"Cities in Transit. Rethinking to Regenerate" Exhibition
15 September 2026 – 8 January 2027 · 09:00
Sala d'Exposicions, la Dreta de l'Eixample, Eixample
The exhibition Cities in transit. Rethinking to regenerate presents urban revitalisation strategies in five medium-sized Catalan cities — Valls, Berga, Tremp, Balaguer and Palamós — focused on renovating obsolete historic centres and on key transformations of public space. Today around 80 per cent of Europe's population lives in cities. Europe is thus a polycentric system in which cities relate to and complement one another, contributing to the development of the territory as a whole. Within this system, medium-sized cities play a key role as links between large metropolises and rural areas. They are centres of services, economic activity and social cohesion serving a wide surrounding area. Beyond their size, they are defined by the function they perform and by their capacity to structure the territory and connect people, activities and landscapes. Over the past century these cities in Catalonia have undergone major transformation as a result of the country's social and economic change. In that process, some of the spaces that historically structured urban life have lost vitality and today face the challenge of adapting to the needs and ways of living of contemporary society. At…
Part of the programme: Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026. See the 43 activities in this programme in Barcelona, from September 5 to November 23.
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 2 November 2026