SubjectUrban planning and infrastructures
![Retrat d'Itziar González © Pere Virgili](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/entrevista_itziargonzalez.jpg?itok=_JKMeFJO)
Itziar González
The city seemed to have lost its most genuine promenade for ever, or at least that’s what a lot of people thought. The Km_Zero team won the ideas competition to improve the Rambla with a...
![Voluntaris olímpics en un assaig de la cerimònia d’inauguració dels Jocs de 1992. Foto: AFB](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/amicsxsempre_portada.jpg?itok=lv2cCUKW)
On 1 June 1992, a summer storm rained down on Barcelona and, so too, on the magnetic protagonists of Lluís-Anton Baulenas’s latest novel, Amics per sempre (Friends Forever)....
![Il·lustració © Òscar Julve](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm100_conte_mariusserra_oscarjulve_1100x548.jpg?itok=vJ766mT9)
This former town once had eighty laundries washing the clothes of Barcelona’s wealthy.
![Retrat de Joan Anton Benach © Pere Virgili](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/joanantonbenach_1100x548.jpg?itok=n7Io6lQz)
Joan Anton Benach, the magazine’s founding editor
Joan-Anton Benach (Vilafranca del Penedès, 1936) was the founding editor of the magazine, whose original name was Barcelona. Metròpolis Mediterrània. It was founded in...
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