Very close to my heart, Guanajuato is an ancient mining town that became part of the World Heritage. While it tends to be overcrowded with tourists and development in the surrounding areas has accelerated over the last couple of decades, its core is protected by UNESCO and preserves its ancient tunnels and streets as [...]
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The Global Cities Dialogue is a worldwide network of cities interested in creating an information society free of digital divide, based on sustainable development. Its General Assembly is taking place this week in Lyon, France with attendance of the French President Mr. N. Sarkozy. Also known as The Lyon Conference for Digital [...] Courtesy l@mie @ Flickr Villages are excellent at protecting ancient traditions. Where else would you find a group of seniors set up their fishing gear towards the end of the day to bring dinner home? Further to my post on the 2008 Global Cities Index, here is another snippet from the report ranking the best cities to get some culture based on things like sporting events, concurrence of travellers, variety of their culinary offerings, art installations and performances. London and the rest of the list. With the recent [...] In January of 2007 I posted the globalization index, a partnership between Foreign Policy magazine and A.T. Kearney. At the time the report listed the most globalized countries, led by Singapore, Switzerland and the United States. A few weeks ago I decided to once again fine tune the editorial line of this blog [...] We devoted an entire day to go around Lake Como, Italy. Varenna like almost every village around the lake is pressed between the lake and the mountains, creating an intimate space where strangers have no option but to cross paths. Front Seat, the organization that brough us Walk Score continues deploying tools to bring citizen participation to the web 2.0 era. This week they launched Obama Urban Policy, a forum where everyone can participate in recommending priorities for the first Office of Urban Policy for the United States. Getting involved early seems [...] |
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