
This past February, students embarked on our annual field trip to continue the reconstruction work that our previous student group began last year in the coastal town of San José…
This past February, students embarked on our annual field trip to continue the reconstruction work that our previous student group began last year in the coastal town of San José…
*Scroll down for an update to this post. Earthquake-hit Chamanga On April 16th 2016, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake devastated coastal Ecuador, killing over 700 people just one month before being rattled…
From its 19th century grid expansion devised by the Catalan engineer that coined the term ‘urbanization’, to the urban renewal projects led by Manuel de Solà-Morales and Oriol Bohigas during…
Poverty is widely perceived as an ailment of the developing world, but its reach extends to rich countries where the recent recession has only exacerbated the problem. The need for…
It’s that time of year again when our students embark on their field trip to experience first-hand the kind of developing contexts they have been analyzing throughout the course and…
This week marks the beginning of our annual socio-spatial workshop in which our students undertake a hands-on, real-world project with a local neighborhood in Barcelona in assessing its social and…
We are proud to announce that the socio-spatial analysis conducted by our students this year in the Torre Baro workshop to assess the strategic value of spatial and cultural resources…
This weekend our students and codirector Carmen Mendoza will take off on their two-week field trip to explore collaborative urban strategies on the Tijuana-San Diego border under the guidance of…
“An abandoned Torre Baro, is also [part of] Barcelona. More investment, less deception.” This week our students are taking part in a hands-on, real-world workshop in Torre Baro with the…
The agreement between the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society (IFRC) and the UIC, enables the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) to offer a three week 6…