Visiting Planners #2 : Itziar González / Cartographic Institute of the Revolt

Visiting Planners is a new series of interviews and lectures on the research and practice of urban policy.
Five guests between May and June will conduct a series of two-day tours in Brno and Prague, where they will present their work in variously defined roles:

Itziar González / Institut Cartográfic de la Revolta
ex-councilor of the Old Town of Barcelona and now an activist

The lecture "Plan for Economic Activities at the Ground Floor of the City: Regulation of Threshold Space" will be translated from Spanish to Czech.


The Ground Floor Use Plan (Plan de uso) is a special urban planning tool used to regulate economic activities within the urban neighborhoods of Barcelona. The plan maintains permanent housing and accessible civic amenities even in the tourism-affected city center. The quality of the ground floor of all public and private buildings is understood by the city as a common interest of all its actors, and ways to moderate changes in its program are being sought. The plan limits economic activities that excessively burden the area and push housing out of centers.
Itziar González Virós (Barcelona, 1967) is a former councilor of the Barcelona district of the Old Town and now an urban activist.
As an elected local politician and urban planner, she advocated for the regulation of activities in residential neighborhoods heavily impacted by tourism, e.g. Plan de usos, and criticized its later liberalization. As a mediator, she creates methodologies for citizen participation in urban transformation projects in Catalonia and has experience in resolving conflicts between public administration and local communities as well as in participating in urban development processes. She is trained as an architect, having studied at the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Barcelona (ETSAB UPC), where she later taught at the Department of Architectural Composition. She is the president of the Civic Parliament and the founder of the Institute of Cartography of the Revolt.


Visiting Planners is a new series of interviews and lectures on the research and practice of urban policy. Five guests between May and June will conduct a series of two-day tours in Brno and Prague. They will present their work in variously defined roles.
The new lecture format is a collaboration of the organizing team PRAHA / Forum for Architecture and Media in Brno with the architecture gallery norma space in Prague. Curator: Maria Topolcanska / Fake Cities True Stories

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