Last week the Barcelona city council announced its plan to designate 222 vacant apartments as social housing units in the area of Torre BarĂ³, a peripheral low-income neighborhood of Barcelona….
This year’s workshop with the Ciutat Meridiana neighborhood, which focused on improving the living conditions of this “Eviction City” through urban upgrading strategies and community participation, was featured in a…
If you have followed our updates over the last few months, you already know about one of this year’s main focal points, the Ciutat Meridiana workshop, an academic exercise and…
Next Wednesday December 19th in Nou Barris, Barcelona, our students will officially present a series of tools and urban intervention proposals for Ciutat Meridiana, a peripheral neighborhood in Barcelona that…
Here are more photographs of the Ciutat Meridiana participation session that took place on December 1st. The session was organized by our students together with the local municipality as part…
A student listens to a local resident to map her daily routes and accessibility issues through the steep topography of the neighborhood As we announced on Friday, our students set…
In an urban action organized by our masters group together with the local municipality, students will be hosting a community participation session in Ciutat Meridiana, tomorrow December 1st as part…
This week our students paid a visit to La Mina neighborhood in Barcelona, an example of urban renewal that serves as a case study for their current project to improve…
Much of the Spanish economy was put on hold today as it joined other European countries in a general strike. In the past few weeks, Spain’s economic crisis has been…
Spain’s eviction crisis made the headlines in today’s New York Times, which reported the wave of evictions that reach up to 500 a day and total half a million since…