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This study addresses urban vulnerability in the Barcelona metropolitan area. The first stage involved constructing an urban vulnerability index of metropolitan neighbourhoods to establish a hierarchical structure and carry out a longitudinal analysis for the period 2001-2011, identifying change and persistence within the index hierarchy. The second stage entailed conducting an explanatory analysis of the permanence of, and transition to, extreme vulnerability, focusing on the role of institutional thickness. A methodology new to urban studies was used that was based on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). The results showed persistent extreme vulnerability in the area and provided evidence that institutional thickness plays a complex and limited role in this phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to contribute to the debate on the gender impact of telework, using the home lockdown of the Catalonian population during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study. Specifically, men’s and women’s experiences and evaluations of remote work are analysed based on a survey on time-use during the lockdown conducted by the Centre Estudis Opinió. The results indicate that the experience of remote work, far from fostering co-responsibility in domestic and care work, further reinforced the gender gap in reproductive labour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]