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The city as a work (and object) of art
Urban concentrations (their great expansion) are usually attractive for artists, especially when a large majority of them live there. Thinkers and intellectuals relapse into debating, explaining and even converting the urban fact into an artistic object. And without this being a brand new practice, its revival and reintroduction as an exhibition element, in museums, literary…
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Color cards. The biodiversity of the entrepreneur’s ecosystem
On a visit to the Technopolis in Helsinki its managers explained to me how they organized one of the most successful entrepreneurial events there. Although free entry was allowed, upon entering the room, the organizers asked all attendees a question: who are you? Based on their response, they were assigned a colored card to place…
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Oil, climate change and energy transition
The nuclear crisis open in Japan as a consequence of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11 marked a turning point in the international debate on this source of energy. It has been a very hard blow for the nuclear industry at a time when it thought it would improve its acceptance in public…
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Jan Gehl, the city of people. Janette Sadik-Khan, leadership to make it possible
Jan Gehl is one of the most recognized professionals in urban planning who seeks to give greater importance to public spaces in urban life and, in addition, has put his principles of sustainable urban planning into practice in different urban plans. His book, The humanization of public space, is the best synthesis of his ideas…
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Post-crisis adaptive urbanism. Empty lots as urban solar farms
The brownfields, unused urban spaces in urban centers, may have other uses in addition to their rearrangement for new industrial, commercial, public facilities or housing uses. As reported inThe Dirt , cities like Chicago, New York or Filadelfia have carried out projects for the reuse of urban voids by implanting solar farms of greater or…
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nuclear issues
The issue of nuclear energy is becoming more and more similar to religion. Either you believe or you don’t believe, a matter of faith. Faced with such a complex issue, and with so much information for and against, one sometimes has existential doubts about which side to position oneself on. More so when you see…
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Only China can think of a city of 260 million inhabitants
A few weeks ago they went out to plans to establish a large megapolis in China, the result of administrative unification and territorial development not yet urbanized, included in the area formed by the now large Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and including Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, came to light. Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing (Pearl…
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The 10 Commandments of a Technology Center in Trouble
I have a friend who says that in this life to survive the best thing is to be ugly like hitting God in Lent, which taste disgusting and smell like burnt horns. Of course he’s referring to those cute critters, whose charming appearance or coveted shiny skin has pushed them to the brink of extinction,…
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Is it difficult to innovate in companies?
In recent times I have received a large amount of information through different sources about the different methodologies to implement innovative processes in a company. Each one of the articles, posts or comments that I have read made business innovation a clearly complex system, which can only be unraveled through the multiple existing processes, approaches…