As regards new writing about Barcelona I think one of the tendencies is to avoid a kind of picturesque or anthropological view of the city, which is what has happened a little bit in books which have concentrated as Barcelona as a setting.

BBC: Sense of the City: Barcelona

And another cleric, William Gilpin, the father of the Picturesque movement, drew up a list of pedantic instructions on how to view the landscape.

ECONOMIST: A green mythology