SubjectUrban planning and infrastructures
![Shared bicycles run by a private operator, in a corner of the Plaça de la Sagrada Família square. © Albert Armengol Shared bicycles run by a private operator, in a corner of the Plaça de la Sagrada Família square. © Albert Armengol](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_visionsurbanes_01_1100x548.jpg?itok=gbvEI_xj)
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...
![Interior of Atlas Muhba Interior of Atlas Muhba](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/interior_llibre_muhba.jpg?itok=lieZxLlk)
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...
![La Clariana de Les Glòries](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/foto_general.jpg?itok=4bYXncm6)
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...
![Illustration © Cinta Fosch Illustration © Cinta Fosch](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_illustracions_sumari_1100x548.jpg?itok=tCZF6JVM)
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...
![Illustration © Cinta Fosch Illustration © Cinta Fosch](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_illustracions_zaidamuxi_1100x548.jpg?itok=mBbcmIjn)
The design of a substantial amount of housing is based on an obsolete concept that organises space according...
![Illustration © Cinta Fosch Illustration © Cinta Fosch](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_illustracions_montiel_1100x548.jpg?itok=_s-nWfw3)
Moving from mere talk to management will be the necessary shift in scale to balance housing supply and demand...
![Illustration © Cinta Fosch Illustration © Cinta Fosch](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_128_illustracions_carmetrilla_1100x548_1.jpg?itok=mcwC03_O)
Having witnessed a dismal response to the financial crisis of...
![View of the Besòs riverbed, from the Molinet bridge. © Imatges Barcelona / Àlex Losada](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/bm_127_visionsurbanes.jpg?itok=1jbtHUpA)
As the well-known song by Raimon goes, “in my country rain doesn’t know how to rain: it either rains too little or it rains too much; if it rains too little, it’s a drought; if...
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