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DossierThe social divides of the housing crisis
Barcelona has always been a welcoming and appealing city. It is no wonder that its residents state, in poll after poll, that they would like to continue to do so. And their...
Having witnessed a dismal response to the financial crisis of...
Moving from mere talk to management will be the necessary shift in scale to balance housing supply and demand...
Cities are emerging as key players in the European challenge of building a human-focussed model for housing....
A series of misconceptions and false beliefs surrounding rental housing have been propagated in recent years...
When we talk about a housing cooperative under a cession of use scheme, we are talking about collective...
A combination of low wages and skyrocketing housing prices is increasingly hampering young people’s...
The elderly of the future will reach retirement with less accumulated resources and with much more polarised...
The design of a substantial amount of housing is based on an obsolete concept that organises space according...
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Emma Vilarasau
Two days after Lali Symon premiered at the Romea theatre, as part of the latest Grec Festival, Emma Vilarasau arrives in the theatre’s foyer before locking herself in...
If Barcelona’s streets could speak, they would tell us that they have never seen so many different vehicles using their surface, and that they have never witnessed such rapid and...
There is life after capitalism. This is the view of economist and ecologist Tim Jackson, who asks: “Why aren’t rich countries always happier than poor countries?” He argues that...
The quantity and quality of vegetation is a key factor for achieving a healthy city and combating climate change. Street trees provide shade and help to regulate the temperature...
Spurred on by social media, cancel culture is gaining ground. In its name, works, opinions and even people are cancelled. Its advocates contend that it is a way of giving a voice...
Enrique Vila-Matas
Enrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, 1949) has created a literary universe of his own. His writing captures and universalises, through subjectivity, the troubled air of his time. This...
In the music of their era, every generation has found a vehicle for passing on values, lifestyles and collective aspirations. Lately, some of the most popular music genres have...
The Atles MUHBA d’història de Barcelona [MUHBA Atlas of Barcelona History], published by Barcelona City Council and the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA) – an institution...
All the books by the philosopher Byung-Chul Han call for a return of negativity: instead of excessive transparency, secrecy; instead of an aesthetic of smoothness, roughness;...
Under the banner of artificial intelligence, the world is being reconstructed on the basis of neurons, memories, imagination and thoughts, but also chips, databases,...
He wasn’t allowed salt, but he gave himself special dispensation when he was with his beloved fancy woman. Well, he did so every day, and Anselm was already long enough in the...
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