Chaos and order in the contemporary city. The impact of urban spatial structure on population density and commuting distance in Barcelona, 1986-2001.

One of the criticisms leveled at the model of dispersed city found all over the world is its unarticulated, random, and undifferentiated nature. To check this idea in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, we estimated the impact of the urban spatial structure (CBD, subcenters and transportation infrastructures) over the population density and commuting distance. The results are unfavorable to the hypothesis of the increasing destructuring of cities given that the explanatory capacity of both functions improves over time, both when other control variables are not included and when they are included.

Ser catalans : una visió dels visitants de Barcelona... més enllà dels tòpics

Es tracta d'un treball en què s'analitzen les dades obtingudes de quatre entrevistes a estudiants estrangers que viuen a Barcelona sobre la seva visió de la catalanitat. També hi ha reflexions sobre quina visibilitat té la llengua catalana en aquest concepte d'identitat catalana.