Analyzing Barca Midterm

Urban palimpsest

A city made up of overlapping historical, social, and cultural layers. Older layers are not fully erased; they remain visible and shape the present city.

Fieldwork

Producing knowledge through direct engagement with a place, environment, or community through observation, documentation, investigation, and interpretation.

Ethnography

Qualitative research that studies everyday social and cultural life through observation, conversations, participation, and field notes.

Phenomenology

explores lived experience and how people make sense of it

Case study

provides an in-depth investigation of a particular case, such as a person, group, organization, place, or event

Narrative inquiry

explores how people construct and communicate meaning through stories and personal narratives

Experimental research

tests cause-and-effect relationships by manipulating variables under controlled conditions

Correlational research

examines relationships between variables without manipulating them

Survey research

collects standardized data from a population, often through questionnaires

Romanization

The gradual military, economic, political, and cultural incorporation of local populations into Roman rule and life.

Barcino

Roman Barcelona, founded around 15-10 BC under Augustus.

Cardo maximus

The main north-south street of a Roman city.

Decumanus maximus

The main east-west street of a Roman city.

Feudalism

A system in which political and economic power was based on land, military control, and peasants' obligations to lords.

Drassanes Reials

Royal shipyards that built and maintained the galleys supporting Barcelona's maritime power.

Atlantic shift

The late-15th-century shift of Spanish imperial attention and trade away from the Mediterranean toward the Atlantic and the Americas.

Decretos de Nueva Planta

Bourbon decrees after 1714 that abolished Catalan laws and self-governing institutions and imposed central control.

Ciutadella

The massive fortress built after 1714 to control Barcelona's population; it required demolition of part of La Ribera.

Barceloneta

A planned, geometric 18th-century neighborhood built partly to house people displaced by the Ciutadella's construction.