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The profitability of augmented reality for public services
The Augmented Realityencompasses technologies and devices that allow virtual information to be superimposed on real images, and in real time, so that a “mixed reality” is created that combines real and virtual elements. For those of us who are already a few years old, it is a more sophisticated and less violent version of the…
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Stories on paper
This year I had the opportunity to participate in an ambitious project that talks about the fragility of things, change and how to put different dreams on paper. I place you. We are in the Netherlands, at the Rhine river pass near the town of Renkum. So far it doesn’t say much, but I tell…
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The Ministry creates the distinction “Cities of Science and Innovation”
Published yesterday in Official State Gazette a initiative we talked about a while ago, the City of Science Award and the Innovation. Some time ago, when the State Fund for Employment and Local Sustainability 2010, we wrote about the role that the Ministry of Science and Innovation in said fund, trying to support, as far…
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Where have the funds to support the municipalities gone?
The Ministry of Territorial Policy has finally published a tool decent to follow up on the destination of the aid funds to the municipalities. This is public data information that until now was accessible but through a very little agile system to be able to carry out searches and have a broad vision and, in…
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The End: The decline of –private and community-led- cultural infrastructure in the city
Here is an anecdote that would lead us to a deeper analysis. As everything we try to consider in this blog, we seek that its significance as something that is happening in many cities at the same time would allow us to talk about ‘trends’ (urban trends). So I would like to refer today to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…