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Cultural Democracy
If culture is to help us to create a community, the consumer of art must also be a participant and not a mere spectator. Participation enables us to broaden our point...
Culture, a tool for reconciling antagonism
Against the strength of the market, which spins people outside the city, culture can be a tool that helps them to overcome marginalities and puts them on equal...
Who does the reversal of a public land designation affect? The cases of Satalia and Font de la Guatlla
Classed as green areas by the General Metropolitan Plan, the small neighbourhoods of Satalia and Font de la Guatlla have long lived under the threat of expropriation...
Tourism, between wealth and residents’ complaints
Barcelona receives more than 12 million visitors per year for both business and pleasure. The city is the location of one out of every three tourism companies in...
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 metropolisIn search of a metropolitan ‘demos’
Far from everyday use, the current consumption of urban space is eliminating the political functions and collective identity functions traditionals...
Building the metropolisPublic policies against urban segregation
The trend towards the residential segregation of social groups is materialising, to varying degrees, in every town and city, ours too. The matter of socio-...
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