The chapter reviews some of the fundamental contributions in the fields of Urban Planning and Design with the aim of establishing a basic bibliography that links Sociability and City. To do this, a first step is to understand ...

El desenvolupament dels sistemes postindustrials d'abastiment alimentari és paral·lel a l'explosió de la metròpoli moderna. La manera com cada llar s’aprovisiona de queviures —el tipus de menjar que compra, l'arquitectura ...

Barcelona is characterized by a unique food supply system based on 38 public market halls, 2,331 supermarkets, 1,997 food stores and 1,562 bakeries evenly dispersed in the urban fabric. The city is a model of what happens ...

This article presents an innovative “research by design” experience in the framework on an on-going investigation on Urban Mixticity within the Barcelona Urbanism Laboratory-LUB. In parallel, during six consecutive academic ...

One territory, four questions, one atlas arises from the need to rethink the collaboration between the four academic institutions (KULeuven; UMinho; AHO; ETSAB-UPC) after four years of Summer Workshops (3 editions in ...

This work approaches the phenomenon of the outdoor terraces of bars and restaurants, analysing the role of these privately owned collective elements whose layout has shaped the urban landscape at the pavement level for ...

This paper analyses the role of weekly markets in the food supply system in metropolitan Barcelona, understanding their form, measures and urban role in relation to market halls and other grocery stores. Quantitative – in ...

The origin of Barcelona’s food system can be determined at the time when open-air markets were moved to covered spaces. Since then, market halls have adapted to many different scenarios: they have been the built form of ...

The urban form of Barcelona can be explained through the distribution of food supply systems. Thirty-eight public food market halls — reachable at a walking distance of five minutes from half of the city's households — are ...