The content of this book represents a wide selec on of the plans and projects developed in the city of Barcelona in the period covering from the year 2011 to 2015, divided in types and thoroughly explained.

It features the lasts projects developed in the city of Barcelona, studied from different aspects of urban life. It also features more than 400 pages full with photographs, diagrams, maps and explanations of each project. ?We are working to make Barcelona a self-sucient city of productive neighbourhoods at a human speed, within a hyper-connected and zero-emissions metropolis?. --Vicente Guallart

Vicente Guallart works in the confluence of Architecture, artificial nature and technologies. Some of his more relevant projects are the Denia Mountain (reconstruction of an old quarry, in an environment that hold and old Arab castle, selected for the Venice Biennale 2004), 3 ports in the North of Taiwan that will improve the tourism in the island (winners of 2 international competitions), or the Sharing Tower in the neighborhood of la Torre (Valencia). He spent part of his time with research and educational projects as former director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC), in Barcelona, that holds an international postgraduate program on Architecture and Urbanism working in many scales from Bits to geography . In 2000 he co-directed with MIT s Media Lab and another research Center, the Media House Project, the prototype of an informational house, based for the first time, in distributed computation. He is author of the master Plan of the project Sociopolis, a housing project in Valencia that allows the urban development and the protection of the agriculture environment. He coordinates a group of international architects that will build different equipments and housing projects in this neighborhood. This project was shown in the Valencia Biennale, or the Architektur Zentrum in Vienna. It will be built for the year 2007. He is co-author of the Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture Actar, HiperCatalonia or Media House Project. The Korean publishing house DD dedicates the monograph Intelligent realities to his work. Actar publishing house is preparing his new book Media, Mountains and Architecture. He has given lectures in different Universities and Cities around the world as Princeton University, Upenn, Architectural Association, UCLA, MIT, Space (Seoul), Woodbury University, Taipei and others. His work has been exhibit in the Biennale di Venezia 2002, 2004 and 2008, Archilab, Gratz, and others. He is currently Chief Architect of the Barcelona City Council, Spain.