SubjectHousing
The Eixample is a Process
The Cerdà Plan for Barcelona’s Eixample has witnessed multiple interventions since the outset of its execution. This variability, typical of plans or architectures...
Open city. The challenges of the futureThe city is bare: nature as necessity
The lockdown triggered by the pandemic has revealed the shortcomings of urban living as we knew it to us. The rural world now offers tranquillity and contact with...
Where the city earns all its names
In Linde, a photographic project by Myriam Meloni and Arnau Bach, we see the Barcelona behind the ring roads. The Barcelona of the Rec Comtal irrigation...
The city after the pandemicThe new city emerging: a public health perspective
The spring of 2020 will be remembered as the spring of Covid-19, a time that has forced us to stop, to take preventive measures and to live alone in a connected world...
The Land Use Plan for Ciutat Vella: Protecting community life
Since 1992, different Land Use Plans have been implemented in Ciutat Vella to regulate economic activities and urban planning licences. The most recent one, approved...
The city after the pandemicUrban planning and architecture for a new normality
It is at times of crisis that today’s deficiencies and challenges become increasingly apparent. Fortunately, future priorities may also come out stronger. The Covid-...
The generational gapThe policies sought by the new generations
The design of the current welfare state and the social and economic reality facing young people today suggest that their demands will be more of a qualitative (a...
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...
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