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Barcelona requires us to fight against inequalities. Ecology and the challenge against climate change are the elements we want the municipality to work on, side by side with its citizens because what makes smart a city are people, not sensors. Therefore, we consider neighbourhoods as main…
Living better with sharing People gather in cities with different needs of services or interests while city’s resources, nowadays especially with the crisis, remain flat if not decreasing. It is time to be smart: to find a smart way to reduce this gap. The…
Connection and fostering of public (people’s) spacesInformationalMultiscalarComputationalEasy spread knowledgeSpatial Justice….
Advanced cities need a strategy to be the inspiration of the future but urban planning needs to be a fluid exercise, a “winding guide” implementation. The strategies need to have an adaptive DNA, if not they will not survive in…
Cities are not smart; it depends on how tech is used by citizens. Tech use should be questioned economically, ecologically and socially. Advanced city is more sensible to cities complexities and irregularities. Sometimes cities are not smart.Technological innovation is not…
Smart cities don’t only benefit the rich but also the poor- open data, open education, free flow of information allow for knowledge creation and new jobs.Smart cities are based on sensors.Smart is synonymous to efficiency and production.It is not about…
Cities are complex systems; tech can help but is not the cure.Investment in prototypes as ‘‘policy laboratories’’ or ‘‘Change Labs’’ can create the conditions for successful integration of different perspectives and knowledge sets, facilitating breakthroughs in complex problem domains through…
Turn off tech devices and enjoy serendipity. Turn on tech devices to be guided. Tech allows you to safely lose yourself.«Urban dérive » research project will be launched this year by ENSAM. “Urban dérive” is about analysing the city from…
This report presents innovative, critical and inter- trans-disciplinary pedagogies on Advanced Urbanism education that engage undergraduate and graduate students in activities such as case based cooperative learning, problem solving, experiential learning and the use of online interactive resources and simulations,…