SubjectEcology and environment
The generational gapWhen stability seems utopian
In recent decades, job insecurity has taken root in society and affects younger generations in particular. The delay in gaining access to decent employment postpones...
New vulnerabilitiesVulnerable beings, violated lives
Western industrial culture has accomplished major achievements in recent centuries, such as finding the cure to many once-fatal diseases or the sharp rise in life...
The hundredth monkey effect
Similar: we see the little hands and little fingers (oh, the defining opposable thumb) and they seem so human. Then we look them in the eyes and the familiarity is...
Digital cityThe ecosystem of knowledge as a common asset
Urban environments are characterised by the opportunities they offer to think of a political culture where shared knowledge assets can be managed jointly by different...
The underground district
Under the Eixample there are the same streets as on the surface, though much narrower, and they reflect the life outside and that of the houses above.
The pride of the hillside
I suspect that Jane Bowles, Pere Calders, Nelly Sachs, Joan Maragall, Federico García Lorca, Josep Vicenç Foix and Mercè Rodoreda once lived together in Vallvidrera....
Black eyes, forked tongue
I wish they’d all go away. That this damned Operation Escape would end. That the neighbourhood would be emptied of those who live and who don’t live in Pedralbes.
“Powerful investors have taken over the ecological agenda”
Isabelle Anguelovski, researcher in political ecology
The creation of city parks, green belts and ecological corridors in urban neighbourhoods attracts upmarket estate agencies and new residents with more purchasing...
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