1) Barcelona has a knowledge-intensive and internationally oriented economy, with all sectors having considerable weight and Barcelona accounting for 30% of Catalonia's GDP. 2) Socially oriented city design began in the 19th century, and current residential density of around 450 dwellings/ha puts pressure on public space. 3) The document discusses Barcelona's goals of becoming a productive city formed by self-sufficient neighborhoods at a human scale, within a connected, efficient metropolis, to improve issues like unemployment, marginalization, and lack of affordability.

1. BARCELONA, TOWARDS THE SOCIAL
DREAM
Mr. Antoni Vives, Deputy Mayor for the Urban Habitat
Barcelona City Council
http://w110.bcn.cat/portal/site/HabitatUrba
http://HabitatUrba.bcn.cat/blog/
8th, October 2014

2. KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE AND
INTERNATIONAL DYNAMIC
ECONOMY
Barcelona leads a large economic
area, where all sectors have
considerable weight. With a long
industrial tradition and a strong
entrepreneurial fabric, Barcelona is
committed to a knowledge-intensive
open and internationalized economy.
Barcelona’s GDP accounts for 30%
of Catalonia’s, which in turn
represents between 20-30% of
Spanish figures.

4. Socially Oriented City Design begins in
the XIXth Century

6. The need to plan for an OPEN SYSTEN
Current Barcelona’s Residential Density is around 450 dwellings/Ha
This puts a lot of pressure into public space

7. URBAN HABITAT
THE WELFARE CITY
URBAN CAPACITY BUILDING
- Employment
- Basic needs
- Human development
- Wealth distribution
- Equity
- Social justice
…VERSUS NATIONAL POLICIES
- GDP oriented
- Financing
- Debts
- Tax collection

8. URBAN HABITAT
THE WELFARE CITY
LEGACY TO FUTURE GENERATIONS
- Quality of what we share
- Sustainable development and environment

9. URBAN HABITAT
THE WELFARE CITY
BARCELONA IS A SOCIAL DREAM…

10. URBAN HABITAT
THE WELFARE CITY
… BUT ONE THAT HAS TO IMPROVE
(UNEMPLOYMENT, MARGINALISATION, SCHOOL DROP-OUTS, MIGRANTS
EXODUS, AGING POPULATION, FINANCIAL BUBBLE, LACK OF
AFFORDABILITY…)

11. OUR WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS
1. PRODUCTIVE CITIES AT HUMAN SCALE
2. INCLUSIVE CITY
3. CITY OF PARKS AND OPEN SPACES
4. AN URBAN HABITAT THAT CONSUMES THE ENERGY IT PRODUCES
5. A SOCIALLY SMART CITY

12. BARCELONA’S URBAN HABITAT MANTRA
WE WANT BARCELONA TO BECOME A CITY FORMED BY
PRODUCTIVE & SELFSUFFICIENT NEIGHBOURHOODS, AT
HUMAN SPEED, INSIDE A HIGHSPEED, HIPERCONNECTED
ECOEFFICIENT METROPOLIS
MANY SLOW CITIES INSIDE A SMART CITY

13. BARCELONA’S URBAN HABITAT MANTRA
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH, MULTILAYERED MANAGEMENT

14. BARCELONA MANTRA
WE WANT BARCELONA TO BECOME A
PRODUCTIVE CITY FORMED CITY BY AT PRODUCTIVE HUMAN SCALE
&
SELFSUFFICIENT NEIGHBOURHOODS,
AT HUMAN SPEED, INSIDE A HIGHSPEED,
HIPERCONNECTED ECOEFFICIENT
METROPOLIS
(MANY SLOW CITIES INSIDE A SMART CITY)

15. DESIGN NOT FOR PEOPLE, BUT
WITH PEOPLE
EQUIVALENT A…
DE GLÒRIES A DIAGONAL MAR

16. DESIGN NOT FOR PEOPLE, BUT
WITH PEOPLE
EQUIVALENT A…
DE GLÒRIES A DIAGONAL MAR

17. THINK OF THE USES OF PUBLIC
SPACE

18. GLÒRIES ESCALA HUMANA
PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS

19. GOOD DESIGN ATTRACTS PEOPLE

20. 20
EVERY CORNER COUNTS…

21. 21
URBAN ACCUPUNCTURE IS
CRUCIAL

24. LARGE PROJECTS AND
MICROURBANISATIONS

25. TEMPUSES OF PUBLIC WORKS
CAN FURTHER CONTRIBUTE TO
MARGINALISATION – THINK OF
THE MEANWHILE

27. THE FUNCTIONALITY OF PUBLIC
SPACE

30. INCLUSIVE CITY

31. BUILDINGS MAY STAY, BUT THEIR ACTIVITIES CONSTANTLY CHANGE
CITIES HAVE TO ADAPT TO CHANGING FORMS OF PRODUCTION

32. THINK OUT OF THE BOX – ANTICIPATE FUTURE
ATHENEUS OF FABRICATION (Fab Labs)
Democratize acces to digital manufacturing technologies.
Fab Labs, a new public service

37. ATTRACTING TALENT AND FOSTERING INNOVATION

38. SELF SUFFICIENT NEIGBOURHOODS HAVE PUBLIC MARKETS
ADAPTED TO NEW FORMS OF CONSUMPTION

40. Public Markets

41. Public Markets

42. THE NAUTICAL CLUSTER

43. THE NAUTICAL CLUSTER
- 1.175 COMPANIES IN THE NAUTICAL CLUSTER
SECTOR IN CATALONIA, OF WHICH 68% ARE
LOCATED IN THE PROVINCE OF BARCELONA.
- BARCELONA CONCENTRATES MORE THAN 350
COMPANIES.
- 44 DOCKS AND MARINES ALONG 780 KM OF
COASTLINE.
- IMPORTANT DEMAND: 300 PEOPLE PER BOAT
SPORT (ITALY 71 HAB. / GREEK 103 HAB. / FINLAND
7 HAB. / SPAIN 207 HAB).
- INCREASING DEMAND FOR LARGER BERTHS
LENGTHS.

44. Affordable housing
100M€ x 1.000 NEW
HOUSING UNITS

45. URBAN HABITAT THE WELFARE CITY
AFFORDABLE HOUSING AFTER THE BUBBLE
GENERATION OF 15.000 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS
- DEVELOPMENT OF 1000 NEW HOUSING UNITS (CONCESSION OF 25
PUBLIC OWNED UNDERGROUND PARKINGS WHICH WILL GENERATE 100
M €)
- REGENERATION OF 15.000 SECOND-HAND APARTMENTS
- PURCHASE OF UNOCCUPIED HOUSING UNITS
- 75 YEARS LEASE TO HOUSING COOPERATIVES TO DEVELOP SELF-SUFFICIENT
DWELLINGS
REGENERATION OF EXISTING HOUSING STOCK
- 17% OF THE CITY HOUSING STOCK (AROUND 140.000 UNITS) HAVE
RECEIVED PUBLIC FINANCIAL AID TO KEEP UP BEST LIVING STANDARDS

46. REHABILITATION: THE ENGINE OF THE
NEW CITY ECONOMY
(1M€ invested in rehabilitation = 35 new
jobs generated)

48. BARCELONA MANTRA
WE WANT BARCELONA TO BECOME A
CITY FORMED BY PRODUCTIVE &
SELFSUFFICIENT NEIGHBOURHOODS,
AT HUMAN SPEED, INSIDE A HIGHSPEED,
CITY OF PARKS AND OPEN SPACES
HIPERCONNECTED ECOEFFICIENT
METROPOLIS
(MANY SLOW CITIES INSIDE A SMART CITY)

49. Puts a lot of pressure into
public space

51. CONNECTING THE CITY WITH ITS NATURAL HINTERLANDS
THE “16 GATES OF COLLSEROLA” COMPETITION

52. ARCHITECTS: Xpiral (Javier Peña) + Nug (Amadeu Santacana + Umberto Viotto) + Tat Bonvehí

53. ARCHITECTS: Muro + STEM Arquitectes

54. AN URBAN HABITAT THAT
CONSUMES THE ENERGY IT
PRODUCES

55. From centralized energy production…

56. To distributed energy production…

57. SELF SUFFICENT BLOCKS
SOLAR ROOF
ENERGY WISE
MIXED USES
DISTRICT HEATING
WASTE RECICLING
ELECTRIC CAR
ELECTRIC BIKE
Self-sufficient blocks

58. THE CITY AS The ci tAy NasE aTWneOtwRoKr kOoFf NneEtTwWorOksRKS

59. Functional and self-sufficient buildings designed with ordinary people in
mind.
Lleialtat Santsenca, H Arquitectes

60. LIGHTING

61. PARC DE LES RIERES D’HORTA

62. BARCELONA INTEGRAL WASTE TREATMENT PLANT

63. WASTE TREATMENT MODEL IN BCN METROPOLITAN AREA
WASTE TREATMENT
 360.000 tones per
year
 Equivalent to waste
produced by 820.000
people
 Represents 30% of
total waste produced in
BCN metropolitan area
ELECTRICITY
 190.000 MWh of
electrical energy per year
 Equivalent to twice the
consumption of street
lighting in BCN
 Equivalent to the
electricity demand of
100.000 people
HEAT ENERGY
 80.000 tones of steam per year
 The steam produced in WtE plant feeds the
district heating and cooling network for the
neighborhoods around the plant
 The WtE plant supplies the 95% of the heat
demand of the 80 buildings connected to this
urban network along 15 km of underground
pipelines

64. BARCELONA’S SEWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

65. FLOODING PROBLEMS IN BARCELONA ( 1988)

66. Parc de les Rieres d’Horta
Parc Central Nou Barris
Current situation: existing detention tanks
Bori i Fontestà
Zona Universitària
Doctors Dolsa
Escola Industrial
Joan Miró
Fira 2
Diagonal Mar
Parc del Poblenou
Fòrum
Urgell-Mallorca
Porta Firal
Torrent Espinagosa
1997-2008 2008-2011 2011-2015
Total
investme
nt
145 M€ 205 M€ 9,5 M€

68. EFFICIENT WATER MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC SPACES
- 77 ORNAMENTAL FOUNTAINS REMOTELY CONTROLLED, 35 STAIRS AND
34 ELEVATORS
- 40% OF THE PARKS HAVE AUTOMATED IRRIGATION
- THE NEW SYSTEM REDUCES 25% THE VOLUME OF WATER CONSUMED
- WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS SYSTEM THREE CITY PARKS WILL
BE MANAGED AUTOMATICALLY (13 HA)
- THIS NEW MANAGEMENT PLATFORM ALLOWS AN ANNUAL SAVINGS OF
ABOUT 425,000 EUROS IN ANNUAL MUNICIPAL BILLS FOR WATER
CONSUMPTION FOR IRRIGATION OF PARKS AND GARDENS IN THE
CITY, WHICH IS AROUND 1.7 MILLION EUROS YEAR
- 293 HECTARES (68% OF THE TOTAL) ARE SENSITIVE TO BE REMOTELY
CONTROLLED.

69. A SOCIALLY SMART CITY

70. A SOCIALLY SMART CITY

73. BARCELONA
STRATEGIC ACTION LINES
PROJECT CATALOGUE
XXX…
CONNECTIVITY: WIFI / FIBER OPTIC
BCN SMART CITY
EFFICIENT STREET INTEGRATED SERVICES NETWORK REMOTEDLY
MANAGED
Saving
of 30% in
consumption,
equivalent to
4.5 M€/ year
ROI = 5 yrs
Lighting
masterplan
Distance, LUX,
hight
STANDARDS
50%
of lighting
power is
controlled
remotely
Point-to-point
management
and control
Lamppost
becoming
Telecoms
posts
Increased
Citizen sense
of security

74. LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES: CONNECTING EVERYTHING
To Connect the Unconnected
220,000 new engineers
are required every year from
2014-2022
IP Traffic will Increase
20x
by 2017
50 billion objects will be
connected to the Internet
by 2020
Only 1%
of what can be connected
is currently connected
Private sector
businesses to generate
$14.4 Trillion on profits
over next decade
Up to $19 Trillion
including public sector
Barcelona is saving $58 million a year on
smart water management and that parking
revenues have increased $50
million. Additionally, 47,000 jobs related to
the smart city effort have been created in
Barcelona

76. FROM JOHN SNOW’S CHOLERA MAP (1854) TO THE NEED TO COLLECT DATA
FROM EVERYDAY’S PEOPLE ORDINARY LIFE

77. USING NEW CARTOGRAPHIES TO UNDERSTAND
PEOPLE’S ORDINARY LIFE
1. LONDON (15.6M TOURISTS, RK: 1)
2. PARIS (9.7M TOURISTS, RK: 3)
3. NEW YORK (6.2M TOURISTS, RK: 5)
4. BARCELONA (4.7M TOURISTS, RK:10)
5. AMSTERDAM (3.9M TOURISTS, RK: 18)
Locals and Tourists , Eric Fischer
Blue – locals
Red – visitors
Yellow – probably visitors

78. USING NEW CARTOGRAPHIES TO UNDERSTAND
PEOPLE’S ORDINARY MOVEMENTS
Source: atnigth.ws (Catalan Young Architects)

79. OUR GOAL IS WORKING WITH INDIAN
CITIES
BARCELONA AND INDIAN CITIES ARE PEOPLE ORIENTED CITIES:
A SOCIAL DREAM, BASED ON A SOCIAL PROJECT
 Improving well-being and quality of life of citizens
 Reducing social inequalities
 Ensure equal opportunities in all spheres of social and collective life
WELFARE CITIES
 More flexible, less dogmatic, multi-disciplinary
CITY DECISIONS THAT LEAVE A LEGACY TO FUTURE GENERATIONS
 Quality of what we share, sustainable development and environment