Format: 2012-05-24
Wednesday, 16 May, 2012 - 18:40

Bring research to the streets, not to cities without people

Center for Innovation Testing and Evaluation (CITE)
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 ...
Wednesday, 18 April, 2012 - 07:49

Fighting against private car invasion….in 1896

Great Bicycle Demonstration
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 1 ...
Thursday, 12 April, 2012 - 09:23

History of urbanism in the 20th century in 10 videos

The "video" tag in my Delicious keeps growing and has reached 275 references. I opened this tag to prepare an experiment of facilitating a discussion session in the course Repensar las políticas urban ...
Monday, 9 April, 2012 - 08:05

Local resilience for sustainable societies

Local resilience for sustainable societies
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 bud ...
Monday, 26 March, 2012 - 17:06

Daily scenes in an intelligent city

ateneo naider
@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 ...
Thursday, 22 March, 2012 - 18:30

The intelligence of a city is on the streets

The intelligence of a city is on the streets
@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 ...
Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 - 12:59

The time of the temporary city

THE LIDO (Southwark, Londres)
The process of territorial expansion we have experienced in the last two decades particularly in the years before the economic crisis is one of the elements that best contextualizes not only the cause ...
Tuesday, 14 February, 2012 - 15:18

Melbourne laneways. Every space matters

Melbourne
Melbourne is recognized as one of the most livable cities for its quality of life, specially for its vibrant cultural life and the high quality of its public spaces and streets. I was visiting this ci ...
Thursday, 15 December, 2011 - 14:12

10 examples of urban data visualization

binary
@manufernandez The complexity of cities (a diverse and always changing environment) produces a huge amount of data. The growing availability of tools to generate, capture, store, manage and analyze th ...
Monday, 25 April, 2011 - 15:16

Shaping urban infrastructures. Intermediaries and the governance of socio-technical networks

Shaping urban infrastructures. Intermediaries and the governance of socio-techni
This book presents a collection of essays related to urban infrastructures current state of transition, basically represented by the change from centralized to potentially decentralized, and from pass ...
Thursday, 24 March, 2011 - 16:14

A compilation of resources on smart cities

ciudades a escala humana
@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 a ...
Monday, 6 December, 2010 - 22:47

BIODIVERSITY and MDG: Searching for balance

Biodiversity @Stéfan (http://www.flickr.com/people/st3f4n/)
  The awareness in nature conservation is increasing, governments through the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) want to improve human welfare attending some of the principal endemic problems of ...
Tuesday, 2 November, 2010 - 19:06

A selection of 75 videos about cities and urban policies

videos about cities and urban policies
I wrote a few days ago about the seminar Rethinking urban policy 30 years later and what I am preparing for my presentation. One of these things has to do with the organization of a discussion session ...
Monday, 1 November, 2010 - 16:38

Nature´s special issue on science and cities

Nature science cities
Nature has published a special issue with different articles and interactive data visualization tools covering the relationship between science and cities. Some items are worth reading: Cities: the ...
Tuesday, 28 September, 2010 - 14:06

"The End": The decline of –private and community-led- cultural infrastructure in the city

ateneo naider
Here is an anecdote that would lead us to a deeper analysis. As everything we try to consider in this blog, we seek that its significance as something that is happening in many cities at the same time ...
Thursday, 2 September, 2010 - 18:07

Definitely, it is an urban world

Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy magazine has released its September-October issue and dedicated to rampant global urbanization process, including a new edition of the Global Cities Index, which tries to measure the po ...
Tuesday, 10 August, 2010 - 08:47

De-growth patterns – Innovations in urban mobility

ateneo naider
The economic crisis made ourselves reflect on how we could go so far in the excesses in the economy. Almost all economies have not escaped recession, and almost all have questioned with more or less s ...
Friday, 23 July, 2010 - 12:18

London 2012: Would they be "the Regeneration Games"?

David Hill writes on The Guardian about the debate erupted as London succeeded on the bid for the 2012 Olympics. "Will East Londoners be winners?" he asks, or in other words, How can we make the most ...
Tuesday, 20 July, 2010 - 14:55

Creative Industries and urban regeneration. Case study: The Old Truman Brewery in London

ateneo naider
IntroductionPromoting a Sustainable Economy, in terms of cities or regions able to spur economic dynamism and create jobs implies from a public sector policy perspective building a tight network of di ...
Monday, 5 July, 2010 - 12:11

Embarcadero (San Francisco), there was a highway and now ....

Embarcadero
Following Onesimo Flores´blog I discovered a video that can illustrate one of the most commented posts lately. In Hardware y software, un país lleno de autopistas vacías , one side topics was the poss ...

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