Albert Ferrer Jiménez

Reading a Lost City: Urban Traces, Water and the Rubricata Hypothesis (Rubricata Series · Essay 2)

Reading a Lost City develops an indicative reconstruction of a possible Roman urban settlement in central Sant Feliu de Llobregat. Through a comparative reading of urban traces, water infrastructure and archaeological remains, it proposes a plan, examines a possible entrance near...

Beneath Sant Feliu: Water, Roads and the Case for a Lost Roman City near Barcelona (Rubricata Series · Essay 1)

Beneath Sant Feliu brings together archaeological remains, historical cartography, ancient roads, water infrastructure and urban form to explore the case for a lost Roman city near Barcelona. Rather than treating the known sites as isolated finds, it examines how they may have fu...

Rubricata and the River: Sant Feliu and a New Reading of Roman Barcelona (Rubricata Series · Essay 3)

Rubricata and the River develops the case for identifying the Roman settlement proposed at Sant Feliu de Llobregat with Rubricata, the city mentioned by Ptolemy. It brings together ancient geographical sources, historical cartography, river landscapes, roads and water infrastruct...

Where Government Meets the Citizen: Proximity, responsibility and the power to act

An essay on the architecture of public administration and the gap between the visible responsibility of local government and its practical power to act. It examines inter-institutional bureaucracy, grant-based funding, supramunicipal assistance, urban and metropolitan planning, a...