Appropriate days to take stock. Twelve months that they have given to open new topics and insist on others. A time of resistance to the unappealable tide of social networks, which make any attempt to let things rest fleeting. A topic that I have not been able to avoid dealing with lately, almost like nostalgic sleeplessness from such a close past. A temptation I also fall intodispersing the information to others spaces, but with the conviction that the blog will always remain to be built slowly. 78 publications throughout the year, an exercise in resistance, almost all of which are organized in this year roundup post.

The research in this blog has been so extensive that it has navigated between two almost extreme shores: from the technological sophistication of the “topic of the year”, smart cities, to adaptive urbanism. The first topic has resulted in a complete series that, in such a short time, has become outdated but at least structured in a document:

From there, other notes arose for which a new report document is still pending. On this subject, things have evolved very quickly and since I started following it, some publications have appeared and, above all, some trends that I would like to systematize, which are almost noted in one of the posts to which I have dedicated the most time, The intelligence of the city is in the street:

As I said, at the other extreme is the exploration of where the city is headed in these times of crisis. 2009 and 2010 were times when the diagnosis of the crisis and how it began to affect urban environments appeared recurrently on the blog (for the most assiduous, remember that insistence on following Plan E and the two local stimulus plans). From that we have moved on to a first stage of cataloging solutions for the new times of the urban agenda, under the title of adaptive urbanism, which I would like to continue to explore next year:

A paragraph to rescue posts written with patience, trying to provide links and also own criteria on important issues but which, for one reason or another, I think have gone unnoticed. They are the forgotten posts that would deserve a reissue and that are also a reflection of other variants of the topics that will continue to occupy us:

There has also been a trace of some interventions in congresses and collaboration in books and publications:

There has also been time to read books, that little hobby, and also to leave some notes about them:

And finally, the compilations that always work well:

So, taking stock, another year that the blog has been a good tool to keep in touch with those who are on the other side and to organize ideas. The two things are enough to keep writing. we read each other