This review article focuses on two key developments in urban history. The first is that the new transnational approach to urban history is significantly advancing the field and the second is that within the European context an important new emphasis is being placed on Eastern and Southern Europe. As claimed by Claus Møller Jørgensen in his review of nineteenth-century transnational urban history: transnational urban history entails a measure of comparative work to find commonalities as hints of connections . . . The enlargement of scale and the search for connections does add new perspectives to urban history and produces new knowledge . . . Focusing on cities as the location of transnational processes of modernity brings urban place more centrally into discussions of national space and national histories.1
El objetivo del artículo es entender si las medidas contenidas en el plan estratégico “Superilla Barcelona” pueden alcanzar una mejora del antiguo barrio industrial del Poblenou en Barcelona (España) bajo el paradigma de la ciudad post-Covid-19. Para ello, se ha realizado un informe sobre las transformaciones planeadas por dicho plan y su evaluación cualitativa a través de cuatro indicadores para cada uno de los ejes de la ciudad post-pandémica proporcionados por la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE), es decir, ciudades inclusivas, ciudades verdes y buena gobernanza urbana. Con este trabajo se pretende demonstrar que el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona ha cambiado enfoque sobre el proceso de regeneración urbana del Poblenou, aunque estos cambios derivan de unas actuaciones planeadas antes de la pandemia. El estallido de la pandemia ha sido un potente catalizador que permitió reinventar la forma de hacer ciudad hacía una mayor inclusión social, para que se pueda recorrer en bicicleta por carriles bici que antes no existían, con nuevos espacios públicos donde experimentar nuevas formas de agregación y transformación del ambiente urbano para ser más saludable.
The COVID-19 crisis created a drastic confrontation with our built environments and the city-making process. In Barcelona, the implementation of Superblocks' concept-including several measures to create healthier, more inclusive, and resilient environments -started in the pre-pandemic period (2016-2019) with difficulties of implementation in urban planning and governance.Barcelona's urban everyday life has changed during the pandemic toward a more human-centered approach, so Superblocksrelated solutions have gained support and attention. The City Council consequently in mid-2021 launched the "Barcelona Superblocks Government Measure" to apply the basic principles of this concept to planning processes and decision-making. Since then, urban planning policies have been implemented with fundamental urban changes induced by the pandemic and developed new urban regeneration strategies that prioritize public health in urban design. This chapter analyzes Superblocks-related measures and highlights the critical lessons learned from this experience for urban planning and governance in post-COVID-19 Barcelona. The main argument is that Barcelona's Superblocks are tied to human-centered pre-pandemic policies launched in the last decade. The disruption caused by COVID-19 has enabled the new normal by changes in urban planning and governance leading to more sustainable accessibility and connectivity though urban democracy, creating a new sense of community.
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