Urban resilience walking tours

Today we would like to share some updates with you. This season we are offering tours that focus on different areas of the city that showcase strategies Barcelona is implementing for urban resilience. Among the objectives are a greener city, and the capacity to integrate multicultural complexity into our urban fabric in a way that is respectful and sustainable.

These routes will take the walker through different projects that has implemented the urban resilience, public spaces, green zones, and “superblocks”. We will discuss what the difficulties and challenges of each project are in reaching a common goal of increasing space for public interactions and to reinforce the social fabric of each neighborhood.

The BARCELONA & THE FUTURE tour takes the walker through the POBLE NOU district, where the first superblock was introduced several years ago. We visit the area surrounding the Glories Plaza that has both projects that are complete like the Gran Clariana, and the park, still under construction, that will become a new central meeting point for Barcelona.

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The BARCELONA & URBANISM tour takes you to the area surrounding the SANT ANTONI MARKET, where we can see the second superblock in Barcelona and how it was integrated into the market renovation in one of the densest neighborhoods in the city.

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Our BARCELONA & LANDSCAPE special tour takes the walker through different green spaces in the city with a focus on PASEO SAN JOAN. A beautiful project that converted one of the most important avenues of the city using landscape design. A street that had been neglected over the years has been transformed into a neighborhood community space that integrates cars, pedestrians, public space, leisure areas, and areas for play.

Come with us and see first-hand the strategies the city is using to design the Barcelona of the Future.

BOOK HERE!

Barcelona & Urban resilience

Today Barcelona Architecture Walks would like to share some updates with you. We are now offering tours that focus on different areas of the city that showcase strategies Barcelona is implementing for urban resilience. Among the objectives are a greener city, and the capacity to integrate multicultural complexity into our urban fabric in a way that is respectful and sustainable.

These routes will take the walker through different projects that has implemented the urban resilience, public spaces, green zones, and “superblocks”. We will discuss what the difficulties and challenges of each project are in reaching a common goal of increasing space for public interactions and to reinforce the social fabric of each neighborhood.

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The BARCELONA & THE FUTURE tour takes the walker through the POBLE NOU district, where the first superblock was introduced several years ago. We visit the area surrounding the Glories Plaza that has both projects that are complete like the Gran Clariana, and the park, still under construction, that will become a new central meeting point for Barcelona.

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The BARCELONA & URBANISM tour takes you to the area surrounding the SANT ANTONI MARKET, where we can see the second superblock in Barcelona and how it was integrated into the market renovation in one of the densest neighborhoods in the city.

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Our BARCELONA & LANDSCAPE special tour takes the walker through different green spaces in the city with a focus on PASEO SAN JOAN. A beautiful project that converted one of the most important avenues of the city using landscape design. A street that had been neglected over the years has been transformed into a neighborhood community space that integrates cars, pedestrians, public space, leisure areas, and areas for play.

Come with us and see first-hand the strategies the city is using to design the Barcelona of the Future.

BOOK HERE!

Refraiming Urban Resilience Implementation

10, 11 and 12th December Urban Resilience Research Network at UIC

The UIC Barcelona School of Architecture has organised an international academic forum that is due to take place on 10, 11 and 12 December and will explore the policies being developed around the globe to make cities more sustainable, secure and resilient. This is the 11th edition of the annual conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU), held in cooperation with UN-Habitat and the Urban Resilience Research Network (URNet) under the title “Refraiming Urban Resilience Implementation:Aligning Sustainability and Resilience”.

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As part of the event, researchers, professionals, multilateral agencies, members of civil society and city to city learning networks will shape collective debates on ways to critically understand and integrate the different views on how to implement urban resilience, generating more holistic and inclusive approaches. The conference supports the New Urban Agenda and the 11th Sustainable Development Goal. “To make cities more inclusive, secure, resilient and sustainable”.

Among the conference’s keynote speakers are:

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Timon McPhearson

Director of the Urban Systems Lab at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School in New York and regular contributor to the scientific journal Nature

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Adriana Allen

Professor in the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London

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Chris Zevenbergen

Professor in the Water Engineering Department of the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands and one of the world’s leading experts in urban flood management

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Isabelle Anguelovski

Coordinator of the Healthy Cities and Environmental Justice Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Institute for Medical Research

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Gonzalo Lizarralde

Holder of the Université de Montréal Fayolle-Magil Construction Research Chair in Architecture, the Built Environment and Sustainability and specialist in disaster risk reduction and post-disaster reconstruction policies

The 11th edition of the IFoU, which UIC Barcelona will host at the end of the year, is an activity organised as part of Barcelona Resilience Days, an initiative of UN-Habitat which, between October and December, aims to raise awareness of the concept of urban resilience and encompasses World Cities Day and Barcelona Resilience Week.

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The event also coincides with the launch the first edition of the new International Master’s Degree in City Resilience Design and Management at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture and puts Barcelona on the global map of cities leading research in urban resilience.

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