SubjectUrban planning and infrastructures
Open cityHow much urban democracy can global capitalism stand?
Three decades of neoliberal deregulation from the wild side of the market have impeded and disfigured opportunities for urban democracy and have seized the city from...
Open city‘Ligatios’ and ‘obligatios’: ties in an open city
The space we inhabit, the environment that surrounds us, shapes our behaviour and everything about us: our character, our ethos. That’s what ethics is about...
Sant Pau, part of our history and part of our soul
“If the hospital were taken away, it’d change Barcelona’s soul.” The first time I read those words, written by Doctor Josep Cornudella about the Hospital de la Santa...
Building city and citizenship
Barcelona Metròpolis takes on a new era with a new format, a new design and a new digital space. The new Barcelona Metròpolis wants to be a tool for...
The underground district
Under the Eixample there are the same streets as on the surface, though much narrower, and they reflect the life outside and that of the houses above.
On the gypsy tarmac of La Perona
Esteve Lucerón recovers the last few years of the gypsy Perona, when the neighbourhood had been living amidst conflict and exclusion for quite some time, and does so...
El Poblenou, from grey to blue
These days, not even the neighbourhood’s own mother would recognize it. Still, it’s worth saying that the change has been for the better.
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