Jordi Borja, Barcelona Urban Planner and Member of the PSUC, Dies at 85
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The urban planner Jordi Borja died at the age of 85 this Friday in Barcelona, after a reference trajectory as a geographer, academic and political. He was key in the transformation and decentralization of the Catalan capital after the Franco dictatorship and has been a reference for several generations of politicians and left-wing thinkers, from Pasqual Maragall to Ada Colau. He published more than thirty books, was a professor in different univ…
Member of the PSUC since his youth, he was a deputy in the first legislature of the Parliament of Catalonia, as well as a deputy mayor under the terms of Serra and MaragallENTREVISTA - Jordi Borja: “In Catalonia, the social left goes far beyond the political left” Barcelona’s geographer, urbanist and politician Jordi Borja died at 85 years of age in the Catalan capital. Borja was a member of the PSUC, a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia duri…
Borja was a member of Parliament and deputy mayor of Barcelona City Council.
Member of the PSUC, was deputy in the Parliament and architect of the Municipal Charter of Barcelona
The geographer, urbanist and politician Jordi Borja, considered one of the referents of Barcelona urbanism and known for his critical thinking and his commitment to [...]
One of the great modern urban planners of Barcelona has died this Friday. He is Jordi Borja Sebastià (Barcelona, 1941), who has lost his life at the age of 85, after a long and prolific professional career, which combined his political involvement first in the PSUC and then in Iniciativa. Also a sociologist and politician, he always maintained his link with the trade union movement, where he participated from the Workers' Committees since the ti…
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