SubjectUrban planning and infrastructures
![Virtual image of the Hermitage Barcelona Museum design.© Hermitage Barcelona Museum.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/visions_3_hermitage.jpg?itok=vwxvCXYa)
In recent years, the possibility of a Hermitage Museum franchise has been considered in a location in the Port of Barcelona, to permanently install part of the Russian collection in our...
![Llibre: Barcelona pròxima, Andreu Ulied](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_16.jpg?itok=UaPsijs8)
Barcelona pròxima, besides bestowing high praise on technocracy, is an urban planning manual, an intellectual biography, a compendium of urban history, a philosophical essay and a...
![Llibre: La ciutat interrompuda, Julia Guillamon](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_15.jpg?itok=LIwtJlle)
La ciutat interrompuda made its appearance in 2001 with this summary: “From the tortured city of the 1970s to the fun city of postmodernity, to the tourist city. A chronicle of...
![Exposició: Víctor Papanek. La política del disseny, DHUB](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/cultura_14.jpg?itok=wgHye2u6)
Viennese designer and activist Victor Papanek was one of the twentieth century’s most influential harbingers of social activism and sustainability in design. The exhibition Victor...
![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...
![Il·lustració © Ana Yael Zareceansky. Dues dones a l'interior d'un laberint fet de vegetació. Cadascuna es troba en un punt que no veu a l'altra i cadascuna talla les plantes amb un talla gespa.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/1100x548_blanco_nello_1.png?itok=YqQ6z5MM)
The trend towards the residential segregation of social groups is materialising, to varying degrees, in every town and city, ours too. The matter of socio-spatial inequalities...
![Il·lustració © Ana Yael Zareceansky. Una carretera circular tancada com una pista de tren d'un joc infantil. Per l'interior hi passeja un home i un cotxe cap per avall. El tub d'escapament treu fum que alhora sembla que dibuixi un núvol.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/1100x548_josep_bohigas_1.png?itok=oVxIj0kh)
From the beginning, the ring roads defined a new urban reality that confirmed Barcelona’s change of scale, its transformation from a city to a ...
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