Urban Development Policy in Smart Cities
The fast and inevitable emergence of smart cities has a huge impact on urban development policy and urban planning. In this article, we go into detail about the...
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Smart City Series: Tampere Aspires to Be the Smartest of Them All
In today’s post, on our world tour of smart cities we disembark in Tampere, a city of approximately 235 000 inhabitants in Southern Finland, that has set an obj...
Smart City and Urbanization Challenges
As we are standing before the phenomenon of worldwide urbanization, we might ask ourselves if the urban areas really have space for an additional 2.5 billion ...
Smart City Series: Smart City Hamburg — A Look Inside the Visionary Bottom-up Initiative
Nowadays, cities don’t develop at the same pace as the challenges of urban life do. According to many experts, smart cities are the best strategy we have to com...
Social Dimension of Urban Development
We are living in a digital age of sound bites and buzzwords. Sometimes with all that information and technology at our disposal, it is easy to lose sight of wha...
Smart City Series: Mexican Smart Cities
The concept of smart city has ceased to be a technological fantasy and has evolved from fancy buzzword to our hope for a better future as the implementation of ...
Smart City Series: the Barcelona Experience
The concept of smart city has ceased to be a technological fantasy and has evolved from fancy buzzword to become our hope for a better future. During the mont...
Intelligent, Integrated and Sustainable Urban Development
It is not unreasonable to say that the 21st century is the century of cities as their renewed prominence is becoming more and more evident.
As all the availab...
GIS: technologies for spatial analysis and visualization
Geographic information systems (GIS) for spatial analysis have several uses in different research fields such as medicine, social and environmental sciences, an...
The status of BIM implementation in the Middle East
The Middle East is a unique market for BIM, and its use is expected to increase in the upcoming years. The Middle East is the iconic place where some of the mos...
Zigurat and its commitment to the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda
SIX YEARS LATER, AND WITH NINE YEARS LEFT IN THE PERIOD ESTABLISHED BY THE 2030 AGENDA, THE ZIGURAT GLOBAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE ITS COMMI...
Public procurement: boosting innovation and introducing new ideas
A huge flow of public funds is channelled through public procurement: a splendid opportunity to shape the market and offer the private sector a positive role in...