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  • Video: Creating public spaces for the common good

    What makes a public space attractive to citizens? Amanda Burden, director of the New York Department of Urban Planning between 2002 and 2013, speaks for TED Talks about the challenges she encountered in transforming spaces in the Big Apple and answers why creating attractive public spaces is the key to planning a great city.

  • 300 economists urge to end tax havens

    A group of over 300 economists from over 30 countries have submitted a open letter to world leaders advising that there is no economic justification for allowing tax havens and in the urging them to take meaningful steps to end offshore opacity. The brief argues that these tax jurisdictions do not add any value to…

  • The consultant and social researcher gonzalo moya is linked to naider

    Gonzalo Moya, a sociologist from the University of Deusto and a political scientist from the University of Salamanca, will collaborate with Naider in carrying out a territorial innovation strategy project, through Behargintza Erandio and the Hazilan program. Previously, he worked on the development of different projects at Deusto Social Innovation.

  • The Champs Elysées, without cars

    The Champs-Élysées in Paris, a great showcase of the French capital where 100,000 cars circulate daily, was reserved exclusively for pedestrians and cyclists yesterday, May 8, from 12:00 to 20:00, and the experience will be repeated from now on the first Sunday of each month. The Paris City Council’s Paris Respire initiative will implement the…

  • Saudi Arabia and its dependence on oil

    The drop in the price of a barrel of oil has seriously affected the economy of the large producers. As proof of this, Saudi Arabia, a country that obtains 90% of its income from the hydrocarbons business and which closed 2015 with a public deficit close to 15%. In this context, in which the payments…

  • 5 benchmark cities in urban innovation

    A panel of experts in urbanism, architecture and planning assembled by the Wall Street Journal answered the question of which cities currently stand out for their urban development policies. Among the participating experts is Edward Glaeser, Harvard economist author of “The Triumph of the Cities.” The panel has chosen five cities, clarifying that none of…

  • The end of the computer as a physical device

    Google believes that computers as physical devices will no longer accompany us in our daily lives. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces, in a letter addressed to the company’s shareholders, that “the next big step” will be the demise of the device concept itself. Instead, he points out that the computer will be a virtual “intelligent…

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    Main indicators of the Basque economy [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”6″ gal_title=”Naider Charts”]

  • Traffic lights to not look up from the mobile

    Many pedestrians walk our streets with their eyes fixed on their smartphone screen, even when crossing the sidewalk, putting themselves in danger due to their distraction. In view of the phenomenon, and as a result of the case of the death of a teenager run over by a tram, in the German city of Augsburg…

  • Video: Typographers on Asphalt

    This short documentary focuses on the little-known craft work of painting urban road markings. Tommy Lilley, Glasgow’s lead blue-collar worker, shares his delight in working on something he knows everyone will use.