What It Takes to Make a Home

The documentary film produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture follows a conversation between two architects, from Vienna and Los Angeles, who have been searching for long-term strategies for housing the homeless. Focussing on some causes and conditions of homelessness, the film questions...

Post-Covid architecture policy: towards a “great shared space”

The effect that COVID-19 is having on urban planning—promotion of active mobility or renaturalisation of cities—essentially means an acceleration of already existing trends. The urban planner Alain Guiheux would like to go even further and, in this AOC article, calls for a great shared space, an...

In Defence of Walking

La colección de ensayos del escritor británico Matthew Beaumont, The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City, recomendada por el Financial Times como uno de los mejores libros sobre arquitectura publicados este año explora la relación entre el caminar, pensar y escribir....

The Tactical Reconquest of Asphalt

Barcelona, which has been introducing measures to gain public space for pedestrians and bicycles for some years now, has intensified its tactical urbanism activity during the pandemic. These swift, economical projects, some one-off and others more systemic, are not exempt of controversy. El País...

"Practising the politics of difference in a shared space enriches coexistence"

• Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold argues in favour of physical presence in personal contacts at a time when our communication is increasingly indirect and through digital means.

What is the future of cities faced with heat waves?

Según las previsiones para el año 2100 y a causa del cambio climático, las condiciones climatológicas se desplazarán al sur aproximadamente 6º en relación con las zonas geográficas. Eso significa, argumenta el artículo de la revista AOC, que Ginebra pre-alpina tendrá el clima actual de Palermo y...

The Pandemic, Southern Urbanisms and Collective Life

in the massifying cities of the global south, where most urban people in the world live, ‘social distancing’ as prescribed by northern health protocols is just about impossible. 

Rethinking La Rambla

Some years ago, La Rambla, a much-loved thoroughfare in the centre of Barcelona, ceased to be an everyday space for citizens to become an iconic street of the global metropolis devoted to tourist monoculture. Now, the crisis caused by COVID-19 and the absence of tourists has left it in critical...

Pandemic adds greater urgency to outstanding challenges in humanisation of public space

Rebajar las emisiones de CO2, renaturalizar las ciudades, combatir a los efectos nocivos del monocultivo turístico y la economía digital que han alterado el tejido productivo de las ciudades, etc. Expertos internacionales analizan para el diario Ara los retos que el espacio público afrontaba...