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The Happy Planet Index, another yardstick
“Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically…
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A selection of 75 videos about cities and urban policies
I wrote a few days ago about the seminar Rethinking urban policy 30 years later and what I am preparing for my presentation. One of these things has to do with the organization of a discussion session using audiovisual materials as an excuse to review the central issues in current urban policies. /naider.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2877787608_c17bee08bf.jpg” width=”280″ height=”400″…
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Live better with less energy
Here I copy my reflections on the energy policy of the Basque Country as reflected in the article on the Country from the day before. The deep oil crisis at the end of the 1970s made the saying “Even if you can, Spain can’t” become fashionable. Do you remember the radio and television campaigns? The…
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Uchrony of a crisis
A uchrony or counterfactual consists of take historical elements and build with them a literary reverie. In other words, it is about building a past that never existed taking certain historical elements as a base. Obviously this process can be done with love, with care, with a critical spirit and even with very bad temper….
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2010 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard: The large Spanish company reinforces its commitment to R&D
The table of industrial investments in R+ D of 2010(EU R&D Investment Scoreboard) lists the first 1,000 European companies and the 1,000 non-European companies with the highest investment in R&D in 2009 (The document is available at this link) This year, the Spanish case is especially surprising, which, in a clear environment of economic crisis,…
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Costs and benefits of the green economy
The world is moving inexorably towards green economy. Consequently and responsibly, the European Commission recognizes in the Europe 2020 Strategy the need for Europe to move in that direction. Becomes a resource efficient, sustainable and competitive economy, capitalizing on Europe’s leadership in the race to develop new processes and technologies, including green technologies, accelerating the…
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Nature addresses the relationship between cities and science
Nature dedicates a special in which it collects different articles and interactive data visualization works on the relations between science and the urban world. It includes some worthwhile articles such as: Cities: The urban equation< /a>, the presentation of the different contents of the special. Looking at the best cities for science (interactive graph): contains…
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United States: “Europe, are you going to accuse me of being racist?”
Joel Kotkin published a very interesting article this week. The headline, Who’s racist now?, sounds like sweet revenge, like resentment that Europe understands the United States unfairly. Basically, the author rebels against the traditional vision from old Europe of the conservative character and close to racism of the United States, and recalls the repercussion that…
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Collective intelligence: beyond crowdsourcing
Platforms or marketplaces for idea generation have been around for many years now in the market. Initially it was about tools, generally on the web, that allowed the gestation and identification of ideas. But today these tools are not only used to generate and manage ideas, but also help to make the best decisions about…
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Meanwhile. Recover inactive commercial markets for community uses
The effects of the crisis on the built spaces of the city are beginning to be more than visible. Among them, one has a special impact on urban life, the progressive closure of commercial premises at street level. Businesses that have not been able to withstand the drop in consumption or the difficulties in accessing…