05/08/2023
Spatial entropy to design the 15 minute city
Tne relationship between urban design and entropy has been intriguing me for some time. Basically, what I realized was that cities, as any...
17/07/2023
Beyond the Metropolis: Recognizing the Value of a Smart Rural Europe, by Jon Glasco
The development of Smart European Cities needs to happen in parallel to a Smart Rural Europe agenda. An estimated 70% of Europe’s land...
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 stewardship in local ecosystems” at...
Blog, open government, Talks and interviews
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 Mechelen (Belgium) to speak about Digitizing...
21/03/2023
Small Communities, Big Ideas: The Evolution of Three Smart Villages, by Jon Glasco
Megacities like Paris, London and New York capture smart city headlines in recent years, mainly because they are centers of economic,...
LIBRARY FOR CITY MAKERS
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...
04/05/2020
Jane Jacobs: Death and Life of Cities
Jane Jacobs's “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, her main book published in 1961,...
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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