Francesc Muñoz
Urbanist and Lecturer in Urban Geography
Lecturer in Urban Geography, director of the Observatory of Urban Planning at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and teacher at the Università IUAV di Venezia, where he regularly gives seminars. He has received prizes such as the Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis Attending to Human Values in Engineering (UPC, 2004) and the Bonaplata Award for the exhibition The Light Factory, about the power station in Sant Adrià de Besòs (2014).
He has curated shows such as the commemorative exhibition of 30 years of democratic town councils, Local, local! The City to Come (CCCB, 2010), and the exhibition Architectures on the Waterfront (Fundació Mies van der Rohe, 2019), and has been a member of the Cerdà Year Advisory Board (2010). He has also been an advisor for the exhibition "Suburbia: Building the American Dream" (CCCB, 2024).
He has published numerous articles and books about global transformations of urban landscapes, including urBANALización: Paisajes Comunes, Lugares Globales (2008) and Estratègies vers la ciutat de baixa densitat: de la contenció a la gestió (2011).
Update: 29 January 2025
Contents
Margaret Crawford
Rethinking Suburbia
Agendas and Strategies for Addressing a Suburban Model
Sarai Samper, Roger Sauquet, Jordi Boixader and Francesc Muñoz
Opening
Francesc Muñoz, Josep Báguena and Judit Carrera
Suzanne Hall and Nigel Thrift
Cities and the Anthropocene
Saskia Sassen
Wield the Word. Justice and Equality
Book presentation "Ruinas modernas, una topografía de lucro"
With Julia Schulz-Dornburg, Josep Maria Benach, Pedro Azara and Francesc Muñoz.
Global Tourism, Souvenir Cities
Debate with Jordi Tresserras Juan, Saida Palou, Octavi Rofes and Salvador Anton
"The Pleasure of the City", by Xavier Monteys
Presentation
Raval
Soy Cámara online
Interview with Francesc Muñoz
"Local, local! The city to come" curator
"Cerdà Postmetròpolis" Congress
Presentation by Francesc Muñoz
Publications
Suburbia
The construction of the american dream
Local, local!
La ciutat que ve / La ciudad que viene
Architectures of Fear
Terrorism and the Future of Urbanism in the West
