Barcelona - Livable Cities 2025 Conference

CALL

Barcelona is seen as one of the world’s most livable cities. Ranked particularly high for its renowned cultural scene, lifestyle, architecture, outdoor parks and beaches, it is also Europe’s third most progressive city for start-ups. However, it is also a city that suffers from unaffordable housing, uncontrolled tourism, noise pollution and over density. It has a high cost of living, has experienced gentrification and has pockets of social deprivation.

In such contradictions and paradoxes, Barcelona is a microcosm of cities the world over – a place where notions of ‘livability’ are far from consistent. How it, or any other city, responds to this situation is complicated, and often contested. For architects and urbanists, affordable housing may be a question of planning. For sociologists, improvements to the built city are community concerns.

Using the city of Barcelona as an example then, this conference explores how cross-disciplinary readings of cities the world over shed light on what makes the places we inhabit ‘livable’. It welcomes debates around urban planning policy, architectural design, participatory practice urban infrastructure and smart city planning …. and more.

DETAILS:

Dates: 16-18 July, 2025

Abstracts: 25 April 2025 (Final Round)

Place: Universitat Ramon Llull – La Salle, Barcelona

https://amps-research.com/conference/barcelona-livable-cities/

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Universitat Ramon Llull, La Salle, Barcelona. Logistics by AMPS. Publications by Cambridge Scholars.