Barcelona - the end of the tourism dream?
Barcelona town hall. Is the party over for Barcelona? The successful campaign to position the Catalan city as a mecca for art lovers and tourists has started to create a crisis for residents and politicians alike. At our most recent forum with the Mayor of London's Chief Digital Officer, Theo Blackwell, we discussed how residents were starting to use data to monitor noise levels in the residential areas of the Spanish city. Noise is just one problem of the tourism invasion th
Barcelona's MACBA opens the Francesc Torres installation
Barcelona's regeneration continues to create a sense of valuable cultural places for both city inhabitants and the international visitor. The Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) sits in El Raval, a working class district of winding alleyways, cafes and palm trees which is an area that requires on-going regenerative attention. However, the museum represents a modern outward looking approach that not only creates a cultural destination for city inhabitants and touris