CategoryUrban visions
![© Ajuntament de Barcelona / Martí Petit](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/visions_saraberbel_portada_1100x548.jpg?itok=jZ5PdTh1)
When the pandemic broke out, the municipal government administration became mindful of the complexity of the emergency and took on a two-fold challenge: keep all services running and...
![Vista parcial del litoral de Barcelona. © Vicente Zambrano González Vista parcial del litoral de Barcelona. © Vicente Zambrano González](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/visions_portada_1100x548.jpg?itok=WM2HQuB7)
Barcelona is a global city immersed in urban transformation processes linked to economic competitiveness, social equality, environmental sustainability and public health, factors already...
![Imatge de la proposta Caminar des del centre de b67 Palomeras Arquitectes i Cierto Estudio.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/01_visions_eixample_portada_1100.jpg?itok=fbGVCDhL)
The Cerdà Plan for Barcelona’s Eixample has witnessed multiple interventions since the outset of its execution. This variability, typical of plans or architectures designed with flexible...
![Moment de la inauguració del parapet de les executades i executats a Barcelona 1939-1952. © Kathrin Golda-Pongratz](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/01_visions_memoria_portada_1100.jpg?itok=iyD6B2HU)
A monument to pay tribute to the refugees who make it to Barcelona; graffiti that alludes to the most neglected neighbourhoods; a plaque laid in the pavement that reminds us that this is...
![Plaques solars als terrats de Barcelona © Ajuntament de Barcelona / Equip d’audiovisuals](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/visions_plaques_0.jpg?itok=geq5Q5Hp)
The public company Barcelona Energia is gaining momentum in the new map of alternative operators with support, competitive rates and energy awareness, although it is still far from...
![Vista general de la sortida de Barcelona per la Meridiana, amb el barri de Vallbona a la dreta del pont, i Ciutat Meridiana i Torre Baró a l’esquerra.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/visions_1.1.jpg?itok=-QCgHWib)
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 canal and the old Ribes...
![© Paola de Grenet](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/01_visions_cvella_01.jpg?itok=bC49x9GA)
Since 1992, different Land Use Plans have been implemented in Ciutat Vella to regulate economic activities and urban planning licences. The most recent one, approved in 2017, places an...
![El passatge de Madoz l'any 1980, amb el bar Vivancos a l’esquerra, actualment el restaurant Les Quinze Nits. © José Antonio Sancho](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/visions_1.jpg?itok=lmaSGPuM)
Few places in Barcelona have been as dynamic and as changing, as central and at the same time as hidden, as the Plaça Reial. It started out as a brothel, to later become a convent and,...
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