Francesc Muñoz
Urbanist and professor
Professor of Urban Geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and director of the university’s Urban Planning Observatory. A specialist in urban structuring and planning and design of territorial strategies, he has participated as an expert adviser in Council of Europe missions in this field and has been the director of the Cerdà Postmetropolis International Congress. He has also been a guest lecturer at universities in other countries, for example France, Italy and the United Kingdom. He has studied the present-day transformation of urban and metropolitan landscapes and has published texts in France, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Director of the book collection Paraula i Paisatge (Word and Landscape, Àmbit editors), we can find amongst his recent work urBANALización: paisajes comunes, lugares globales (UrBAN(AL)isation: Common Landscapes, Global Places) Gustavo Gili, 2008 and Estratègies vers la ciutat de baixa densitat: de la contenció a la gestió (Strategies for the Low-Density City: From Containment to Management) Diputació de Barcelona, 2011).
Update: 2 July 2020
Contents
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
Local, local!
La ciutat que ve / La ciudad que viene
Architectures of Fear
Terrorism and the Future of Urbanism in the West
