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Cities and citizens, not companies, ought to own the data produced in cities and should be able to use said data to improve public services and put their policies...
We are moving towards the digital city. Technology is often identified with progress. It depends on the use to which they are put. Data has become the main...
Sergio Fajardo
Not affiliated with any of the traditional parties, he became mayor of Medellín in 2004 leading a citizen movement and completely renewed a city that had entered a...
Judgements that the cité has ‘failed’ to open up are thus Janus-faced: one side of the coin shows angry populist prejudice, but on the other face can appear...
The change in era we’re currently experiencing is altering many of the values, conceptual schemes and balances upon which post-war Europe was built. The “Ciutat...
Although people know what they need and want, yet architecture spins into navel-gazing and drifts farther and farther from the possibility of substantive contribution...
Emancipatory political transformation doesn’t just require certain political and legal tools (such as well-established democratic institutions or certain material...
The large global metropolis embodies the spirit of our era, while small and medium-sized deindustrialized cities are sceptical about the future, with nostalgia for a...
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