SubjectUrban planning and infrastructures
![Il·lustració d'una fila de persones agafant cada una amb les mans el cap de qui té davant](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/ekaitz_cancela.png?itok=Mm7-JWs1)
Urban environments are characterised by the opportunities they offer to think of a political culture where shared knowledge assets can be managed jointly by different sized groups with...
![Barcelona’s ring roads and some of the major highways connecting with Catalonia’s northern regions come together at the interchange of La Trinitat. Barcelona’s ring roads and some of the major highways connecting with Catalonia’s northern regions come together at the interchange of La Trinitat.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/006_fronteres_-arianna_gimenez_beltran.jpg?itok=mmFsNozo)
There are an infinite number of borders in Barcelona. Social borders, that separate our ways of life and the possibilities they have to offer (the ‘Upper Diagonal’ concept, the Paral·lel...
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Judgements that the cité has ‘failed’ to open up are thus Janus-faced: one side of the coin shows angry populist prejudice, but on the other face can appear the self-satisfied...
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The change in era we’re currently experiencing is altering many of the values, conceptual schemes and balances upon which post-war Europe was built. The “Ciutat Oberta” (Open City)...
![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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From a feminist perspective, cities need to respond to the human need to inhabit, not to accumulate wealth. They need to allow people to live where they were born and to access the type...
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