SubjectTerritory
![Obrers de la construcció que treballen en un edifici en obres destinat a habitatge públic al carrer de Viladomat, 142. © Ajuntament de Barcelona / Martí Petit](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bcndades_portada_baixa_obrers-de-la-construccio_1100.jpg?itok=1R_BPEFV)
Being able to access decent housing is a basic right recognised in both the Spanish Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy. In Barcelona, the historic lack of public housing...
![Fabra i Coats: Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona © Eva Parey](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/03_tendencies_portada_fabraicoats_1100.jpg?itok=riWypURM)
The circuit of public amenities dedicated to promoting the visual arts in Barcelona has widened and has been given renewed impetus with generational changes in their management. Santa...
![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...
![Exposició Urban Nature al CCCB](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/urbannature_1100x548.jpg?itok=R2Pm1g18)
The Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, from its outset, has thought and rethought the city from all kinds of perspectives. In 2021, the CCCB wished to go one step further and...
![Il·lustració © Riki Blanco](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/pag_38_dolores_raigon_verde_1100x548.jpg?itok=n_Y2BB2R)
Agri-food systems underpinned by the principles of ecological farming continue to grow far and wide across the planet, and 186 countries already implement regulated organic...
![Il·lustració © Riki Blanco](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/pag_32_gustavo_duch_1100x548.jpg?itok=AwV83I36)
The growth of cities is paving over nature, encroaching on farmland and stoning agriculture. If, as numerous studies show, urbanisation processes are becoming less and less...
![L'avinguda Meridiana, entre el carrer de Felip II i la plaça de la Tolerància. © Vicente Zambrano González](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/pag86-avinguda-meridiana-tram-entre-el-car.jpg?itok=5qqE-N7y)
Barcelona tops the list of European cities with the highest car density, 5,844 per km2. Although the traffic is twice that of Madrid and five times that of Berlin or Amsterdam...
![Il·lustració © Nicolás Aznárez](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/relat_portada_1100.jpg?itok=F9IYNnmx)
Gone with the wind. It was blowing fiercely there. It was a wind that didn’t come from any cardinal point, it fell perpendicularly from the sky and smashed you against the ground. On...
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