Urban Dunes. Metropolitan Beaches

Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), Contributors, Densities, Energy and sustainability, Formats, Low Density, Project, Public Space in Metropolitan Barcelona, Territory and mobility, Topics.

Active Public Spaces, Barcelona, Biodiversity, Climate change, Environmental protection, Greenery, Landscape, Living system, Metropolitan Barcelona, Metropolitan Planning, Natural connectors, Project, Regeneration, Sea Level Rise, Spain, Transformation, Waterfront.

The management of urban dunes has won the New European Bauhaus 2022 award in the “Reconnecting with nature” category.

Watch an interview with part of team talking about the project at Improving Metropolitan Beaches

Dune areas are the sand reservoir of beaches. They are spaces for biodiversity and buffers against storm surge. The construction and management of dunes responds to the need to ensure that metropolitan beaches continue to exist, that they do not disappear due to the effects of the sea and erosion.