Lorena Perona

With a degree in Architecture and a master’s degree in Urban Planning, she is technical manager of the Urban Planning Department of the Provincial Council of Barcelona, the supra-municipal administration that provides technical and economic support to more than three hundred municipalities in the province. In the area of urban planning, her field of research is concerned with remedying the deficits of low-density residential developments. In her position as Head of Urban Strategies of the Urban Planning Department, she is responsible for the support given by the Provincial Council to local administration in the province in the forms of design, definition, and implementation of instruments for the regularisation, adaptation, and improvement of low density settlement in general and in housing settlements with urban deficits in particular.

She also represents the Urban Planning Department in the transversal corporate working group Entorno Urbano y Salud (Urban Environment and Health, winner of the European Public Sector Award (EPSA) in 2015) which aims to promote healthy urban environments. She is in charge of introducing health criteria into the urban planning of municipalities that seek support from the Provincial Council.

As well as publishing articles related with both areas, she has coordinated and participated in several conferences and educational events and, in particular, was director of the seminar “Les urbanitzacions amb dèficits. Els dèficits de les urbanitzacions” (Housing Developments with Deficits: Deficits of Housing Areas), which was held in 2022, as part of the programme of the Ernest Lluch Centre at the Menéndez Pelayo International University, Barcelona (CUIMPB).