The BBVA Innovation Center today published a video on its website made in partnership with the MIT Senseable City Lab as an advance release on its joint research on the use of information to create new urban services. The video covers purchasing movements in Spain over Easter Week of 2011. It shows the character of spending patterns of four categories of points of sale (fashion, bars and restaurants, food stores/supermarkets and gas stations) throughout the day across different Spanish regions and cities. Data will continue to be collected over the upcoming Easter Week 2012 with the aim of testing the predictive capacity of this kind of analysis.

A short animated video presenting statistics and future predictions about mobile technology.

This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.

Presentation by Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program. In Chicago, the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, in partnership with the London School of Economics, the Alfred Herrhausen Society, and TIME magazine, hosted Global Metro Summit 2010: Delivering the Next Economy, a program that unveiled a powerful vision for the post-recession economy that is export-oriented, low carbon, innovation-fueled, opportunity rich and ultimately led by metropolitan areas. Full event: http://bit.ly/hYSIwb