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Friends for ever (amigos para siempre)

Friends for ever (amigos para siempre)Friends for ever (amigos para siempre)Leading Cities y The Smart City Journal expect to connecting cities around the world during a time when knowledge and best practices are of the upmost importance Leading Cities (www.leadinmgcities.org), an early pioneer in the global Smart City ecosystem, and The Smart City Journal (www.thesmartcityjournal.com),…
Klaus Weichel

Kaiserslautern- turning the crisis into new chances and preserving an everyday life

The past months have posed one fundamental question to all of us: How can we face the worst public health crisis known to our generation? The great pandemic Covid-19 put us all through very rough times and we are yet not aware of the health risk that is still existent. Nevertheless, the virus quarried many…
HMS

Much Talk of New Mobility; Little Talk of New Transit

Two new approaches to mobility can be combined to attract private automobile users onto public transit: Mobility as a Service coupled with targeted microsubsidies as shaped by public policy There are three key participants within passenger transportation systems. Public transportation authorities, commercial services providers, and users — i.e., employers and retailers. Each of these have…
Gema Igual Ortiz - Alcaldesa de Santander

Santander after COVID-19

It is now clear that the COVID-19 pandemic will have an impact on the urban configuration of cities. In this regard, Santander is no exception. We have some advantages, due to our positioning as an increasingly modern and sustainable city that is strengthened socially with urban environments centered around people. This promotes the use of…
Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, Alcalde de Logroño

Logroño adapts its mobility and urban space

The city (in La Rioja, Spain) adapts its mobility and urban space turning the health emergency into opportunity through its ‘Logroño Open Streets’ strategy Logroño has implemented a strategy through an emergency declaration in May aimed at regaining the space to respect social distancing in mobility through light, fast and inexpensive tactical urban planning actions…
José Luis Martínez-Almeida - Alcalde Madrid

MADRID, A BETTER CITY AFTER THE PANDEMIC

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…
Rita Dickson

Rita Dickson, new Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Ghana

She becomes the first-ever female to lead the science and technology university and takes over from Prof Kwasi Obiri Danso, who will soon bring his four-year term in office to an end Prof Obiri Danso would have served another two years had he put in a re-election bid. It was during his tenure that the…
Resilence

Why Should Cities Aim For Heat Resilience?

To figure out what strategy works best, cities can decide to assess precisely the thermal situation in order to define target areas to take action Just a few days to pass and the summer will be here! If you live in a large city, then your feelings are probably mixed between excitement for holidays and…
Maskenplanet

Maskenplanet: look me in the eye

A love story that becomes the meeting point for transparent trade in our protection against COVID I moved to Berlin this March to get contact to the unique Startup ecosystem in Berlin and develop my own business ideas in this dynamic place. After a few weeks living in this beautiful vibrant city – the world…
Network

750 cities, with The Smart City Journal

The platform is consolidated as a world leader in the sector, with news of the global fight against COVID in 60 cities in 15 days. The Smart City Journal, the official international platform, world leader in the sector, has wanted to collaborate with these cities, so their work and actions against the COVID 19 could…

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