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Emerging technologies in urban functioning. Promises and limits for urban sustainability
The Barcelona Provincial Council has just published a book (< strong>Rethinking urban policies. Notes for the urban agenda ) with the results and content developed in the course Rethinking urban policies 30 years later organized by the Menéndez Pelayo International University Consortium of Barcelona as part of its 2010 Autumn Courses, directed by Josep M….
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Adaptive urbanism. Rethinking the land dedicated to parking
It is not easy to access reliable statistics, but anyone who takes a little in-depth look at the city and the land occupation model will suspect that we dedicate a large part of the available land to paving it for a unique and inconstant use to deposit those appliances called cars. As an approximate figure,…
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Driving eco-innovation through crowdfunding
In addition to launching popular lawsuits against those responsible for the crisis, crowdfunding platforms (or crowdfunding) serve to promote interesting initiatives in the field of the environment. Reviewing the project portfolio of Kickstarters, one of the best-known platforms with the most content, Innovative projects can be found, in different stages of development, in the field…
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How can the US Improve its Policy Towards Latin America?
Despite its many challenges, the Latin America and Caribbean ( LAC) region has advanced and come a long way in recent years. Several of its countries are now middle-high income countries, aspiring to become major international economies. Therefore, the role of the United States in the LAC region has the potential to become that of…
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Entrepreneur: Better rich than king?
A few weeks ago, through the Newsletter of < a href="http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Ries, I was made aware of the existence of a study of interest to entrepreneurs carried out by e professor Noam Wasserman in his new book “The founder’s dilemmas: anticipating and avoiding the pitafalls that can sink a statue”. This study performs…
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Urbapps, now what? Contests, hackathons and urban mobile technologies
I keep counting some things fromUrbApps. I commented a few days ago that the orientation that we wanted to give at the launch wanted to avoid the competitive factor that some of the projects that are a reference for us have and that take the form of a contest. Without ruling out this possibility, which…
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UrbApps Valladolid: it is only the beginning
Last Saturday we celebrated the first of the activities that we want to develop from UrbApps. A workshop in Valladolid where we were able to meet people from the code world , design, urbanism and the environment, more or less. Themixture that we want to create of people and groups that see possibilities for social…
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V Course “Cities of the Future: from strategic planning to urban governance”
The University of Deusto, the Institute Tecnológico Superior de Monterrey and Bilbao Metropoli-30 organize the 5th Course “Cities of the Future: from strategic planning to urban governance”, which will take place from June 11 to 22 in Bilbao with the following objective: The course is oriented towards the analysis and knowledge of current methodologies in…
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KFC: Greenpeace’s new target
Among others things, Greenpeace is characterized by its aggressive denunciation and awareness campaigns. This time, the victim has been KFC, about whom he has produced aseries of audiovisual materials , as always with its acid note of humor, in the style of the recent campaigns created around the KitKat (Nestlé) or Barbie (Mattel) brands. The…
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The disruptive power of mobile applications in traditional commerce
The consumer market is continually becoming more sophisticated with new models of business in many cases supported by the use of information technologies: actors unknown a few years ago as Groupon,Groupalia, Letsbonus or BuyVIPthey are achieving significant business figures supported by a business model that allows them to carry promotions of interest to thousands or…