Urban policy in Barcelona: what they make us believe, but we do not believe.

Abstract

Urban policies undoubtedly play a key role in addressing the current problems afflicting the world's population, considering that it is heavily concentrated in cities. Placing look at the reality of Barcelona and its major urban reforms, it is suggested here a reflection on the impacts of urban model in the lives of its inhabitants, leaving raised some questions such as what is the real city that extends around Barcelona offered internationally as a paradigm of growth and organization, is it sustainable growth model promoted by the administration, how its people actually live and how it has affected this model in your daily life? In the following paragraphs, this reflection will be developed considering three interlinked issues: the preeminence of a commodified view of the city, understood as an economic space, the imposition of urban solutions in line with this logic and the discursive use of concepts such as sustainability or participation to legitimize urban projects of great social and environmental impact