This very first number of Lux Barcelona includes a preface written by Ada Colau, as president of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), as well as an essay by Gemma Calvet about the value and the challenges of applied transparency, towards a demo­cracy of authenticity.

Public services of general or global interest are the basis of this number. They are approached from a transparency as well as from a good governance point of view. On the one hand, Isabel Baixeras details the transparency duties of the public service providers and bodies receiving public funds. On the other hand, Stefan Rating and Yolanda Martínez analyse the remunicipalisation options for services of general inte­rest, from a competition law perspective.

Lux Barcelona also includes four approaches that, under the heading "Lighthouse", encourage the reflection from a humanistic point of view. In this case,Natza Farré, Carles Casajuana, Llucia Ramis and Salvador Cardús are the lights guiding us. The magazine is complemented with photographs about the reality and the metropolitan policies by the renowned photographerKim Manresa and the graphic opinions by Jordi Duró.