THE RESILIENT STRATEGY FOR A METROPOLIS: BARCELONA
Guest Faculty: Ignasi Fontanals – Co Founder OptiCits.com
For the Barcelona City Council, the resilience has been the engine which drives the infrastructures construction during the Olympic project and the next ones. The fact that currently resilience was a trend topic put on value the vision of the Barcelona managers during the last 30 years.
Along 30 years Barcelona has demonstrated that the vector of urban resilience generates the best tools to manage a city considering all its complexity. It enables a crossed and interdependent vision of all infrastructures and urban services that promotes optimal design, efficient operation and security in front of crisis or impacts on the city. This vision is embodied in a Situation Room connected to all the possibilities currently offered by the information and communication technologies (ICT).