Factoría Económica
Thursday, 22 March, 2012
@manufernandez
I recommend listening closely to this speech by Adam Greenfield, founder of Urbanscale and one of the people with the clearest ideas about the role technology can play in urban life. As a pioneer of urban computing, his book Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing -you can read a review I wrote some weeks ago- is a reference on ubiquitous computing and its presence i...
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Thursday, 24 March, 2011
@manufernandez
I have just completed a series of posts about the smart city reviewing the most significant elements: the conceptual confusion between its energy and environmental management approach and issues related to digitalapps and data, the role big companies are playing to market their urban technological solutions, new urban developments that are self-proclaimed smart city, the ability of...
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Territorios sostenibles
Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
It is likely you have heard about this project of building a new city from scratch to test new urban technologies, but no people will be living there. In fact, we first heard about it some months ago (I wrote some paragraphs linking this with my memories from Dead cities and other tales, by Mike Davis, in which he depicts the construction of a german town in Utah to test the destruction potential...
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Wednesday, 18 April, 2012
Some weeks ago I came across a great story in The Urban Country blog. The photograph shows the front cover of the San Francisco Call, headlining a demonstration of thousands of protesters -more than 100.000 according to the newspaper- who gathered to protest against what started to be an excessive presence of private cars in the streets of this Californian city. I am not an expert on critical mass...
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Construcción social
Monday, 9 April, 2012
Some months ago I wrote a few lines on Sustainability in austerity. How local governments can deliver during times of crisis, by Philip Monaghan, a book that covers some arguments not to use local budget constraints as an excuse to stop working on sustainability from local authorities. Now the author goes deeper into the role of local communities in resilience practices with How local resilience c...
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Monday, 26 March, 2012
@manufernandez
These lines will surely seem naive, but I cannot resist sharing them. In the face of the abundance of sophisticated promises surrounding the idea of the intelligent city, to offer up daily anecdotes as proof that the intelligent city goes beyond the idea of technology could appear frivolous.
Take the example of public transport. We strive to create solutions that provide...
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Noticias en medios
Is crowdfunding website Kickstarter a good way to redesign cities? Alexandra Lange thinks not....
According to a new market research report, the Smart City market is growing at an amazing pace,...
As the world urbanises and our lifestyles evolve, cities are getting bigger. And I'm not just...
The 21 winners of the Living Labs Global Award 2012 have been announced. The LLGA 2012 Awards...
The map, developed by researchers from MIT and the Technical University of Lisbon, can map data...
Paul Krugman analiza en su último libro "¡Acabad ya con esta crisis!" las causas y las posibles...
La tasa de paro ha aumentado en 1,59 puntos, 365.900 parados más, según los datos recién...
As cities become the primary human habitat, the reduction of waste becomes a key issue in...
The clustering of innovation is a key feature of knowledge economies and a powerful factor in...
The Council of Europe has launched a book entitled Local Government in Critical Times: Policies...
The first thing to note about Walk Score-the company that tracks the "walkability" of locations...
In a new book entitled "Social Innovation - Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets", centre...
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