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The high-technology answer seemed to lie in the creation of new manufacturing sectors, which—by virtue of high growth and rising productivity—might restore the promise of high-wage, stable employment. Such sectors were emerging in Silicon Valley and other centers that increasingly looked to a combination of electronics and information as their stock in trade. But also taking place were profound changes in the nature of manufactur- ing; these changes would be fatal to the cities’ hopes for new sectors. Some of the most remarkable developments in the structure of manufacturing over the past two centuries occurred in the past two decades. The obvious ones are technological—the creation of entirely. | Constructing a City The Cerda Plan for the Extension of Barcelona Author s Eduardo Aibar and Wiebe E. Bijker Source Science Technology Human Values Vol. 22 No. 1 Winter 1997 pp. 3-30 Published by Sage Publications Inc. Stable URL http stable 689964 Accessed 08 01 2009 14 58 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR s Terms and Conditions of Use available at http page info about policies . JSTOR s Terms and Conditions of Use provides in part that unless you have obtained prior permission you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http action showPublisher publisherCode sage. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR please contact support@. http Sage Publications Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize preserve and extend access to Science Technology Human Values. Constructing a City The Cerdà Plan for the Extension of Barcelona Eduardo Aibar University of Barcelona Wiebe E. Bijker University of Maastricht This article applies a constructivist perspective to the analysis of a town-planning innovation. The so-called Cerdà Plan for the extension of Barcelona was launched in the 1860s and gave this city one of its most characteristic present features. For different reasons it can be considered an .