The Smart City Journal has been an active partner in the Smart Cities Sofa Summit and now wants to bring some of the conclusions closer to our followers.

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It is evidence that the coronavirus has changed the lives of people and cities. That is why we start here a section in which the mayors of large and small cities explain to us how the design of their future is.

We started, with great pride, in Madrid, one of the cities hardest hit by the pandemic and in which its mayor, José Luis Martínez Almeida Navasqúes, has managed to confront the problem and generate hope for the future.

MADRID, A BETTER CITY AFTER THE PANDEMIC

José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés
Madrid Mayor

No one can boast of being prepared for a pandemic like the coronavirus. No big city was, and neither was Madrid. Our high population density, a thriving economy, our Madrid Barajas airport, that is the window open to the world, or our attractiveness as a tourist destination, have made Madrid a particularly punished place; turning these hallmarks... read more

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