TRANSFORMATIONS
Via Laietana
We are transforming Via Laietana into an avenue that gives priority to pedestrians and sustainable mobility: it will be a greener street, with more space for people to stroll along and which opts for local commerce.
Glòries
The transformation work on Les Glòries is closely linked to the development of the work on the tramway, the opening of the underground road tunnels, which are already in operation, and the tactical redevelopment of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, from Plaça de les Glòries to, roughly, the Rambla del Poblenou.
Olympic Port
The aim is to reclaim this space as a place for walking and enjoying, where the blue economy is the star attraction.
Pi i Margall
This street will be transformed into a green hub connecting Parc de la Ciutadella to Collserola.
Green hubs, squares and superblocks in Barcelona
Barcelona Superblock has become the transformation model for the entire city’s streets, for achieving a fairer and safer healthy public space with more greenery.
Cycle lanes
The cyclable network is set to grow with a further 32.6 kilometres of bike lanes by 2023 and improvements to existing lanes to make journeys safer and more sustainable.
We're protecting schools
We are advancing towards traffic-calming in urban spaces around schools and nurseries, to reduce accident rates, create more meeting places and improve environmental quality.
Playable city
All urban planning safeguards the right of children to play in public spaces. The aim in Barcelona’s more than 900 play areas is for the whole city to be playable.
Diagonal - Tramway
The first stage of the connection to Diagonal will extend the tramway from Les Glòries to C/ Girona. The initiative will also affect Plaça de les Glòries, where a large interchange is to be built between the tramway and various urban and intercity bus lines and the metro.
Meridiana
Av Meridiana acts as a true urban motorway used by thousands of cars every day. The goal is to make this avenue more people friendly, with more greenery and meeting spaces.
Productive Superblock
The strategy to regenerate manufacturing networks along the right bank of the Besòs river addresses the challenges of turning the historically isolated industrial estates there into an extension of the urban layout.
Sants station and its surroundings
A benchmark space for mobility and the urban planning of the future: sustainable, integrated into the new urban model, geared towards city residents and fully connected to the neighbourhood.
RECLAIMING AND EXTENDING PUBLIC SPACES
We are working on urban transformation for better living; gaining a million square metres of space for people, making the city a greener and healthier environment with less noise and pollution, calming traffic and protecting schools, with streets and squares for meeting up and living our lives in.
TRANSFORMING THE CITY FOR EVERYONE’S WELL-BEING
A city where elderly people and children are the key figures in streets and squares, where you will find shade, places for sitting and meeting up, taking a stroll, cycling, playing and going to local shops. A city you’d want to live in.
MORE PUBLIC TRANSPORT, LESS POLLUTION. HEALTHIER
A city with clean air, more and better connected, where priority is given to sustainable public transport, with exclusive lanes for buses, doubling the number of cycling-network km and promoting key infrastructures, such as tramway connections through Diagonal. A city with a metropolitan and healthy approach.
AN ECONOMICALLY MORE COMPETITIVE CITY
We champion the local economy, which protects shops we’ve known all our lives, while regenerating industrial fabrics, integrating them into the city and turning them into talent and innovation magnets, incentivising an economic model that creates quality jobs and brings added value to neighbourhoods.
GREEN HUBS, SQUARES, PARKS FOR A GREENER CITY
The amount of greenery is multiplying everywhere: more than 40 new hectares of vegetation are being gained, making 1 out of every 3 of the city’s streets green, with new species of trees and shrubs. Climate shelters are being created to help people deal with increasingly extreme temperatures.
WE CAN NOW ENJOY…
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217
traffic-calmed school environments
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900
children’s play areas
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245
km of cycle lanes
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75
%
of the city has a speed limit of 30 km/h
News
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23/05/2024 - 16:18 h Urban planning and infrastructures Competition to replace tactical urban planning in Sant Antoni resolvedThe proposal includes the design of the areas of Comte Borrell – Parliament and Rocafort – Tamarit.
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13/02/2024 - 18:00 h Work to cover the Ronda de Dalt in Horta-Guinardó to start in JuneThe project will generate an additional 16,000 square metres of space for local people and connect the local neighbourhoods.
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24/10/2023 - 17:41 h Work starts on the biodiversity shelter in Fort PiencThe site of the former Casa Gay will be renovated, at C/ Marina, 122.
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17/10/2023 - 14:36 h More sustainable, durable and resilient concrete paving stones are starting to be usedThe paving stones are to be installed in the green hub in C/ Almogavers, where their performance will be assessed.
