Fractional Ownership of the Skyline: The Hyper-Financialization of Smart Real Estate
Is it possible to invest in an iconic building without buying an entire property? Blockchain-based real estate tokenization makes this possible by converting properties into digital shares, making it easier to diversify and manage investments. However, this model also presents regulatory, liquidity, technological and platform solvency challenges.
Decentralized Energy Grids: When Neighborhoods Share Power
A decentralized grid turns a neighborhood into an autonomous and secure energy system capable of generating, storing, and sharing some of the electricity it needs. By bringing production closer to where energy is consumed, it enables demand to be managed intelligently, makes better use of renewable energy, and provides greater flexibility in responding to consumption peaks or power outages.
Kamikatsu: Why zero waste is about more than recycling
Kamikatsu recycles nearly 80% of its waste without high-tech plants. Discover how citizen participation and civic design, not just tech, make it work.
Smart Urban Hospitality: Why the cities of the future will be designed around experience
Discover how Smart Urban Hospitality is redefining cities, focusing on how urban spaces welcome, guide, support, and care for everyone who moves through them.
Concular: When buildings stop being waste and become material banks
Concular reimagines buildings as the start of materials’ next life, creating a new circular infrastructure for more sustainable urban development.
Living Concrete — How the use of microorganisms can revolutionize city building
Living concrete is a sustainable building material with many benefits. What is and how it could change the construction industry?
Digital Twins vs. Citizen Privacy: Finding the Right Balance in Urban Planning
One of the main factors shaping the present and future of cities is technology and its increasingly invisible integration into urban development. Nothing captures this better than digital twins, a fundamental component of smart cities’ IT infrastructure and one of the most valuable tools for urban planning, but also one that raises questions and concerns among citizens.
Vertiports and Urban Air Mobility: When the Sky Becomes Part of the City
Just as railway stations transformed mobility in the 19th century, urban air mobility and vertiports could become defining elements of tomorrow’s cities. But are we ready to accommodate them?
Beating the Heat: How Tech and Nature-Based Solutions are Cooling Down Europe’s Cities
According to the latest measurements, Europe is warming faster than other parts of the world. The global average temperature has increased by approximately 0.27°C per decade over the past 30 years. However, temperatures in Europe have risen by approximately 0.56°C per decade since the mid-1990s, meaning that temperatures have increased at more than twice the global average rate.
Is there any sense in having wind turbines in cities?
Can wind turbines be used in cities? We tell you all about the benefits and advantages of this cheap energy. How and when could it be implemented?