves around he country and, as a consequence, it controls people's thoughts.

WAR IS PEACE

"War is Peace" is one of the parts that forms the official slogan of the Party. This sentence, in addition to " Freedom is Slavery!" and " Ignorance is Strengh", is written with capital lettres on the walls of the Minitrue, the Minitry of Truth that George Orwells describes in the firts chapter of 1984. 


"War is Peace" represents one of the principal ideas of the Party: war it's the only way to solve problems and thats why you (refering to people) must belive and participate in it. The point, is that it was used as a propaganda to recruit soldiers for the army and to make civil people belive that war is good and that it's the correct way to show to the whole world the power of the country, and of course the power and the influence of The Party. 
Althougth it's difficult to relate peace with war, the Party set up all the slogan to cause that impression on people. And, despite of not having any sense, many people thougth that and showed their support to the war and, obviously, to the Party. 




Finally, I asked myself: How could it be possible to think that war brings peace? How can anybody belive that the best way of solving problems is war? War is never good. It never brings anything more than deaths and misery, It can not be realated with PEACE. They are totally opposit!