A few weeks ago, Joan Subirats warned us right here about what he called "the territorial tangle of the Generalitat"In short, the article addresses the fact that the Catalan government uses different maps depending on the subject matter and the confusion this creates. The article couldn't be more timely. Last November, at the initiative of the Catalan Geographical Society and the Catalan Society for Territorial Planning, the Institut d'Estudis Catalans hosted four sessions to discuss that the'

The Barcelona Urban Planning Laboratory (LUB) contributed to the Catalan Culture Congress from 1975 to 1977 with an exhibition of maps of Catalan cities and regions, which was called The identity of the Catalan territory: the countiesI haven't found any images of the exhibition, but I did find a collection of plans that several architects drew with great ingenuity, eager to capture the true identity of Catalonia, which has nothing to do with what is built in the United States or Northern Europe. The climate, the topography, and the waterways have shaped the cities we enjoy today. All of this was documented in the magazine. Notebooks on Architecture and Urban PlanningIn two issues dedicated to the identity of the Catalan territory and the regions, in the year I was born, in 1981. Such graphic maps have not been drawn again for 45 years.