As part of the Raval Sud and Gòtic Sud Neighbourhood Plan, Plaça de Sant Miquel has been renovated as the result of a process of debate with local residents, turning the plaza —previously a grey esplanade full of cars— into a welcoming space and a meeting point for children, open to everyone. This action aims to turn the square into a large leisure space to encourage neighbourhood and playable-city uses, and involves generating new seating and play spaces, and pedestrian routes, and creating flowerbeds with vegetation and trees. The lighting and the sewer network have also been renewed, and new street furniture installed.

The new layout restricts dynamics associated with vehicles or services, and encourages those related to local uses. It creates spaces with different play and recreational elements that allow free, creative intergenerational use. In this way, the space given over to children and young people, and seating areas for families, the elderly and local people in general have more than doubled. The intervention has also increased the surface area for vegetation and soft paving or earth, including a children’s sandpit.