At the end of last year, our students participated in the socio-spatial workshop Post-Covid Public Space Transformations. The workshop, led by our director Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo, assistant director Raquel Colacios and…
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“Post-Covid Public Space Transformations” is the topic of our current socio-spatial workshop. Over the past years, our students worked with Ciutat Refugi, a municipal program that handles the reception, accommodation…
Our director Carmen Mendoza Arroyo speaks at a roundtable discussion ‘Superblocks – Towards a new Urban Model’ Public health has always been one of the major drivers of urban change….
Last week, our students embarked on their journey to Peru for our annual field trip. Together with our director Carmen Mendoza Arroyo and assistant director Raquel Colacios, they arrived in Pedregal,…
In this article, originally posted on their blog Raw City Dwellers, our 2017-18 students Pratika Talegaonkar and Damini Rathi contemplate the struggle of Barcelona’s manteros for their right to the city….
From time to time we like to share some of the knowledge made available to our students throughout our course in the form of recommended readings from our guest professors,…
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…
Now that the New Urban Agenda–the world’s designated blueprint for sustainable urban development adopted at Habitat III last month–has been signed and sealed, the focus on the historic agreement has…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Bellvitge, a working class peripheral neighborhood of Barcelona that became one of the largest residential complexes in Europe when it was constructed in…
“The sad truth is that little of architectural quality has been built in Cairo in decades, no useful lessons learned from other big capitals, no progressive approaches to city planning…