We have launched a new ATRAPA survey, reaching 2,000 residents across Barcelona and its metropolitan area. This comprehensive questionnaire aims to uncover detailed insights into public perceptions and responses regarding key sustainable urban transformation initiatives, including Superblocks, bike lanes, pedestrianizations, and protected school environments. With the data collection now complete -featuring 1,500 responses from Barcelona […]
WP1 of the ATRAPA project is in full swing, with data collection across the 7 project cities advancing in parallel. This part of the project focuses on collecting and preparing data to assess urban transformations across: Barcelona, Milan, Ljubljana, Warsaw, Utrecht, Malmö, and Paris (Figure 1). The main goal of WP1 is to build an […]
Workpackage 3 of the ATRAPA project has achieved significant progress, using Barcelona as a pilot case to examine how sustainable urban transformations affect political support for implementing parties. Two recent papers published by our team in Cities and in Environment International have analyzed this electoral dimension at the local level, employing a range of methods […]
In our ongoing efforts to understand public reactions to urban transformations, the ATRAPA project team has identified fears of gentrification as a key reason behind resistance to these changes. Adding to this exploration, Pablo Villar-Abeijon latest research offers new insights by directly investigating whether pedestrianization projects in Barcelona have led to signs of gentrification. Pablo’s […]