Urban Planning

Ariadna Romans i Torrent looks at cities as microcosms of broader ideological battles.

By prioritising residents over private vehicles, a Spanish municipality has overcome one of the biggest challenges facing Europe’s cities.

Some residents are taking matters into their own hands with innovative urban projects centred around ecology.

Drought and torrential rain exposed Italy to devastating floods last May. Inefficient administration, short-sighted politics, and an unstoppable appetite for urban sprawl are to blame.

With housing precarity rising in the city, Lyon Metropole is taking emergency steps to provide shelter to homeless and poorly housed people.

An ambitious policy to encourage cycling sparked by the pandemic has the potential to transform the French capital’s transport landscape.

This gargantuan project has aroused public enthusiasm and anger in equal measure, and continues to hold lessons for understanding people’s relationships with cities.

Presenting “Schuman goes to China”, the cooperation on green tech, urban planning and big data that shaped the geopolitics of 2049.

The layout and design of our cities excludes certain people from certain places and opportunities.

Few cities have succeeded in recreating the success of Bilbao’s Guggenheim museum. What was its secret & what can this tell us about urban dynamics?