9 Best Articles in 2022
WIRED UK
Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance
WIRED UK
~14 min read · From 2018 · CRISTINA QUICLER/AFP/Getty Images In 2015 Ada Colau, an activist with no experience in government, became mayor of Barcelona. She called for a democratic revolution, and for the last two years city…
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Cities For People: How Paris & Barcelona Learned Urban Planning From Groningen
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Mar 5th · Paris (15-Minute City) Barcelona (Superblocks), Groningen (Quality of Life Program): Three European cities with unique histories facing common problems: How ...
Shared by 77, including Moritz Meenen, Wisevis, Thomas Pleil
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Barcelona Offers Free Transit to Residents Who Ditch Their Cars
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3 min read · 2021-10-12 · In Barcelona, citizens who choose to get rid of an older and less efficient car receive a free transit travel pass that’s valid for three years.
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City of Barcelona Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Linux and Open Source
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3 min read · From 2018 · Brief: Barcelona city administration has prepared the roadmap to migrate its existing system from Microsoft and proprietary software to Linux and Open Source software. A Spanish newspaper, El País,…
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Guardian Travel
Why tourism is killing Barcelona
Guardian Travel
~14 min read · From 2018 · One of the coolest destinations in Europe just two decades ago, Barcelona is now so overcrowded it has become a tourist theme park – and is losing the character that made it so popular
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It's Nice That
For Mental Health Awareness Week, Niceshit animates the emotions of healthcare workers as kid-friendly characters
It's Nice That
May 13th · The Barcelona-based animation studio talks us through the character-building process behind The Feelings, visualising real emotional states identified by first responders.
Guardian Tech
Airbnb slump means Europe's cities can return to residents, say officials
Guardian Tech
4 min read · From 2020 · Cities like Barcelona want to use crisis to allow people to rent properties at decent rates
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Fast Company
Sustainable cities after COVID-19: Why Barcelona-style green zones could be the answer
Fast Company
3 min read · 2020-12-18 · For a glimpse at the city of the future, look no further than 2,000-year-old Barcelona.
Reader View · Shared by 42, including Brooks Rainwater
Guardian Travel
Barcelona without the tourists: ‘We've reclaimed our city but inherited a ghost town’
Guardian Travel
4 min read · From 2020 · Last year Barcelona received 30 million visitors – now there are none. Emerging from Europe’s strictest coronavirus lockdown, how do its tourist-weary residents feel about getting their city back?
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It's Nice That
For Mental Health Awareness Week, Niceshit animates the emotions of healthcare workers as kid-friendly characters
It's Nice That
May 13th · The Barcelona-based animation studio talks us through the character-building process behind The Feelings, visualising real emotional states identified by first responders.
The Wall Street Journal
Cities Take the Lead in Setting Rules Around How AI Is Used
The Wall Street Journal
5 min read · Apr 9th · A look at what New York, London, Barcelona and other places are doing to establish regulations that other cities—and countries—may want to copy.
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The Guardian
Barcelona v Lyon: Women’s Champions League final 2022
The Guardian
2 min read · May 21st · Will Barcelona defend their Women’s Champions League crown? Or will seven-time champions Lyon return to the throne? Find out with Rob Smyth
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Guardian Travel
Rail route of the month: Barcelona to Cádiz, the slow train right across Spain
Guardian Travel
5 min read · Apr 5th · Our slow travel expert takes a 12-hour odyssey from Mediterranean Catalonia – via Cervantes, bandit and sherry country – to Atlantic Andalucía
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Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
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From 2016 · Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians. Read more: http...
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Mind the Product
Bets, Boards, Missions and North Stars by John Cutler
Mind the Product
2 min read · 2021-03-29 · In this ProductTank Barcelona talk, John Cutler talks about bets, boards, missions, and north stars explaining how to apply them in your organisation, and why it's important.
Reader View · Shared by 61, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Mark Kaigwa, John Cutler
MIT Technology Review
Network science reveals the secrets of the world’s best soccer team
MIT Technology Review
5 min read · From 2019 · A new kind of analysis shows why the Barcelona team of 2009-10 stands head and shoulders above the rest. And the same approach could do the same for other sports.
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Barcelona Opera Reopens With An Audience Of Plants
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1 min read · 2020-06-23 · As Spain lifted its national state of emergency, the Liceu opera house in Barcelona found alternative living things to fill nearly 2,300 seats.
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MWC Barcelona
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2 min read · From 2018 · MWC Barcelona (formerly Mobile World Congress) convenes the industry to share innovation, explore trends and hear from today's leaders and influencers.
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GSMA Statement on MWC Barcelona 2020 from John Hoffman, CEO GSMA Limited
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1 min read · From 2020 · 12 February 2020, Barcelona: Since the first edition of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in 2006, the GSMA has convened the industry, governments, ministers, policymakers, operators and industry…
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WIRED UK
Inside the bizarre ICO bubble
WIRED UK
20+ min read · From 2018 · On October 3, 2017, a cloudy, muggy day, 700,000 people took to the streets of Barcelona to protest against Spain’s government. Two days earlier, Madrid had reacted harshly when Catalonia had held a…
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VentureBeat
Amazon to open machine learning R&D hub in Barcelona
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2 min read · From 2017 · Amazon has announced plans to open a new machine learning-focused research and development (R&D) hub in Barcelona, and the internet giant expects to hire more than 100 engineers and scientists when it…
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TechCrunch
9 VCs in Madrid and Barcelona discuss the COVID-19 era and look to the future
TechCrunch
3 min read · 2020-09-29 · Spain’s startup ecosystem has two main hubs: Madrid and Barcelona. Most observers place Barcelona first and Madrid second, but the gap appears to close every year. Barcelona has benefitted from…
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