Engineers & Architects Blog
Smart Air Quality Management for Smart Cities
Every year, 7 million deaths are due to air pollution exposure. Undoubtedly a devastating fact, which, much to our regret, often goes unnoticed. But that is not...
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...
Keeping Track of Metro Tracks: European Transit Hubs at a Glance
In only one day, millions of people all over the world pass through a subway station to grab a train that carries them to their destination. Either it’s just fo...
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...
Lund Smart Road – The Next-Generation Solution for the Electrification of Transport
Today, we explore an interesting project from the South of Sweden, from the city of Lund, that is looking into building a visionary electric road to move past t...
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...
Urban development challenges in the Smart city strategy
Cities have become the physical structure of opportunities and challenges alike, from where we must act and react. We are presented with an opportunity to re-en...
How Economy 4.0 enables Smart Cities?
When embarking on a smart city journey, it’s important to have a global vision and strategy. Defining the number of bike lanes or a waste management policy come...
COVID-19, the example that reflects the need to invest in Smart Cities
On a battlefield, it’s not always the one who strikes first, who wins. You can start with loose fists, maintain resistance, and finally counterattack. And at th...
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...
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...