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Tracking the Smart City
Photo credits: Andrés Chiriboga“Smart City” is a highly desirable label to link it with the performance of a city anywhere in the world; but, at the moment of specifying its definition and scope, very diverse conceptualizations appear. The same is true when trying to...
In need for a comprehensive institutional reform in India: implementing a directly elected executive mayor with mayor-in-council system
Article 243W of the Indian Constitution. ”Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Legislature of a State may, by law, endow—(a) the Municipalities with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as institutions of...
The fourth industrial revolution
Put in the most elementary way: reform is a change in form; whereas, revolution implies a change in evolution. At this time, humanity has had to witness the rise of the so-called "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (or "Revolution 4.0"), a name that comes from the...
Prague’s Historical Public Transportation Preservation and Operation – a Functionally Integrated Approach
Introduction “Out with the old and in with the new” – a mantra that, in the past couple of years, numerous smart cities have become well acquainted with. Despite the numerous advantages that new infrastructure, technologies and services can contribute to the...
Digital nomads: a new global urban tribe
You can find them in Lisbon or in Buenos Aires, but also in places like Ubud (Bali-Indonesia) or Chiang Mai (Thailand). They can be found in more and more cities, living among us, although it is difficult for us to know how many they are, what type of relationship...
Triumph of the city
Photo credits: Jorge Amores Stadtluft macht frei. "The air of the city liberates." With this 11th-century German proverb, the father of Management, Peter Drucker (2002), summed up the process of urbanization on a global scale, which he anticipated early, and which he...
Alternative fuels: does zero emission vehicle truly exist? Or is mobility waiting for a miracle.
Many cities around the world are facing huge challenges with mobility. The main problems encountered are traffic jams and pollution and both are linked. Today I want to focus on the second point: pollution. And we have a designated culprit: thermal engines. Fossil...
Gurgaon – The Happening City
1. Statement of Problem: The city Gurugram falls in the National Capital region (NCR) and is adjacent to the country (India’s) capital city – the New Delhi. A quick review of the capital city indicates that it is now over populated, facing constant problems with...
Divonne-les-Bains: From Smart Mobility to Smart City
Many consider the already started digital age as the next Industrial Revolution. But considering all the impacts that the digital technologies and solutions might have on almost all the existing aspect and processes of the society, being the industrial, social,...
Is Moscow a Pioneer of Democratic Metropolitan Governance?
1. From the lectures, projects, and practices I learned and saw in Russia, what impressed me the most and why. Typically in a module, half the learning comes from experiencing the brief immersion in another culture. And in typical Russian fashion, I am left with a...
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