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for the first time more than 100 billion music tracks have been streamed online in the uk in a single year. it comes at the end of a decade that saw many more of us abandoning the cd and embracing the digital streaming and downloads. colin paterson reports. # these are the moments that i'm going to remember most, yeah. oh, how a decade has changed how we consume music. 2010 started withjoe mcelderry‘s the climb at number one. at that stage, cd singles were being phased out, as paid—for downloads dominated. # there's always going to be another mountain # i'm always gonna wanna make it move... fast forward to the end of the decade. 2019, the first year in uk history when more than 100 billion tracks were streamed. # i was getting kinda used to being someone you loved... the most listened—to song, lewis capaldi's someone you loved, which was streamed more than 228 million times. that's the equivalent of every

person in the uk playing it three and a half times. there's been a huge shift from analogue and physical product through to streaming and digital, although we've reached a point now where we're enjoying the best of all worlds, where we tend to go online and we stream and 75% of us now stream for our day—to—day needs and access to music and discovery. sales of vinyl lps increased for a 12th consecutive year, with liam gallagher's why me? why not, topping the year—end charts, but to put that in context, it only shifted 29,000 copies on vinyl. # christmas time, christmas time, merry christmas. # and a happy new year... and then there's the cassette revival. sales have increased by 600% in the last three years, with acts such as robbie williams choosing to release on their favourite ‘80s format.

# so here it is, merry christmas... the rather large caveat — cassette sales account for 0.1% of overall recorded music. colin paterson, bbc news. now — what would a city designed by women look like? in the 1990s vienna did an urban revamp involving female architects. now barcelona is trying different ways to replicate this, with the input of the city's mayor, as well as local architects and organisations. cities are supposed to be built for all of us. men, women and children. we live, we move, we work, we play. we all have to share this space together. but they are not built by all of us. because most cities, if not all of them, are designed and built by men.

so half the population is deciding how all of us should live. what would a city look like if it were designed by women? we have come to barcelona to find out about a bold feminist experiment. can female—centric design change the way we experience a city? barcelona has a long history of reinventing itself with brave and adventurous urban design. over 6000 years, generation after generation of men have their mark on this city.

but now it is in the midst of a feminist takeover. four years ago, the city elected its first female mayor. ada colau has embarked on a profoundly feminist agenda. and she is not someone who could ever be accused of being conventional. before she was elected, she was an activist who fought against a spate of evictions in spain during the economic crisis.

she is not the only one working to put women at the centre. barcelona's feminist revolution involves everyone from writers to urban planners, architects, sociologists and all of those make up the fact that make fabric of this evolving city. to think about how a city might be different, if it were created by women, barcelona has been examining how men and women use the city differently. and that is something that sara ortiz and blanca valdivia have been obsessing about for over a decade. their collective, punt 6, has done deep research into how gender affects our experience of the city. and one thing they are particularly obsessed with is toilets.

research says that women spend three times as long, on average, in the toilet. and most of the time men can stand up. so in the same space you can fit more men's toilets. in theory, women's bathrooms should be at least three times the size.

this is only one of hundreds of ways that men and women experience a city differently. you're sitting at a bus stop waiting to get to work or get home from work and then this happens. and one of the most profound of those differences is how safe we feel, especially at night. conchi braojos works as a cleaner at a hospital on the outskirts of the city. in this area of high—rise apartments, the streets are deathly quiet. it is a 30 minute walk,

20 minutes if she is scared enough. she worked with punt 6 for months as part of a big project documenting the journeys of nightshift workers. punt 6 found that women were walking to work in the night because transport started too late. when they presented this to the authorities, they convinced them to start the bus schedule an hour earlier. that helped conchi for a while. and then the cleaning company changed her hours.

but it is notjust people who have to work that have the right to feel safe in the city at night. for over 100 years, la merce festival has been bringing citizens of barcelona of all ages together. but for women, partying into the night has always come with a certain risk. now barcelona is saying no to sleaze.

the town hall has launched a virulent campaign against sexual harassment and violence. and an important part of that is the anti—machismo stand.

the app launched in april and the idea is to create a map of where sexual assaults are happening so the city can stop them. years before the #metoo movement, barcelona was reclaiming the night for everyone. but making a city feminist is about a lot more than making women feel safe. it is also about making women feel seen. because if you think about it, like our history books, our cities are filled with images that celebrate the achievements of men. a study of seven of the world's big cities found that only 27.5% of street names were named after women. barcelona has been trying to fix that. the last government named half of the new streets after women. this mayor is pushing it even further, to 60%. that change is also being driven by the people of barcelona themselves.

these women are rewriting local history, celebrating the work of great ordinary citizens, their mothers and grandmothers. they have put up this plaque to mark a place where generations of women came to wash clothes. and representation is something that barcelona's mayor ada colau is passionate about as well.

what does that mean, to have this parity? do you think women do politics differently to men?

at the core of her feminist philosophy is participation. but she has been criticised for sitting on the fence when it comes to catalonian independence and for forming a coalition with the far right party in her second term. and the sincerity of herfeminism has also been questioned, especially by groups that represent low—paid workers, often women of colour and immigrants. this is a city that entertained 8.9

million tourists last year. and there is an invisible army of women who keep the hospitality industry going. cleaners. vani irana came to barcelona from peru 27 years ago. she wants hotels to carry a quality assurance stamp to show they treat cleaners fairly. but she says the mayor has not been supportive. redefining a city along a feminist philosophy,

where everybody‘s needs are considered equally, is about more than just security and services. it is about thinking how each of us is using space differently. because whether we realise it or not, from a very early age, the spaces we use are segregated. even playgrounds. equal saree is a group of three urban designers who wanted to make a playground for all children of equal access to space, so they asked everyone what they wanted.

how important was it that you spoke to the community? how important was that part of the process, speaking to parents and children? and the city is notjust thinking about kids, but also the people who look after them — carers.

like all cities, barcelona can only build upon the history

a history built by men. but in pushing for a new vision for the city, its new leaders might be taking inspiration from one of the region's most unique traditions. the castell.

janet sanz is barcelona's councillor of urbanism, and she wants to invert another traditional power structure. she is overseeing one of the city's most ambitious projects. it's called the superille, or superblock.

in almost every city, cars take up more space than any other road user. the idea of the superblocks is to reclaim the streets for pedestrians or for cyclists, or even just for hanging out. the plan takes nine blocks and forms one big superblock, which are closed off from through traffic. 0nly cars that need access are allowed in, and the speed limit is reduced to ten kilometres an hour. parked cars have to go underground. so instead of busyjunctions, you have parks, picnic benches, and play areas. so far, barcelona has built six of these, but the plan is to extend it to over 500.

the super blocks were designed by salvador rueda, but they have been implemented with gusto by this administration, who put theirfeminist philosophy of participation at the heart of it.

seeing what a city like barcelona would look like if it was designed and built by women is still just a fantasy. we can never undo thousands of years of male—centric design.

what do you think that you have achieved in five years, to make the experience of men and women more equal?

but what is happening here in barcelona is a small window into what it was designed by feminists. by people who believe everyone has the right to have a seat at the table. for more stories on what a future designed by women will look like, go to bbc.com/100women. hello there. it was a relatively quiet start to the new year weather—wise, wasn't it? but a change is likely through today, we are going to see some stronger winds and also some rain around as well. now, if i show you the pressure chart you will see exactly what i'm talking about. the wet weather starting to push into the north—west and plenty of isobars here, so that's where the strongest of the winds and the heaviest of

the rain is likely to be. now, these weather fronts are really just keeping the cold air for the moment at bay, but with that south—westerly feed at least it's a mild sort, so that blanket of cloud preventing those temperatures from falling too far. so a mild start to thursday, there will be some rain, some of it heavy as it moves through scotland and as one front clears away it will be replaced by yet another. so, by the middle of the afternoon it is going to be windy and often wet at times. the first front moves out of the scottish borders into north wales, ahead of it it will stay rather cloudy and grey, blustery, but the strongest of the winds with gusts in excess of 50—60 mph on exposed coasts into the far north—west. but, as i say, a south—westerly wind, double digits quite widely across the country. those fronts sweep their way south and east and so that's going to open the door to this cooler, fresher air, the isobars open up so by the time we get to friday slightly lighter winds but hopefully a little more sunshine around. early morning cloud and rainjust easing away from the far south—east and then it's a relatively dry, quiet afternoon for many, with just a scattering of showers in the far north—west,

some sunshine, but temperatures struggling for many to climb into double digits. so, 6—8 degrees in the north, 9 to maybe 11 if we're lucky in the south—east corner. as we move into the weekend, high—pressure is set to build from the south and that means that a relatively quiet story with the weather fronts toppling across the high, so maybe always the chance of a little more in the way of cloud and outbreaks of showery rain into the north—west, the best of the sunshine on saturday across england and wales. and again those temperature is struggling a little, 6—10 degrees at the very best. now, as we move out of saturday into sunday, it's almost a case of spot the difference but the wind direction changing once again. always the risk of a little more cloud the further north and west you are, the best of the drier, brighter weather into the east and we mightjust see temperatures peaking at around 9—11 degrees. then as we move out of the weekend into next week where most of us are set to go back to a proper week

of work, it looks like the north and west will stay blustery and wet, the best of the drier and brighter weather in the south and east. bye— bye.

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