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The expansion of the bicycle in Spanish cities
The bicycle finally seems to have its moment. This article in El País< /a> last week reviewed this “explosion”. During the last decades, environmental awareness and the awakening of sustainability policies have been creating the breeding ground to understand the necessary transformation of the urban mobility model. It has always been there as an option,…
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Invasion of the Red Cobblestone
Are all these really necessary? red cobblestones that invade our streets? How much do they cost us? Is now the best time to spend public money on paving stones? Is this how we solve the 5 million unemployed? In some places they are changing the cobblestones of one color for those of another. On the…
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Good ideas
Steven Berlin Johnson offers us an animated video based on his book Where the good ideas come from. The video solves in four minutes the basic doubts about how innovations arise, what is the spark of them… making it clear that innovation is a process that in many cases takes time. Photo: Chuck Coker under…
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Electoral state of emergency
Yesterday there was the first semifinal of the balonbildu electoral tournament between the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office against the Supreme and Constitutional Courts. Those of the Supreme won by a landslide although, surprisingly, the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office seemed to be more happy than the winners of the…
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The city as a work (and object) of art
Urban concentrations (their great expansion) are usually attractive for artists, especially when a large majority of them live there. Thinkers and intellectuals relapse into debating, explaining and even converting the urban fact into an artistic object. And without this being a brand new practice, its revival and reintroduction as an exhibition element, in museums, literary…
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Color cards. The biodiversity of the entrepreneur’s ecosystem
On a visit to the Technopolis in Helsinki its managers explained to me how they organized one of the most successful entrepreneurial events there. Although free entry was allowed, upon entering the room, the organizers asked all attendees a question: who are you? Based on their response, they were assigned a colored card to place…
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Oil, climate change and energy transition
The nuclear crisis open in Japan as a consequence of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11 marked a turning point in the international debate on this source of energy. It has been a very hard blow for the nuclear industry at a time when it thought it would improve its acceptance in public…
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Jan Gehl, the city of people. Janette Sadik-Khan, leadership to make it possible
Jan Gehl is one of the most recognized professionals in urban planning who seeks to give greater importance to public spaces in urban life and, in addition, has put his principles of sustainable urban planning into practice in different urban plans. His book, The humanization of public space, is the best synthesis of his ideas…
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Post-crisis adaptive urbanism. Empty lots as urban solar farms
The brownfields, unused urban spaces in urban centers, may have other uses in addition to their rearrangement for new industrial, commercial, public facilities or housing uses. As reported inThe Dirt , cities like Chicago, New York or Filadelfia have carried out projects for the reuse of urban voids by implanting solar farms of greater or…
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