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Naider

  • 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…

  • Abolitionist, or not?

    Fruit of the latest news of the newspaper “El Mundo” which recounts how José Blanco and Mariano Rajoy coincided in the last bullfight in Pontevedra and others in various media of a different nature, I have decided to dedicate a few lines to this matter since it seems that the debate continues to feed. The…

  • De-growth patterns – Innovations in urban mobility

    The economic crisis made ourselves reflect on how we could go so far in the excesses in the economy. Almost all economies have not escaped recession, and almost all have questioned with more or less severity their models of economic governance: the Anglo-Saxon system characterized by its liberalism, the more interventionist continental European, the Nordics…

  • Euskadi 2020-2030: Towards a low carbon economy

    The International Energy Agency forecasts that by 2020 the OPEC countries will reach the ceiling of their oil production . Non-cartel members have already done so. It was the journalist for the British newspaper The Guardian, George Monbiot, who managed, in an incisive interview conducted in December 2008, that IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol ,…

  • It was fun until the money ran out

    The title is borrowed from a late 2008 article in the architecture section of the New York Times ,It Was Fun Till the Money Ran Out, which in a few words and with great precision clearly marked how many urban projects have been dealt with in recent years and how only the crisis has been…

  • Towards a new pattern of growth – Urban transport as an example

    The great economic crisis makes us reflect on how we have been able to reach such excesses in the economy. Hardly any economy in the world has escaped recession, and almost all of them have questioned their models in a more or less severe way: the Anglo-Saxon system, the more interventionist European system, the state…