BARCELONA, LISBON AND FORESTIER: URBAN PARK CITY-PARK

In 1915 he arrived in Barcelona forestry engineer, designer of parks and French urbanist Jean Claude-Nicolas Forestier, called to proceed with the landscaping of the Montjuic hill, part of a planned International Exhibition of Electrical Industries as well as developing several other projects for the city, the most important of which was the Pedralbes park. Twelve years later, Forestier was called to Lisbon with the task of preparing a general plan of improvements of the city and, more specifically, to seek a solution to the extension of Avenida da Liberdade and the redesign of the park that crowned The Parque Eduardo VII. In between times, the model city of Forestier had matured and can be considered its outline proposal for Lisbon as the most complete of its city-park idea expression, an idea that will influence the approach of architects like Le Corbusier.