SubjectMobility and transport
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...
Open cityA crooked, open, modest city
Judgements that the cité has ‘failed’ to open up are thus Janus-faced: one side of the coin shows angry populist prejudice, but on the other face can appear...