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  • Who killed the electric car?

    Who killed the electric car? (Who killed the electric car?) is an interesting documentary that recounts one of the biggest disagreements surprising between politicians, businessmen and the market in the race for sustainability and technological development. The documentary can be viewed with Spanish subtitles via Motorspain.com and Youtube and narrates how the various political, business…

  • The End: The agony of cultural infrastructures -private initiative- in the city

    He Here is an anecdote that gives us cause for deeper reflections and that, like everything we deal with in this Blog, we seek that its significance is sufficiently extrapolated to other cases (cities) and that therefore we are talking about “trends” . So, in this case, I am going to refer to the disappearance…

  • Zombie houses and urban voids

    The Wall Street Journal dedicates an article to one of the effects of the real estate crisis in Spain: the situation of abandonment in which thousands of houses and large urban developments that began to be built before the end of the party, and which will result in an inheritance of zombie houses affected by…

  • Urban economy trends in the configuration of cities

    As I mentioned a while ago, Belinda Tato fromUrban Ecosystem invited me to participate in a summer course organized by the International University de Andalucía titledCreative Urban Sustainability. The course is taking place this week and yesterday I had to speak yesterday to address the issue of competitiveness with a presentation entitled Urban economy trends…

  • MICINN promotes an Energy Research Alliance in Spain

    The Ministry of Science and Innovation is promoting a Energy Research Alliance in Spain an initiative that is strategic at a critical moment in the development of both emerging technologies and in the deployment of pilot projects in more mature technologies. Already in a previous article, “Clean Technologies : Playing to win? Demonstration can prevent…

  • Cultural Capital: cornerstone?

    Se He usually writes and cites the relevance of human capital as a key and essential factor for the proper functioning of economies, especially in times of economic crisis, and when we ask ourselves what we did wrong to be in difficult situations now. But, in addition to this factor, necessary for human development, and…

  • The tightrope investigation

    Spanish research dances today on the tightrope and although she was already used to circus pirouettes, the last wobbles can definitely take her to the ground. It all started with the economic crisis and the announcement of a reduction of the budget for science of around 15%. The Public Research Organizations (OPIs) were the hardest…

  • Innovation systems are geopositioned

    I discovered today that theCommunity of Madrid recently published, following in the wake of the city of Barcelona and its Map of Research and Innovation, yourInteractive Knowledge Map. We can assume that other regions will follow without much procrastination Beyond going into comparisons, after playing with the map of Madridmasdfor a while I have to…

  • The disinterest of traditional media in urban issues

    Financial Times has published an extraordinary and comprehensive special on the future of cities, with articles addressing trends urban centers, the discussion on urban centers and residential peripheries, urban regeneration, the new impetus for investment in transport and urban mobility, the relationship between urban life and community health, the emergence of a new urban democracy…

  • The dimensions of an urban world

    The magazine Foreign Policy has published its issue for the months of September and October and has dedicated it to the galloping process of urbanization at a global level, a topic to which we have dedicated space in this blog. The issue includes a new edition of the Global Cities Index< /a>, which tries to…