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The waste of infrastructures in Spain, in the foreign media
A few days ago La Vanguardia echoed a very forceful investigative report by Le Monde on the Ciudad Real airport, which served as an excuse to analyze the waste of public money that in in recent years there have been in Spain. It is an example of the many that could be put (we already…
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Euskadi 2020-2030: The financial sustainability of the welfare state
With this article I end the series of forums intended to reflect on about some of the challenges we face in the long term, from the conviction that those countries and societies that come out of the crisis with a clear vision and strategic direction will leave with an important competitive advantage over the rest….
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Intervention in the course “Rethinking urban policies 30 years later”
The Menéndez Pelayo International University Consortium of Barcelona has organized within of his Autumn Courses a course of great interest,Rethinking urban policies 30 years later (24.26 November 2010), directed by Josep M. Montaner (Professor of Architectural Theory. Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and Joan Subirats (Professor of Political Science. Autonomous…
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Hungary and the memory of Doñana
The accident that took place in Hungary last Monday reminded us of the ecological disaster that occurred on April 25, 1998 in the province of Seville, when the containment dam of the decantation pond of a pyrite mine broke. Although on that occasion there were no human losses to be regretted, there were very serious…
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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…