[explanation]

‘patience, or lack thereof’:

Creating urban schemes that alter the natural growth of the city.
this blog explores how urban landmarks/landscapes of Barcelona are a large and obvious mix of 'primordial' (natural) and 'futuristic' (synthetic) themes that affect the spatial qualities of the city. 

patience: ‘primordial vs futuristic’ - koolhaus

definition [primordial]: constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
definition [futuristic]: of or pertaining to the future: a futuristic view of the world.

By exploring population densities in relation to urban landscapes that are either natural or synthetic one can begin to understand how Barcelona as a city has been built overtime.

From the generic city, we learn that ‘The Generic City is the post-city being prepared on the site of the ex-city.’- koolhaus

With Koolhaus' thinking, Barcelona clearly can be explained as an interesting mix of the 'post-city' and the 'ex-city' and the relationship between the two is investigated here.