The Biggest Fab City Prototype to Date 

 -  urbanNext,  January 9, 2018. 
 - 652 words. 
 - 000704 
<br/><br/> Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, Fab Lab Barcelona, IAAC, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Senseable Technologies, SPACE10, Technology and fabrication, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms 
<br/><br/>Architect’s role, Barcelona, Circular economy, Citizen’s role, Digital fabrication, Digital manufacture, Digital technologies, Ecological agencies, Ecological researches, Emergent technologies, Empowering society, Essay, Experimental Fabrications, Fab City, Fab Lab, Future cities, IAAC, Innovation, Local manufacture, Local production, Production, Prototype city, Responsive technologies, Spain, Sustainability, Technology, Urban Paradigms, Waste generation 
<br/><br/> An astonishing transformation is taking place in Barcelona’s former industrial district of Poblenou. The district was once rundown, just like so many other former industrial neighbourhoods in Western cities once manufacturing moved overseas. Today the neighbourhood has become a poster child for urban renewal through a bottom-up approach, creating an epicentre of technology and creativity—leading the Catalan paper Publico and other media to describe it as a mini Silicon Valley for sustainable industry. 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>2575-5374 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Architecture Technology Prototype Research Sustainability