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Vertical Farms: Plant Tomatoes in a Skyscraper
Dickson Despommier is a professor of Columbia University, which has been spreading the concept of vertical farms or vertical farming for years. In summary, these are buildings designed for agriculture, a kind of high-rise greenhouses in which each floor is dedicated to a specific type of crop. As Despommier puts it in this video, the…
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In an urban world the city dissolves
Fictional cities, fictional cities. Human constructions that use the term “city” to legitimize or humanize themselves, to appear to be what they are not, or to hide the absence of the values that correspond to the city. Manuel Saravia< /em> summarizes well these deceptions: city of the image, city of justice, city of golf, city…
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The war continues: content, networks and information technologies and their convergence
The war between the telecommunications sector, the media and information technologies, “almost a hundred years old”, continue to give sequels worthy of debate. And it all started when the markets began to nibble each other in what began to be called convergence. Who will win the battle? The contents have no value without networks that…
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Silicon Roundabout, technology-based urban economy
Silicon Valley< /strong> is the great myth, having a success story of wealth creation linked to the opportunities of new technologies. Who doesn’t want something like that? In Silicon Valley things also twisted with the crisis, but still working and other cities aspire to be the new global hub. The development of cities and the…
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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…