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Is it possible to create a startup in a large company?
I started my professional career working for large companies. All of us who have ever worked in a multinational know what it means. Each process, however simple, involves a myriad of departments. When you work in a multinational, you can’t even update Windows on your computer without having to implement a complex decision-making system. There…
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Pastoral capitalism. The birth of technology parks
Things, most of the time, are not just because. But when they have been there, it is always difficult to stop and think about where they come from, why they are like that and how we got there. The same thing happens in urban functioning and the morphology of cities. The city, after all, is…
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What do we do in the meantime? For an adaptive urbanism
Via Javier Burón, Res Publica asked me for a contribution to the series of articles they are publishing on different views of the crisis and possible solutions. This is the textthat I wrote, which collects some of the ideas that are taking shape on the blog around the concept of adaptive cities. ———— The process…
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Sentient City. The future of urban space
Another reference book if you are into smart cities and collateral issues and don’t know where to start. If a few weeks ago it was the turn, finally, to talk about Everyware, by Adam Greenfield, today is this novelty, published a few months ago by MIT Press and edited by Mark Shepard (I discovered Shepard’s…
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Norway. Visualize migratory displacement
Another visualization. Even Westvang has developed a graphical representation, based on public data, that allows visualizing the housing changes of 300,000 Norwegians. The data is taken from data that, from our perspective, we do not understand is public, but in Norway it is: family income level, date of birth or age. Thanks to this, the…
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10,000 cabs in Manhattan
New York’s yellow cabs are one of the main symbols of the city. its trail is the trail of the city in motion, the flow of comings and goings of people moving in the city. How to understand that trace at a glance? Tom McKeogh, Eliza Montgomery and Juan F. Saldarriaga developed a visualization model…
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Innovating the life of my client
Is your client a dull and boring guy? Does he yawn when he hears your proposals? Does he even brag about your products or services? Perhaps it is time to apply a revolutionary method of innovation, it is not about process, product or business model innovation (for those enlightened on the subject), it is about…
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Parking and urban sprawl: an extreme example in Houston
Alex MacLean is a photographer specializing in aerial work and has produced series well known for their visual impact. The aerial perspective offers a scalar dimension of the territory that is difficult to capture, obviously, at street level. The images of Las Vegas in this series, for example, are very illustrative and have the captivating…
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Capital Area Food Bank: Hungry Hearts, Hungry Cities
Bruce Springsteen is one of the best-known artists in the American popular music culture. His song Hungry Heart was a hit back in 1980. Everybody wants to have a home, nobody wants to be alone, claims the song. That was probably what Lynn Brantley, who has been in charge of the Capital Area Food Bank,…
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Melbourne. Alleys exist too
Melbourne is one of the most recognized cities for its quality of vida, among other things due to its vibrant cultural life and the high quality of its public spaces and streets, at least in comparison with the typical image of urbanism in the North American tradition and which is so influential in Australia. I…