Publication Title
Revista de Derecho Urbanístico y Medio Ambiente
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2015
Abstract
Barcelona is a leader in the smart cities movement, a movement that aims to help cities deliver services to citizens more efficiently and economically as a way of making the city a more inviting and inclusive place to live and work. As with any city committed to forward-looking economic, social, and urban development initiatives, it is important to consider whether ambitious goals to reinvent the city include an agenda to solve the persistent problems that have faced major cities for decades, including affordable housing and caring for roofless or homeless men and women. This article ties together the challenges Barcelona faces in responding to the needs of its roofless citizens with Barcelona's leadership in the global smart cities movement. The article describes the problems that Barcelona currently faces with roofless citizens, outlines the smart cities movement's goals, expounds Barcelona's smart cities initiatives, and examines how the smart cities movement offers opportunities for Barcelona to collaborate with peer cities internationally to create new and promising approaches to ending homelessness.
Recommended Citation
John Travis Marshall & Jessica Venegas, The Smart Cities Movement and Advancing the International Battle to Eliminate Homelessness - Barcelona as Test Case, Revista de derecho urbanístico y medio ambiente, Apr.-May 2015, at 177.
Institutional Repository Citation
John T. Marshall & Jessica Venegas,
The Smart Cities Movement and Advancing the International Battle to Eliminate Homelessness - Barcelona as Test Case,
Faculty Publications By Year
2000
(2015)
https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/faculty_pub/2000
Included in
Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, European Law Commons, Housing Law Commons, Land Use Law Commons, Law and Society Commons, Other Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration Commons, Property Law and Real Estate Commons, Public Administration Commons, Public Affairs Commons, Public Policy Commons, Social Policy Commons, Social Welfare Commons, Social Welfare Law Commons, Urban Studies Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons