SubjectCitizenship and inclusion
Irish writer Colm Tóibín remembers arriving in Barcelona in 1975 and reflects on a deep, enduring connection with streets he knows by heart. Though he lived in the city for only...
One of the most striking changes in recent years has been the dramatic acceleration of our lives. This shift began when mobility technology compressed space, and it has now reached a new...
Barcelona was the first city in Spain to establish a time policy department and now leads the way in Europe...
A reduction in working hours is not merely a labour demand; it is an urban planning tool that ought to play a...
The advancement of a civilisation can be measured by its ability to free up time. Today, however, precarity...
Time associated with work – whether paid or unpaid – is a central aspect of how people organise their lives...
In our lives, we have to juggle two different kinds of time: the productive system’s clock time and the time...
In a celebrated lecture delivered in Madrid in 1930, the eminent economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that...
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