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  • A city without people is not an urban laboratory

    A few months ago I dedicated a few paragraphs to what at that time was just a project in its early stages: a urban laboratory without peoples in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Among other things, we have already seen that these mega-scenarios are not unknown in history. Now we know a little…

  • Highways, information?

    I recently had the opportunity to read a article, in newsprint, about the protests of the #novullpagarr movement and the “warning call” that the government has made regarding thepossibility of establishing payment on certain highwayswith the objective of sustaining the maintenance of the roads. Among the data, opinions and interpretations that were provided, I was…

  • The civic value of mobile applications

    As this is the first edition of < a href="https://naider.com/blog/manu-fernandez/urbapps-applications-m%C3%B3viles-to-improve-the-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">URBAPPS, we want to start openly and surely in later sessions we can focus more (on topics and technologies), but always working on applications for the sustainability of the city in broad terms. It is about addressing the civic mobilization capacity that mobile device…

  • 7,000 million euros for startups

    7 billion for startups You already know the quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This famous phrase from Einstein could well summarize in broad strokes the solutions that political power is providing to “re-found capitalism”. Basically, putting money back in the hands of those who squandered…

  • Assimilate Cultural Biodiversity to understand Natural Biodiversity

    The last great reservoirs of biodiversity on the planet are linked to Ancient tribes, for years, many years, have taken care of their nature and their diversity, keeping them intact over time. They have wisely integrated human existence, in a harmonious synergy with their lands. The great biological diversity that they manage is not indistinct…

  • Innovation dilemmas: generation versus selection of ideas

    Google has generated dozens of products but have they all been them a resounding success? Nothing could be further from the truth: see the list of products abandoned by Google. Even the best companies in the world have difficulty selecting ideas to bring to market… Although it is necessary for companies to encourage the generation…

  • precipitated deaths

    Last week, and after the success achieved, re -they broadcast on La 2 the documentary “Buy, throw, buy” that explains how the The non-durability of things is not a random component or the result of our bad luck. Among other things, it reveals how electrical appliances, mobile phones, pantyhose, ipods, computers and other objects that…

  • Kampala, the city of the future

    The space exploration work that the various agencies (NASA, ESA, Russian Federal Space Agency, etc.) make public often offers striking images. The night photos us they show territories expanded in a surprising way, forming mega-regions whose scale is difficult to observe from the daily perspective with which we live. And when these images are comparable…

  • Parking in a world of cheap oil

    The backstory about this photo is complex and it has more to do with baseball, the purchase of a team for a high price and the plans of the new owners to do more than just manage a professional baseball team. An uninteresting story from that point of view. What impresses is the photo. It…

  • Fighting against private car invasion….in 1896

    Some weeks ago I came across a great story in < a href="http://www.theurbancountry.com/2011/07/roads-werent-built-for-cars.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Urban Country blog. The photograph shows the front cover of the San Francisco Call, headlining a demonstration of thousands of protesters -more than 100,000 according to the newspaper- who gathered to protest against what started to be an excessive presence…