Towards a healthier, happier, eco-effective Barcelona

[Duncan O'Cruadhlaoich]

Towards a healthier, happier, eco-effective Barcelona is a recent 9 page A4 PDF paper prepared by EIG on eco urbanism proposals for the city of Barcelona.

The Paper is an appendix to a White Paper delivered by EIG, July 2008.

Themes of Paper:

- Urban Greening systems : page 2
“Buildings as Trees, Cities as Forests”: 2 slides

- Urban Greening systems: page 3
Infrastructure and Participation + Botanic Spine

- What are greenways? page 4

- CPULs - Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes page 5

- Edible cities, Middlesborough, UK page 6

- 9 simple, immediate, intelligent steps for a page 7
healthier, happier, eco-effective Barcelona.

- Reworking the Building and the Block page 8
to make Barcelona a model urban city once again.

- Via Verde BCN: A series of greenway ripples, page 9
radiating out from the green heart of the city.

1 of the many images:
The file is currently held in WISER Earth, a free tool/ communication space/ wiki for eco and social movements, their mission:

Toward a Just and Sustainable World Created by Community

[Duncan O'Cruadhlaoich]

other blog post found here
article in todays La Vanguardia about how BCN´s rivers are seeing life emerge again