SubjectUrban planning and infrastructures
Bruce Katz. Networked cities and urban leadership in the face of global challenges
Bruce Katz defines himself as an interdisciplinary urban planner, and is a great advocate of cities’ problem-solving capacity in the face of today’s global challenges...
Cooling shelters: an urban response to the global crisis
Cities are engaged in the fight against climate change. Promoting public transport and renewable energies, urban transformation and reducing emissions from combustion...
‘Most architects are not the elite or complicit in property speculation’
Carme Pinós
Carme Pinós is a truly trail-blazing architect. In 1991, she founded her own practice in a field where women were the exception, and after countless obstacles and...
Health beyond Covid-19
Covid-19 has posed a huge challenge for all public health services and has had an unequal impact on the population of Barcelona, depending on age, neighbourhood and...
The city of careFrom the superblock to the Vila Veïna: towards a social city model
The Vila Veïna municipal initiative was created with a view to building environments where care takes place as part of a community, rather than individually. Vila...
The city of careCities that care: transforming space to prioritise life
Prioritising the sustainability of life involves providing the material and immaterial conditions that support care. In the urban planning sphere, this means breaking...
The housing crisis
Being able to access decent housing is a basic right recognised in both the Spanish Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy. In Barcelona, the historic lack of...
The cities within the city
The Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, from its outset, has thought and rethought the city from all kinds of perspectives. In 2021, the CCCB wished to go...
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