Regenerar el antiguo barrio industrial del Poblenou (Barcelona). ¿Hacia una ciudad post-COVID-19?

ABSTRACT

The aim of the article is to understand whether the measures contained in the strategic plan "Superilla Barcelona” can achieve an improvement of the former industrial neighborhood of Poblenou in Barcelona (Spain) under the paradigm of the post-COVID-19 city. For this purpose, a report on the transformations promoted by this plan and its qualitative evaluation has been carried out through three indicators for each of the axes of the post-pandemic city provided by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). These indicators are inclusive cities, green cities, and good urban governance. This paper aims to demonstrate the change of focus on the urban regeneration process in Poblenou, although these changes derive from actions planned before the pandemic. The pandemic outbreak has been a powerful catalyst for reinventing the way of making cities more socially inclusive, bikeable on bike lanes that did not exist before and with new public spaces where new forms of aggregation and transformation of the urban environment to be healthier. © 2022 Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved.