The tactical urban planning of the Superblocks of Eixample district (Barcelona)
THE GRIDED URBAN MASTERPLAN OF ILDEFONS CERDÀ – THE BARCELONA ENGINEER AND URBAN PLANNER WHO DESIGNED AND REFORMED THE CITY OF BARCELONA WITH THE CERDÀ'S PLAN B...
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It’s time to digitally transform our cities, competition is coming
The digital transformation of our cities is the opportunity to maintain or increase their competitiveness in the world, their attraction of talent and their gen...
Brisbane’s Urban Forest Tower Aspires to Set the Benchmark for Green Urban Centers
A new wave of transformation is reinventing the cityscape. In densely populated and continuously expanding cities, space is in short supply and making way to gr...
Transport and urban mobility after Covid19 confinement
Eduard J Alvarez-Palau, professor of Master’s in Global Smart City Management, dedicates today’s post to innovative solutions in urban mobility after Covid19 an...
The current state of BIM implementation in Asia
BIM has become a transforming force in the construction industry that must be reckoned with. For today’s article, the lecturers of Master’s in Global BIM Manage...
Circular Economy as a Countermeasure to Climate Crisis
As you might remember, the COP25 marked by fraught negotiations in early December, didn’t manage to tackle the climate crisis. It’s in that context, that we tak...
What Makes an Innovation District Flourish?
For today’s post we found inspiration in a TEDx Talk by Ramon Gras, a researcher at Harvard and an expert in urban innovation. In what follows, we take a look i...
Knowledge As a Response to the Challenges of Urban Transformation Processes in Cities 4.0
We are going through a change of an era, a historical moment in which transformations alternate the living patterns of contemporary times, and the economic ...
IFC and BIM Interoperability
If you have entered the BIM world through Revit (Autodesk) like most of the people, you may have thought that the entire flow and life cycle of your business pr...
Blockchain and BIM for Construction
The cities of the future will be the result of how the human race transforms its ways of producing and consuming today. We can either ignore the signals regardi...
Can the Right Kind of Urban Planning Reduce Climate Change?
Many of us agree on that rapid urbanization increases climate risk and makes huge populations vulnerable to the effects of the climate change. However, instead ...
The Role of Water in European Cities
The participation of citizens is essential in the development of policies on water in European Smart Cities.
Importance of Engagement
One of the principal ob...