Urban Development: The smart city project in Hamburg
Case Study and Q&A with Joe Hopper, founder of the Smart City Hamburg Project.
Smart City Hamburg is an initiative driven by the desire face the global cha...
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Engaging the public in smart city development
This article is written as a brief excerpt of a recent article written by Dr. Seth Asare Okyere, development planner and Assistant Professor at the Division of ...
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...
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...
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...
Reading the Minds of the Citizens: Ferrovial’s Methodology to Map the Hidden Needs
Wouldn’t we all like that the environment we live in would magically evolve and change for the better according to our needs? That’s exactly what the concept of...
Digital Transformation in the Construction Industry
For today’s post, we’ve gone over the masterclass that the director of Master’s in Global BIM Management for Infrastructure Projects, Issam el-Absi gave in Nove...
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...
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...
Urban Case Study: Barcelona
Barcelona is a great example of a Smart City under construction.
The City Council has created the Urban Habitat Department which will be leading the ...
Integration of formats and multi-criteria searches in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
The relevance of Geographic Information Systems, GIS, is constantly growing nowadays since they allow storing and processing of multiple formats. An equally si...