SubjectMobility and transport
Tackling climate emergencyLiving in proximity, the 15-minute city
The year 2020 has been a pivotal year in which two crises have been intertwined: the climate and the health emergencies, with the COVID-19 pandemic. At the crossroads...
Tackling climate emergencyPublic transport, a clean and efficient mobility alternative
People need to move to interact with one another, to go to work, to study or to shop, to enjoy leisure time or to socialise and be with family and friends. In...
Tackling climate emergencyThe Amazon effect: The Seattle lessons
The city of Seattle changed the day Amazon decided to set up shop there. For better and for worse. It changed conventional retailing, logistics, the environment, and...
Tackling climate emergencyOvertaking the old mobility. The car, from host to guest
Cities are currently the scene of the foremost social, environmental and economic challenge posed by sustainable mobility. It is time to apply new formulae, such as...
The city after the pandemicGlobal risks, local challenges. Cities, beyond the coronavirus
One of the attractions of city life is proximity,...
Building the metropolisMobility, a complex structural framework
The creation of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area marked a positive yet insufficient change in the governance of metropolitan mobility. We are facing a complex...
Building the metropolisThe ring roads, yesterday and today
From the beginning, the ring roads defined a new urban reality that confirmed Barcelona’s change of scale, its transformation from a city...
“I don’t believe in the politicians that say: ‘I do what the people want’”
Sergio Fajardo
Not affiliated with any of the traditional parties, he became mayor of Medellín in 2004 leading a citizen movement and completely renewed a city that had entered a...
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