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The hour of non-expansive urbanism
It is not the first time that I am going to comment on it, but the landscape that we have left in the territory over the years continues to draw attention beyond the Pyrenees. In The waste of infrastructure in Spain, in the foreign media we have already highlighted some examples of reports in different…
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Building a company: where to start?
This week we have started a new business project, it is called Mobbitat, and it is currently just a dream in the heads of a few. Where do you start building a business? Business manuals are full of ways to do it: business models, economic-financial plans, process maps… Yes, we all know that, but: how…
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Objective: attract investment
How to attract foreign investment to a mature sector like the automotive? This is the question that we were asked at Invest in Spain and that we are trying to answer. The attraction of foreign investment continues to be a powerful vector of growth in Spain today and the objective of Invest in Spain is…
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Getting to know co-working spaces
Last week, we were visiting the Hub Madrid and knowing the activities that are carried out there, its work model, its dynamics… Hub Madrid is one of the best-known co-working spaces: an Anglo-Saxon word that refers to the activity of working together with others and that is normally used when we talk about spaces in…
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Post-crisis adaptive urbanism. urban gardens
Urban gardens are gaining increasing interest in recent times as a form of citizen occupation in different areas of the city and this was reported by La Vanguardia and El País a few weeks ago in two articles to thank the general disinterest of the traditional media in Spain for urban issues. The fact that…
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Bad news for quality content on the Internet
The news of the Rise in revenue for DemandMedia, best known exponent of Content Farm in the world has surprised many. Not surprisingly, Google had reacted to this threat by integrating algorithms to penalize to these so-called farms. It seems that Google’s attempts to reduce the popularity of DemandMedia’s content have not yielded the expected…
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Expensive electoral campaigns, not very creative and very far from the citizens
I guess we could talk long and hard about the effects of the electoral campaign on the intention of citizens to vote. From what the polls say, it seems that the influence on the vote is minimal. In other words, to change the voting intention of four clueless people, political parties invest huge amounts of…
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climate lobbies
It appears that Connie Hedegaard, European climate change commissioner , is concerned about the gas lobby in Europe. According to The Guardian< /a>, while the Climate Change Directorate is trying to go beyond 2020 to set binding emission reduction targets, the gas industry is trying to interfere in the emission reduction policy to introduce the…
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fragments and traces
I am doomed to write on the blog. It is, by far, the most practical thing I have found to organize my ideas, readings and proto-thoughts. So, even if they are killed, finished off and sentenced, this is where it will always be easier to find me and where the most obvious traces of where…
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Pasaia outer dock. More cement no thanks
The Gipuzkoa 2020-2030 Strategy, designed and promoted by After a three-year process in which hundreds of people and dozens of organizations have participated, the Strategic Office of the Provincial Council has made a clear commitment to moving towards the knowledge and innovation economy, an economy open to international markets, with a solid industrial base and…