2024 Prize Advisory Committee Meeting in Barcelona

On March 1st, the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024  was held at the CCCB. This Committee, comprised of ten European institutions specializing in architecture and urban planning, ensures that the most compelling public space...

The 2022 Prize Catalogue is available online

The publication, which includes the most outstanding works from the 2022 award and the Jury members’ thoughts about them, is available online.

"The design of cities is crossed by an ethical shift"

• Paola Viganò

The Italian architect and urban planner reflects on the need to rethink the city and society, shaken by the pandemic and facing challenges such as climate change.

Ethnicity and space in the global city: a new frontier?

• Saskia Sassen

Published in Ciutat i immigració [City and immigration].  Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona,  1997. (Urbanitats;  2)

The space of challenge: reflections upon the relationship between public space and social conflict in contemporary Mumbai

• Himanshu Burte

Conference lectured at the symposium "(In)visible Cities. Spaces of Hope, Spaces of Citizenship", Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 25-27 July 2003

Public space in the information society

• Manuel Castells

Published  in Ciutat real, ciutat ideal: significat i funció a l'espai urbà modern. Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 1998 (Urbanitats; 7)   

Europe's urban civilisation in a virtual world

• Peter Hall

Lecture given at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona on 13th June 2008, during the awards ceremony for the 5th European Prize for Urban Public Space.

A philosophical idea of the city

• Josep Ramoneda

Conference lectured at Yale University, 2003

The reconquest of Europe.
Why public space?

• Albert García Espuche

Published in the exhibition catalogue The Reconquest of Europe. Urban public space. Barcelona: Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona,  1999