SubjectHousing
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. Two people are talking. One seems to tell the other about the house of his dreams: one bigger than the one he has.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/rosa-guillermo01-ilustracions_1100x548_10.jpg?itok=OqpXDDFk)
Economic inequality is conducive to individualism. Living in unequal societies makes us more concerned about our social position; the greater the difference, the further the distance...
![Illustration © Eva Vázquez. A house split into four as if it were a cake and, in the middle, grows a tree full of vultures.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/jaime-palomera02-ilustracions_1100x548_13.jpg?itok=l8fo8QYw)
A decade after the worst real estate bubble in history burst, access to housing is still one of the major social problems. And it is because states operate as another cog in the...
![Retrat de Joan Margarit © Camilla de Maffei](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista-joan-margarit-retrat-1100.jpg?itok=GzofycbO)
Joan Margarit
Joan Margarit is travelling through old age with a complete published oeuvre that grows as he writes new poems and books such as Per tenir casa cal guanyar la guerra [To Have a...
![Il·lustració © Ana Yael Zareceansky. Quatre columnes amb capitells d'estil jònic de diferents alçades amb escales entre la part superior d'uns i altres. Sobre les columnes i en les escales diverses persones es miren, saluden o caminen.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/1100x548_eva_garcia_chueca.png?itok=SCWh7gEO)
Far from everyday use, the current consumption of urban space is eliminating the political functions and collective identity functions traditionals in public space. The...
![Una dona penja una pancarta al balcó de casa seva en la qual es llegeix: banca estafa engaña © Pere Virgili](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entransit-obertura-balco-1100.jpg?itok=2_Btv-FU)
“All housing is political” asserted David Madden on his recent visit to Barcelona to present his book In Defense of Housing, co-authored with Peter Marcuse. Madden believes that...
![SHANGHAI, CHINA SHANGHAI, CHINA](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/gettyimages-536193608_3.jpg?itok=PBjdSJm9)
Much of the urban design applied around the world follows the technocratic model of the Athens Charter. This is a homogenous, one-size-fits-all model that provides simple solutions to...
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Although people know what they need and want, yet architecture spins into navel-gazing and drifts farther and farther from the possibility of substantive contribution to the communities...
![Cover of the book Les arts aplicades a Barcelona by Francesc Fontbona](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/arts_aplicades.png?itok=ksGnOtcS)
Forged iron, ceramics, wood, glass, pavement, coats of arms, clocks, bells… Art historian Francesc Fontbona edited Les arts aplicades a Barcelona (The Applied Arts in Barcelona...
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