City Technology

Sharing Cities participation failure: The Digital Gap.
Truly Smart Cities, Sharing cities will be the ones using technology for building a new common decision cloud. We all know that humans tend to collaborate. What we use to forget is that cities were, by its very basis, born

Sharing Cities participation failure: The Digital Gap.
Truly Smart Cities, Sharing cities will be the ones using technology for building a new common decision cloud. We all know that humans tend to collaborate. What we use to forget is that cities were, by its very basis, born

The Adaptive & Morphogenetic City
In 1961 Jane Jacobs set the grounds of cities as complex problems, complexity generated by citizens and their mixed uses, decisions and life patterns. It is currently acknowledged that two major errors in urban planning approach have been made in

The Adaptive & Morphogenetic City
In 1961 Jane Jacobs set the grounds of cities as complex problems, complexity generated by citizens and their mixed uses, decisions and life patterns. It is currently acknowledged that two major errors in urban planning approach have been made in

Algorithmic regulations: Open Data and Code are politics.
Algorithmic Regulation is the worst nightmare for politicians these days. All of our relationships, with other people, environment, the city, enterprises and government are becoming digital. Policies based on this kind of regulation will be based on controlling the outcomes,

Algorithmic regulations: Open Data and Code are politics.
Algorithmic Regulation is the worst nightmare for politicians these days. All of our relationships, with other people, environment, the city, enterprises and government are becoming digital. Policies based on this kind of regulation will be based on controlling the outcomes,

Science of Cities: Michael Batty new coined scientific discipline
A new “Science of Cities” has been established by Prof. Michael Batty from University College of London coining the term in 2013. In his book, almost a manifesto, The new Science of Cities (MIT Press, Cambridge. MA, 2013), he argues

Science of Cities: Michael Batty new coined scientific discipline
A new “Science of Cities” has been established by Prof. Michael Batty from University College of London coining the term in 2013. In his book, almost a manifesto, The new Science of Cities (MIT Press, Cambridge. MA, 2013), he argues

Collaborative housing: Coliving, wihthout limits for the collaborative culture!
The idea of collaborative housing has been one of the latest contributions that the trend of “collaborative life” has proposed, coining the term Coliving. Especially in the United States, they have already emerged, a large group of associations and startups

Collaborative housing: Coliving, wihthout limits for the collaborative culture!
The idea of collaborative housing has been one of the latest contributions that the trend of “collaborative life” has proposed, coining the term Coliving. Especially in the United States, they have already emerged, a large group of associations and startups

Social evolutionary studies: Computational Anthropology or Science of Cities basis?
Social evolutionary studies are starting to be the very basis of some recently emerged new disciplines. Computational Anthropology as a new science is based on the Big Data obtained from location-based social networks using them for studying human patterns of

Social evolutionary studies: Computational Anthropology or Science of Cities basis?
Social evolutionary studies are starting to be the very basis of some recently emerged new disciplines. Computational Anthropology as a new science is based on the Big Data obtained from location-based social networks using them for studying human patterns of

Civic Tech vs. Smart Tech, defining a new approach to city collective design.
Civic Tech use to be considered the technology which power increases in proportion to the people participating in it, making possible, the collaborative creation of a common knowledge. The boundary between Civic Tech and Smart City citizen`s data monitorization (for

Civic Tech vs. Smart Tech, defining a new approach to city collective design.
Civic Tech use to be considered the technology which power increases in proportion to the people participating in it, making possible, the collaborative creation of a common knowledge. The boundary between Civic Tech and Smart City citizen`s data monitorization (for

Startups city based: talented citizen’s manpower.
As soon as technology made its final step to the human masses talented citizens have started to invest their effort in startups city based for empower city development technology based. This type of startups city business model based are developing

Startups city based: talented citizen’s manpower.
As soon as technology made its final step to the human masses talented citizens have started to invest their effort in startups city based for empower city development technology based. This type of startups city business model based are developing

Cities and Big Data: Social oil with an unknown future
Sharing Big Data will make our cities grow, but because of the implications of this change of paradigm, its consequences deserve deep study. A 2011 World Economic Forum report described consumer data as “the new oil” that will emerge to

Cities and Big Data: Social oil with an unknown future
Sharing Big Data will make our cities grow, but because of the implications of this change of paradigm, its consequences deserve deep study. A 2011 World Economic Forum report described consumer data as “the new oil” that will emerge to

Data City: the fourth utility city problem.
Data City design is based on the fourth utility: data grid circulatory systems. At the beginning of the 20th century General Motors leaded city design trends promoting cities for cars. At the beginning of 21st century Software Industry is leading city

Data City: the fourth utility city problem.
Data City design is based on the fourth utility: data grid circulatory systems. At the beginning of the 20th century General Motors leaded city design trends promoting cities for cars. At the beginning of 21st century Software Industry is leading city