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The laws of the city, more than mathematical models
They say that we could explain cities through certain physical and natural laws. Geoffrey West, For example, through one of those TED talks that inexplicably receive enormous attention due to its simplicity, he insists on the predictability of certain factors that could be common to any urban reality in terms of population growth, mobility, or…
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Startups and programmers in Spain
I read a few days ago the extraordinary article by David Bonilla in his blog entitled “The fallacy of the lost programmer”, a response to a previous article by Enrique Dans. In my opinion, the article by David Bonilla and the debate generated afterwards (read the comments) constitutes the best review I have read in…
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Detroit, when demolition becomes an option
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The Urbapps platform takes its first steps
What is the potential of mobile applications for the improvement of cities? From this simple question we have built the proposal of URBAPPS: an open collaboration platform for the construction of mobile applications for the city< /strong>. The concern to build Urbapps arises from the observation of the confluence of two important current trends: the…
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technology centers. A sector undergoing restructuring. Part I
Spanish technology centers are undergoing a major restructuring process and what seemed virtually impossible like the res or the processes of mergers and acquisitions of technology centers, It starts to look like something quite common (see here or < a href="http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CFYQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lavanguardia.com%2Feconomia%2F20120514% 2F54292830274%2Fcentros-tecnologicos-fusiones-crecer.html&ei=znDsT53HHYWv8QPSmJTdBQ&usg=AFQjCNG9YUFv4Ee1gYFBSfdXvJFhvu5xkw&sig2=GhBdsCe27a-doajj0kb5uQ" target="_blank">>” rel=”noopener>). Someone could argue that these processes are a direct consequence of…
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What to expect from the cities of the future?
Last week I It was time to close the V Course “Cities of the Future: from strategic planning to urban governance” organized by the University of Deusto, the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Monterrey and Bilbao Metropoli-30. I share here the document to conduct the exhibition, which was focused on three main axes: A few first…
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Questions and uncertainties
Reports commissioned by the Bank from Spain to two prestigious consulting companies (Roland Berger and Oliver Wyman) come to say that the Spanish situation is in line with the forecasts made by the IMF and is not as catastrophic as what could be expected based on the latest events. In the worst of the scenarios…
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10,000 million for education
It seems that in Europe we could agree to allocate up to 1% of GDP to a special plan to promote growth. It is undoubtedly a success that Europe is beginning to think about the real economy after a good time speculating on the monetary and financial economy. It is true that the amount sounds…
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Emerging technologies in urban functioning. Promises and limits for urban sustainability
The Barcelona Provincial Council has just published a book (< strong>Rethinking urban policies. Notes for the urban agenda ) with the results and content developed in the course Rethinking urban policies 30 years later organized by the Menéndez Pelayo International University Consortium of Barcelona as part of its 2010 Autumn Courses, directed by Josep M….
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Adaptive urbanism. Rethinking the land dedicated to parking
It is not easy to access reliable statistics, but anyone who takes a little in-depth look at the city and the land occupation model will suspect that we dedicate a large part of the available land to paving it for a unique and inconstant use to deposit those appliances called cars. As an approximate figure,…