Getty Images The lighting, furniture and industrial design firms that sprang up in Barcelona’s design-obsessed decades have proved to have a more lasting mark on the city’s aesthetic stamp.

Barcelona turned a depressed inner-city district into a high-powered knowledge hub by utilizing an ingenious form of real-estate development, writes columnist Neal Peirce. The Spanish model is ...

One of Barcelona’s largest parks, named after Spanish painter Joan Miro, is just a stone’s throw from the busy crossroads between Consell de Cent and Rocafort streets, but here you could be ...

Ever since the 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona has been admired as a model for urban revitalization through imaginative design and civic identity. Barcelona ’92 was designed with a TV audience in mind ...

The Master's Degree in Urban Design for Healthy Cities course at UIC Barcelona equips students with tools to design environmentally conscious spaces.

In Barcelona, urban planning in this way is estimated to prevent almost 700 premature deaths every year from air pollution, road traffic noise, and heat.

Barcelona Project: Cement Factory Architects: Ricardo Bofill, Taller de Arquitectura Date: 1975–? “Originally the experiment was to find the most ugly thing in the world—this cement factory ...

The new urban design aims to put at its centre groups that have traditionally been excluded, like children, women and the elderly, she added.