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Mobile applications as a loyalty and marketing tool
I just discovered two interesting mobile applications that demonstrate how technologies how augmented reality and interaction with the visual environment through QR codes are gradually reaching the average mobile user. On the one hand, the innovative advertising campaign of the Nissan Leaf< /a> in which we are invited to hunt Juke cars on the Internet…
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Ghost towns, from Spain to China
We have already talked a lot about ghost cities, sometimes trying to describe the causes and the consequenceson our territory, other times simply documenting some examples. These days a compilation of ghost cities in China has been published, a good photographic catalog of cities (or, better, fictional cities) that are part of the Chinese urban…
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Entrepreneurs 2.0 wanted
‘Here nobody wants to undertake, nobody wants risk. We all want to be civil servants and a job from 9 to 3’. Surely we have all witnessed, or even pronounced, these words at some time. But is this true? Are there a lack of entrepreneurs in Spain? Are there fewer entrepreneurs than in other parts…
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Understanding the agreements of the Cancun climate summit
The expectations placed on theCop Summit Denmark in 2009 (COP15) were very high and their failure called into question the capacity of the multilateral negotiation system sponsored by the United Nations. The international community arrived in the Mexican city with the clear awareness that another failure could definitively derail the multilateral process on climate change….
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Some conclusions of the Cancun Summit
Although the expectations placed on the Danish Summit of 2009 (COP15) last year were very high, the poor results obtained caused that with respect to the Cancun Summit (COP16) these expectations were lowered considerably. The Copenhagen Accord resulting from COP15, signed by 111 countries, did not mean any progress in terms of setting binding emission…
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CONAMA 2010, participation process during the elaboration of the Basque Climate Change Law
Last November 23 I had the opportunity to participate in the National Environment Congress presenting the participation process developed during the elaboration of the Basque Climate Change Law. I leave you with the presentation and some links of interest. Participation process basque climate change law conama november 23
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Materials for the course “Rethinking urban policies 30 years later”
On November 24, 25 and 26, 2010 The course “Rethinking urban policies 30 more years later” was held, directed by Joan Subirats and Josep M Montaner, and in which I participated in a round table on the role of technologies in cities (document,video and presentation) and also coordinating a session in which we used different…
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Baltimore, The Wire and David Harvey
One of the chapters of the book Megacities I was writing about a few days ago is entitled Spaces for utopia and is written by David Harvey. The introduction to that chapter includes just one page on the case of the city of Baltimore and reading those few lines gave me the feeling that I…
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Megacities. Exploring a Sustainable Future
Megacities is one of the latest editorial novelties of < a href="http://www.010.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">010 Publishers and focuses on one of the most characteristic phenomena of our time: the rise of a new urban scale, the megacities. A term with different edges and very prone to confusion but which, beyond the conceptual debate, explains some of…
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The silent urbanization of Africa
The Economist published a few a few days ago one of his Daily Charts, dedicated this time to visualizing the dimension of the growth of main cities in Africa, following data from the latest Habitat report State of African Cities 2010, Governance, Inequalities and Urban Land Market. The Guardian also posted his own visualization selecting…