University of California - Davis: Barcelona - Housing and Urbanism in Barcelona

Barcelona is hailed as a model of best practices for contemporary urbanism and innovative approaches to affordable housing and neighborhood regeneration. This program examines the relationship between urbanism, housing, and community development—looking at the city’s urban history, its planning models, housing policies, and redevelopment plans for low-income, working-class, and immigrant neighborhoods, and at emerging grass-roots approaches to community development. This is a unique opportunity to learn about a world-class city while experiencing its vital public spaces, architecture, cultural diversity, and its contradictions. Through daily field trips, lectures, and design projects, students will learn, synthesize, and apply their knowledge to actual public spaces and communities in this dynamic urban laboratory.