Barcelona
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5.2KBarcelona Facing New Housing Problems, and Airbnb
Barcelona is facing increasing pressure on its housing market, primarily in rental prices. The Mediterranean city, which last year became the third...
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Barcelona Ready for Mobile World Congress
How does a city handle the world’s biggest technology conference? Barcelona will answer that question this coming week when it hosts the...
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4.4KBarcelona’s Illegal Street Vendors Form Union to Defend Their Rights
Illegal street vendors across Barcelona’s tourist districts last week created their own union to negotiate with city officials. New leftist Mayor Ada...
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2.3KBarcelona wins five more years of MWC despite new mayor wobble
There’s nothing like continuity. Today, the GSMA announced that the Mobile World Congress — the world’s largest gathering of all things mobile — had extended its...
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Barcelona, Not Pedestrian Smart
Every day I take a walk to our favorite bakery to buy fresh bread, and every day I have to side-step dozens...
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Smart Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona
Those elegant old Modernist lamp posts along Barcelona’s main shopping avenue, Passeig de Gràcia (Spanish: Paseo de Gracia), are about to become...
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Tourism: Barcelona’s Cautionary Tale
“This is not a city to live in. It’s a theme park like Prague or Venice where’s there’s no local life left.”...