Cities and Sea
On 9 and 10 September, the CCCB is organising the “Cities and Sea” debates to discuss the great challenges that coastal cities, increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, will have to face in the coming decades.
Historically, coastal zones, with their wealth of resources, have attracted a good part of human populations. With more than half the world’s population currently living along shorelines, these small strips of the planet’s surface are strategic zones but also highly vulnerable as they concentrate many of the impacts of the climate emergency.
The “Cities and Sea” conferences, jointly organised by the CCCB and the IUAV University of Venice, aim to contribute to the debate on the present state of coastal cities, with particular attention to their urban spaces and practices that affect the estuarine, coastal, and maritime systems around them. With a programme that brings together local and international speakers, these discussions will offer historical, cultural, and scientific reflections on the relationship between land and sea, as well as a space for thinking about new ways of inhabiting these highly vulnerable areas.
“Cities and Sea”, is part of the Cultural Regatta, a programme of activities promoted by the Barcelona City Council on the occasion of the holding of the America’s Cup in the city. It is also a feature of the 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space, which has a special category this year in order to recognise the best public space interventions in the seafronts of European cities.
