Valencia’s Wrecking Ball
How a poor community in Valencia fought city development plans — and won.
4 min readNov 19, 2018
The above is a picture I took from the beach of a building in Valencia’s old port area, Cabanyal. Cabanyal is full of ornate houses, about 100 years old, built by the port workers who would live in them. Many have art-nouveau windows and walls decorated with mosaics of colourful tiles.