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The 12 Best Hostels in Barcelona (Updated 2023)
If you're looking for a place to stay in Barcelona, here is a comprehensive list of the best hostels in the city! (2020)
Barcelona Budget Travel Guide (Updated 2023)
A comprehensive budget travel guide to Barcelona with tips on things to see, costs, ways to save, accommodation, and more. (2023)
Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs • TechCrunch
Big money for an HR startup targeting the little guys (2022)
The Business of Barcelona | The Generalist
The $5 billion football club is amidst a high-risk transformation. Its strategy reveals the tricky economics of running a sports franchise and the ... (2022)
4 ways to enjoy Barcelona during #EAIE2022 - Blog | EAIE
These four tips will help you fully experience Barcelona, the host city of the 2022 EAIE Conference and Exhibition. (2022)
Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat – TechCrunch
Spain is preparing to push forward with pro-startup legislation, having recently unveiled a big and bold transformation plan with the headline goal... (2021)
13 cities across Europe will be linked with new night train routes
European railway giants have announced a major upgrading of night rail services that will link thirteen cities across the continent. (2020)
World's 10 coolest neighborhoods in 2020, according to Time Out
According to Time Out, these are the world's 10 coolest neighbors for 2020 -- from Wedding in Berlin to Yarraville, Melbourne (2020)
I was stolen from, beaten up and swindled -- it was the best trip ever — CNN
Nearly 25 years ago, CNN Travel's Global Editor Barry Neild journeyed across Europe by train to Morocco with barely $100 in his pocket. Looking bac... (2020)
The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona | The New Yorker
In the tourist-clogged city, some locals see the service as a pestilence, Rebecca Mead writes. "Some twenty million tourists descend annually on... (2019)
Barcelona, Spain urban planning: a remarkable history of rebirth and transformation - Vox
How the city grew, from pre-Christian Romans to Cerdà to the 1992 Olympics. (2019)
Part5 - Barcelona, Spain’s urban plan: could superblocks work in the United States? - Vox
A few US cities, like Portland, Oregon, might have the infrastructure and civic will to follow in Barcelona’s footsteps. (2019)
Part4 - Barcelona and urban planning: the ultimate potential of superblocks - Vox
If the plan can survive politics, it can demonstrate how to create tight-knit urban communities. (2019)
Part3 - Barcelona is pushing out cars and putting in superblocks. Here are the 2 biggest challenges
The twin terrors of traffic and gentrification, and how they can be addressed. (2019)
Part2 - Barcelona, Spain, urban planning: what the city learned from the first superblocks - Vox
"It was amazing when they stopped the cars." (2019)
Part1 - Barcelona, Spain, urban planning: a city’s vision to dig out from cars - Vox
The city is creating a network of walkable, mixed-use "superblocks." (2019)
Superblocks: Barcelona’s radical urban plan to take back streets from cars - Vox
Introducing "superblocks." "In 2016, I wrote a brief story on “superblocks,” a hot new urban-planning idea out of Barcelona, Spain, that would r... (2019)
How FC Barcelona are preparing for the future of football - Financial Times
Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business,... (2019)
Badi gets $30M for AI-aided room rentals – TechCrunch
Should you let AI help you pick your roommates? Barcelona-based urban room rental startup Badi thinks so, and it’s just closed a $30M Series B fund... (2019)
Barcelona - Startup Ecosystem Hub | StartUs Magazine
You're considering launching your startup in the most exciting city in Southern Europe? Discover what Barcelona offers in this practical city guide! (2016)
Why Barcelona locals really hate tourists | The Independent
Imagine you’re walking down the street in the city you’ve been dying to visit for months, or even years. You’re in a good mood because you’re on ho... (2017)
The Catalan question continues to divide - In two minds || The Economist
VIC, A PROSPEROUS town of 43,000 people about 90 minutes north of Barcelona, is sometimes called “the capital of Catalan Catalonia”. Almost every b... (2018)
Spain’s democracy is about to turn 40. How well has it worn? - The Economist Special Report
The 40-year itch "MANY OF THE photos seem older than they are. In black and white, they show Spaniards wrapped in overcoats, the men with sidebu... (2018)
Lessons from Spain’s recovery after the euro crisis || The Economist
Taking the pain out of Spain "JUST six years ago Spain seemed to be the European Union’s biggest economic calamity, menacing the survival of the... (2018)
Taking Back Power: An Upstart Government Plans to Tokenize Energy - CoinDesk
“The plan is to incentivize solar power generation by circumventing rules inhibiting its adoption... trading is not with the utility company but be... (2018)
How to spend a year living abroad for $1,000 a month - WealthSimple
The steps you need to take to move to Spain for a work-free year - Business Insider "If you have aspirations to move abroad for a year, the Spa... (2018)
Barcelona’s Smart City Ecosystem - 2014 - MIT Technology Review
City Saves Money, Attracts Businesses with Smart City Strategy. A big investment in data-driven city management starts to pay off... (2018)
Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance | WIRED UK
“Now we have a big contract with Vodafone, and every month Vodafone has to give machine readable data to city hall. Before, that didn’t happen. The... (2018)
The Roots of the Catalan Independence Crisis
Foreign Affairs, 2017: "Putting this situation back in the hands of Catalan voters is the only feasible solution that could begin to address the r... (2017)
Barcelona SCAMS: Tips For Avoiding Crime and Pickpockets in Spain.
SUBSCRIBE FOR ALL MY TRAVEL ADVENTURES AND TIPS! On this week's episode, I show you the most common scams to look our for when visiting Barcelona, ... (2024)
Why Barcelona Looks Weird
I can be wrong, and I will be wrong. This is a video on the Cerdà Plan, which is the reason why there are so many octagons in the city of Barcelona... (2022)
Neymar: The transfer that changed football
Neymar: The transfer that changed footballThis story originally featured on the Beyond The Headline podcast: https://podfollow.com/beyond-the-headl... (2021)
Barcelona's $1.3bn debt
Barcelona’s $1.3bn debt. (2021)
Barcelona Microadventure - Hiking and Camping
I spoke at a conference in Barcelona recently. The client kindly put me up for the night in a very posh hotel. I enjoyed it very much! But I extend... (2018)
Documentary: Barcelona and the Trials of 21st Century Overtourism – Skift
Is the world ready for two billion travelers? This is the question we repeatedly ask ourselves as we wait in line at tourist attractions, watch entire (2017)
Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
Modern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians. Read ... (2018)
The biggest human tower ever seen
This is simply mind-blowing. More than 800 people made up this impressive 10 storey human tower. Terrassa, Barcelona. November 22nd, 2015. (2018)
La Sagrada Família - 99% Invisible
The line to enter Barcelona’s most famous church often stretches around the block. La Sagrada Família, designed by Antoni Gaudí, draws so many peop... (2019)