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22@ Barcelona Innovation District

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Claims, one by one

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Claim 1 clm-8b32f5edc2466d55 quantitative
the 22@ plan rezoned roughly 200 hectares of industrial Poblenou into an innovation district
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What the mapping says
Metropolis: '22@ Barcelona district is located on two hundred hectares of former industrial land in the south-east of the city.' Smart Cities Dive: 'The Poblenou neighborhood in Sant Martí was ripe for redevelopment, with 200 hectares of privately owned land (approximately 250 city blocks).'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Metropolis — 'use: urban sustainability exchange' case study, 22@ Barcelona
  2. Smart Cities Dive — 'Case Study: 22@ Barcelona Innovation District'
Claim 2 clm-5d3d2d1280ce55c4 quantitative
a special infrastructure plan covered about 37 km of streets and laid fibre-optic telecommunications, waste-collection and electricity networks
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Metropolis: 'a Special Infrastructure Plan regulated urban transformation for 37 kilometers of streets. This plan also foresaw the constitution of several networks, among others fiber optic telecommunications, waste collection and electricity.' The peer-reviewed review adds that 'the district was equipped with fiber optics, a connection to pneumatic waste and spaces for climate control systems'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Metropolis — 'use: urban sustainability exchange' case study, 22@ Barcelona
  2. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)
Claim 3 clm-af3bc8987a5870be descriptive
the Districlima district heating-and-cooling system
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What the mapping says
Barcelona City Council's news page on the Districlima heating and cooling network, which serves 22@ and Poblenou and is to gain a further plant.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Barcelona City Council (Info Barcelona) — 'Districlima heating and cooling network...'
Claim 4 clm-f1ac3d8e8b1d4ff4 quantitative
Backed by more than €180 million in public funding
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What the mapping says
Metropolis: 'The project has received over €180m of public funding.'
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Metropolis — 'use: urban sustainability exchange' case study, 22@ Barcelona
Claim 5 clm-8ed68a85bb5223a1 descriptive
the district became Barcelona's Urban Lab: delimited areas where companies could test technologies later replicated elsewhere in the city
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The review: 'These elements created the optimal conditions for the development of Urban Lab projects, which were delimited areas allowing companies to test new technologies, later replicated in other areas of the city.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)
Claim 6 clm-c576db5103ee384b quantitative
of the 4,600 social housing units expected, 1,520 had been built by 2010 and 1,600 by December 2014 — eighty more units in four years
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What the mapping says
The review: 'regarding the 4600 social housing units expected, 1520 were already built in 2010, which increased to 1600 in December 2014 (+80 units)'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)
Claim 7 clm-a9c110dac6ac6715 quantitative
the share of land approved for transformation moved from 68.92% in December 2010 to 70.5% in December 2014
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What the mapping says
The review: 'by December 2010, 68.92% of the land was approved to be transformed, whereas in December 2014, the percentage increased to 70.5% (+1.58 percentage points)'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)
Claim 8 clm-baa0330f1ede8a78 quantitative
A sectoral real-estate study put 50.6% of the district's land as still pending complete transformation
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What the mapping says
The review: 'According to a sectoral study on the real estate market in the district, 50.6% of the land of the 22@ district is still pending to be completely transformed.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)
Claim 9 clm-62dc823d0bdc62d8 quantitative
400 companies moved into the district between 2007 and 2008, and only 61 between 2008 and 2009
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What the mapping says
The review: 'between 2007 and 2008, 400 companies moved into the district, whereas between 2008 and 2009 there were only 61 new companies.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)
Claim 10 clm-fc72612cbbfe22a5 quantitative
The housing and land figures come from the city's own 2016 report '10 Anys de 22@'
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What the mapping says
The review attributes those figures to reference [30], listed as 'de Barcelona, A. 10 Anys de 22@: El Districte de la Innovació; Ajuntament de Barcelona: Barcelona, Spain, 2016.'
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)
Claim 11 clm-1b5dc1b7d82b7ad7 quantitative
22@ put fibre, waste collection and district heating and cooling under 200 hectares of Poblenou, and that buried layer is what made the Urban Lab
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What the mapping says
The peer-reviewed review treats the buried services as the precondition for the Urban Lab projects; Metropolis records the 37 km infrastructure plan and the networks it constituted.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)
  2. Metropolis — 'use: urban sustainability exchange' case study, 22@ Barcelona
Claim 12 clm-0b7081a0a80439e7 quantitative
moved eighty social housing units in four years against a promise of 4,600
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What the mapping says
The review's figure: 1,520 units in 2010 rising to 1,600 in December 2014, against 4,600 expected.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020)

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Barcelona City Council / 22@Barcelona
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
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4 source dossiers

Gianoli & Palazzolo Henkes, 'The Evolution and Adaptive Governance of the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona', Urban Science 4(2):16 (MDPI, 2020) mdpi.com · 9 linked claims

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src-0028767c0c7fc154
Publisher
Name not classified · mdpi.com
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2020-04-11
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Peer-reviewed, published 11 April 2020: the district equipped with fibre optics, a connection to pneumatic waste and spaces for climate-control systems as the precondition for Urban Lab projects; the social-housing, land-transformation and company-arrival figures; and the attribution of the stall to the financial crisis.

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Metropolis — 'use: urban sustainability exchange' case study, 22@ Barcelona use.metropolis.org · 4 linked claims

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src-4588b161c39d01fb
Publisher
Name not classified · use.metropolis.org
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2015-09-22
Updated
2018-02-26
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2026-07-25
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2026-08-27
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Special Infrastructure Plan covering 37 km of streets and constituting fibre-optic telecommunications, waste-collection and electricity networks; over €180m of public funding; two hundred hectares of former industrial land, ongoing since 2000.

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Claims linked
Barcelona City Council (Info Barcelona) — 'Districlima heating and cooling network...' barcelona.cat · 1 linked claim

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src-93886b2d7359ccea
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Name not classified · barcelona.cat
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-11-03
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2026-08-27
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Districlima district heating and cooling serving 22@ and Poblenou, with a further plant announced for 2024-2025.

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Claims linked
Smart Cities Dive — 'Case Study: 22@ Barcelona Innovation District' smartcitiesdive.com · 1 linked claim

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src-3b462b8fbc901fb8
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Name not classified · smartcitiesdive.com
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Case study of the rezoning: 200 hectares of privately owned land, about 250 city blocks; by 2010 the district had 114,000 m² of new green space and 7,000 companies, businesses and shops. The page carries no publication date; the June 2011 dates in its text are the author's own access dates for cited works.

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