In Barcelona, Gentrification Is Also Coming From "Green" City Planning

In Barcelona, Gentrification Is Also Coming From "Green" City Planning

Updated March 17, 2025 at 6:40 p.m.*BARCELONA — In 1976, Barcelona's General Metropolitan Plan (PGM) was approved as a framework for the city's urban planning. But the city's issues back then were different than what it faces today: from unsustainable pollution levels to the threat of climate change and a lack of affordable housing, a problem inherited from the 2008 financial crisis.The gentrification of Barcelona began in the 2010s, exemplified…

Barcelona City Council has approved this Tuesday to create a dozen green axes to pacify traffic and prioritize pedestrian passage and the extension of vegetation in 11 sections of the 22@, in the district of Sant Martí. The proposal, which has been handled since Ada Colau was mayor, attends to a model that the Comuns have made flag, but that this time has come forward in the municipal commission of urban planning with endorsements that surprise …