I was invited to contribute to The Future of Home & the Built Environment, a report by UniCredit and NICA (National Innovation Centre for Ageing) as part of their longevity knowledge hub.
The report maps the transformations reshaping the built environment through four major trends, from co-living to climate resilience, exploring how cities, neighbourhoods, and homes can become active infrastructures for health and wellbeing across the life course.
My contribution appears in the Longevity Neighbourhoods In Action section, focused on Barcelona’s Superilla model. The piece traces how this urban strategy has reorganised mobility and reclaimed public space for people, integrating energy management, biodiversity, and social cohesion into a systemic response to the challenges of contemporary cities. It also examines the growing body of scientific evidence on the model’s public health benefits, air quality, noise reduction, active mobility, and mental health, while acknowledging the challenges that remain, particularly for vulnerable groups such as adolescents and older adults.
The report is available to download free of charge on the UniCredit website.
