Abstract La Sagrera is Barcelona attempting something rare at metropolitan scale: keep the rail capacity, bury the barrier, and give the surface back to the city. Beneath the site sits a future high-speed and regional rail hub. Above it, a near 4 km linear park is stitching together neighbourhoods that spent decades on opposite sides of the tracks. History For much of the 20th century, the north-eastern rail approaches carved a hard line through the neighbourhoods of Sant Andreu and Sant Martí . The idea of a major station at La Sagrera dates back decades, but the current mega-project only to…
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