SubjectEconomy and business
The 2008 crisis was devastating for culture. Cutbacks left many projects without funding and public services had to reduce or freeze hiring. Precarious employment in the sector...
![Persones mirant uns quadres en una exposició © Vicente Zambrano](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06_intro_cultura_exposicio.jpg?itok=MP-XToJ5)
Cultural workers live in a lamentable state of job insecurity, as we can see from the debate that opens this Culture Folder. The arts actually help us to recognise ourselves in our...
![Il·lustració d'un megàfon](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/andreu_monterde.png?itok=hhDpCKzW)
The adjective 'smart' is very much in vogue. It represents the idea that cities can be more intelligent and efficient thanks to technology, and the data that they and their inhabitants...
![Il·lustració d'una fila de persones agafant cada una amb les mans el cap de qui té davant](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/ekaitz_cancela.png?itok=Mm7-JWs1)
Urban environments are characterised by the opportunities they offer to think of a political culture where shared knowledge assets can be managed jointly by different sized groups with...
![Il·lustració d'una mà posant una papereta en una urna que és un candau](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/francesca_bria.png?itok=dC9vr2q8)
Cities and citizens, not companies, ought to own the data produced in cities and should be able to use said data to improve public services and put their policies into action. Data...
![Personas alrededor de una parada de libros en la calle](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/drets_autor_llibertat_expressio_bm109_1100x548.jpg?itok=-L--1aY-)
The European Union has tabled a new directive on copyright to harmonize different aspects of the European digital market.
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The large global metropolis embodies the spirit of our era, while small and medium-sized deindustrialized cities are sceptical about the future, with nostalgia for a past they identify...
![Rertrat de Caterina Biscari](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista_01_1100_1.jpg?itok=65ePyv5P)
Caterina Biscari
Alba is the most important synchrotron light laboratory in the Mediterranean and south-west Europe. However, it is a great unknown for Barcelona society in general.
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