100 Resilient Cities - Rockefeller Foundation

theatlanticcities:

“We wrote in late 2011 about some early research suggesting that many Twitter users in fact follow other people located within their same city, evidence, Richard Florida wrote, that the Internet is reinforcing the value of place instead of eliminating it.

But now that Twitter is a few years older – and considerably more global – Leetaru and several colleagues have conducted a massive new analysis of the site that suggests the opposite: ‘In effect,’ Leetrau says, ‘location plays a much lesser role now in terms of who we talk to, what we talk about, and where we get our information.’”

Read: How Twitter is Changing the Geography of Communication

(via theatlantic)

sunlightcities:

Watch how people move on public transit — brought to you by open data.

Ciudades a escala humana: Urbanismo adaptativo en un mientras tanto permanente

Como comenté, la semana pasada tuvo lugar el seminario Perspectivas y oportunidades de la ciudad construida en la sede de Valencia de la UIMP.

Ha sido un encuentro bien interesante centrado en cómo sacar partido al máximo de la ciudad que ya tenemos. Ante el fin del modelo expansivo, toca volver la mirada de una vez a los espacios, edificios y equipamientos que en la ciudad consolidada están esperando una activación posible. El centro de Valencia, la ciudad entera, es una buena muestra y, de hecho, los organizadores prepararon unos mapas a la entrada de la sede a modo de exposición representando los espacios sin uso en la ciudad. Muchos, demasiados. Pero, también, muchas posibilidades de desarrollar actividades en ellos. Pero como transmitieron muchos de los proyectos que formaron parte del seminario, sólo podrán ser realidad desde nuevas prácticas urbanas y nuevas formas de crear cercanía y relación entre la ciudadanía más próxima a estos espacios.

Work update - May 2013

Some quick notes on recent news.

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Confirmed agenda within the next months

SAN SEBASTIÁN. Workshop: How to create efficient structures to manage knowledge cities (May 28th ). Know Cities european project final conference
ROME. Human Smart Cities. Round table: Co-design for Social Creativity (May 29th). Forum PA/PERIPHÈRIA final conference

Latest talks:

New trends in urban economies in a permanent meanwhile (May 8th.). University of Valencia.
Urbanism as enabler of social transformations. Congress: Future of cities, accessibility and mobility (April 29th). Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, Granada
Temporary uses for vacant spaces: potentials and limitations. Workshop on temporary uses for vacant spaces (April 18th). Barcelona Province Council.
Financing and managing urban actions in the new local economic context (February 18th). Urban Environment Observatory. Málaga

COMMISSIONED PROJECTS

SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS BARCELONA. Supporting the Smart City Expo World Congress with contents and advice in their online communication strategy.
TABAKALERA INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY CULTURE CENTRE. Supporting a cultural institution to integrate the use of public spaces in their production and exhibition activities.
BARCELONA PROVINCE GOVERNMENT. A consultancy programme to help municipalities to put into practice activities on adaptive urbanism to reactivate abandoned sites and underused public facilities and private premises.

NEW PROSPECTS

Member of the STEERING COMMITTEE of the Smart City Exhibition Bologna 2013.
Member of the ADVISORY BOARD of URBAN IxD EU project.
Working on a proposal to launch a CIVIC MEDIA platform and its related activities.
Working on a proposal to curate an EXHIBITION on smart cities in daily life.
Member of the community of experts of LATERAL THINKING FACTORY.
Finding clients to develop a project to use open data mapping tool to build a local economic observatory with EIXOS.CAT.
Contributing writer for COMPARTE INNOVACIÓN by Philips.

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