06/01/2025
Jane Jacobs hypothetical interview on the 15-minute city.
By Jon Glasco and ChatGPT. If Jane Jacobs was alive today and actively engaging with the smart city community, her sharp critique of urban...
27/12/2024
Smart Moves: Montpellier’s Strategy for Sustainable Urban Transport
By Jon Glasco. Montpellier, one of France’s fastest-growing cities and host of one of Europe’s largest pedestrian areas, is...
Blog, Book reviews, Technology
20/11/2024
Daniel Susskind. A World Without Work
From a refreshing trip to Scotland this summer I brought back, among other things, a visit to two great bookshops: the indescribable Leakey...
24/08/2024
Why smart cities need pre-disaster recovery plans
By Jon Glasco. In 2023, the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in more than a century devastated Lahaina, a small town on the island of Maui in...
19/07/2024
After the Storm: A Winding Road to Disaster Recovery
By Jon Glasco. Considering the frequency of disasters and the scale of human suffering and economic loss, the urgency of effective disaster...
LIBRARY FOR CITY MAKERS
20/11/2024
Daniel Susskind. A World Without Work
From a refreshing trip to Scotland this summer I brought back, among other things, a visit to two...
22/02/2023
Kevin Lynch. The Image Of The City
Kevin Lynch’s “The Image of the City” is a seminal work in urban design that...
04/01/2021
Daniel Kahneman. Thinking Fast and Slow: some thoughts from Córdoba
Kahneman shows that if potential earnings are bigger than potential losses then the most rational...
26/09/2020
Marshall McLuhan. Understanding media (and cities)
McLuhan explains why the rise of urban middle classes are more effective to defeat dictatorships...
26/08/2020
William Mitchell “E-topia…”: smart, green and lean cities
The book by William Mitchell "E-topia. Urban life, Jim – but not as we know it” was one of the...
LAST TALKS & INTERVIEWS
22/05/2023
Making the most of data: supporting data stewardship in local ecosystems
On Tuesday, 23rd May 2023, I chair the webinar “Making the most of data: supporting data...
17/04/2023
Digitizing Government Ecosystems. De Klik Met De Burger. March, 28th 2023. Mechelen (Belgium)
On March, 28th 2023 I was invited as a keynote speaker at the De Klik Met De Burger event in...
08/12/2022
Democratic co-production of sustainable public services. Rome. Dec, 14th 2022
Democratic co-production of sustainable public services is an event related to the Interlink...
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