Heat waves that already affect the population of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) could significantly intensify in ...

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 ...

The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has unveiled a new tool: the Healthy Urban Design Index (HUDI). The HUDI is a composite index that evaluates 917 European cities based on 13 ...

Developer UNIQ Residential and Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management have announced a new joint residential project in Barcelona’s 22@ district, further strengthening a partnership ...

Barcelona ’s air quality improved in 2024 for the second year in a row, thanks to a series of polluting-cutting policies, the city’s air pollution monitoring network said in January.

“Barcelona has always sought excuses to talk about urban issues,” says the younger Bohigas, who served as director of the city’s strategic planning body from 2016 to 2023.

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.

Read the full article here on Open Democracy. The historic Ciutat Vella district is home to a paradigmatic example of neighbourhood resistance to urban renewal in Barcelona. For years, the area in the ...

Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have mapped Barcelona and its conurbation using a new methodology based on urbanism activist Jane Jacobs' ideas on how cities should be ...

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