SubjectUrban planning and infrastructures
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 emergencyEnvisioning emergent futures for bioregions and their cities
Las urbes son un sistema vivo en sí mismo que depende de otros sistemas vivos que no basan su propósito en servir al ser humano. Desde el diseño, y su relación con la...
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...
Tackling climate emergencyBe part of the solution
The fight against climate change is a colossal challenge that calls for rethinking the entire organisation of the city from top to bottom. It is the whole urban...
Els Encants: The art of the autobiographical found object
Encants i miralls de Barcelona is a dream come true for its authors, the photographer Rafael Vargas and the writer Victoria Bermejo. Rarely, and without...
Open city. The challenges of the futureCities that learn from science: the response to a design crisis
COVID-19 has spread faster in dense urban areas, resulting in a higher mortality rate compared to rural areas. By drawing the diagram of the virus’s behaviour and its...
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...
Open city. The challenges of the futureTowards collective vows of luxurious poverty
Rather than thinking of the city as a doomed reality, as a certain catastrophic environmentalism does, we can see it as a yet-to-be fulfilled promise that the...
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