Flying clunkers

Totally electric passenger cars have also arrived in Greece, although charging infrastructure is still limited. (In Bulgaria, proportionally, there are noticeably more charging points). It’s a matter of time – …

Shrewd cities

It is not easy to come up against 500,000 cameras and sensors in all public places; even if one wanted to. If the gift of this giga-panopticon is absolute security …

Step on it!

All right, we’ve grasped the plan: the future belongs to flying cars that will shatter every norm of urban planning, sever all ties with the glorious asphalt boulevards and urgently …

Dream city

Internationally they are called “smart cities.” But for Chinese President Xi Jinping, intelligence goes without saying… Thus he names the urban mega-project he is promoting the “city of dreams.” It …

Road? Everywhere!

Feeling on their backs the hot breath of the energy paradigm shift in the capitalist world— and thus their own petro-decline— and with nothing to do with the mountains of …

farmers in offices

What urban farming? That’s old news. Let’s go for office farming! The Japanese company Pasona group, which specializes in providing advice on personnel selection and management and work organization, offers …

Ehang 184

Our opinion (for years now!) that land-based transportation is obsolete, since it is limited to the two dimensions of the ground while there is an (capitalistically) untapped 3rd dimension (the …

smart cities

It’s not that strange that the prefix “smart” is starting to gain ground in our increasingly technological everyday life. If smartphones broke all sales records, why couldn’t the same happen …

Songdo

The city of Songdo, 65 km southwest of Seoul, was built from scratch and is considered a model city in the field of smart cities. The project, which has the …