Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Augsburg, 1971) is an architect, urban planner, and professor at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. She has carried out research into urbanisation processes linked to migration, informal…
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This week, we talked to Chiara Pirro, who graduated from our program in 2014 and returned to her native Italy. Inspired by her experience during her time at our university, she…
Next Monday, Turkish urban planner Zeynep Günay of Istanbul Technical University will be giving an open lecture titled Heritage as Conflict, in which she will provide a critical commentary on…
TV Interview with Isabelle Anguelovski on environmental justice for the development of neighborhoods
Environmental justice, as studied in a variety of disciplines, is most often associated with addressing a certain population’s disproportionate exposure to pollution, contamination, and toxic sites. But environmental justice is…
GASS2014 (Great Asian Streets Symposium) will be held in Singapore on 11 and 12 December 2014. Online submission for papers is open –our co-director Carmen Mendoza is part of the…
This year we also welcomed back Dr. Reena Tiwari, Associate Professor in the Departments of Urban & Regional Planning and Architecture at Curtin University of Technology Perth, who told us…
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…
Take a look at this interview with the director of our masters program, Giovanna Carnevali, in which she talks about the workshop she recently led with our students in a…
Earlier this month, the masters program held a three-week workshop directed by Giovanna Carnevali in collaboration with UN-HABITAT Training and Capacity Building Branch, Barcelona Department of Urban Planning, and the…
Our students recently completed a four day workshop with guest professor Jean du Plessis, capacity building expert for the Training and Capacity Building branch of UN HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya….