Open source urban planning for augmented citizens

Open source urban planning fas to be understood not as focusing on physical aspects of cities, but as approaching their transformation by understanding the behaviours and the social processes of the citizens and exploring alternatives to reconciliate them with physical realities designed in response to former social structures ans ways of life

Urbanismo de código abierto para una ciudadanía aumentada

Entendemos por "urbanismo de código abierto" aquel que, no centrándose sobre la dimensión física de la ciudad, aborda su transformación a través del entendimiento de los comportamientos y los procesos sociales de sus integrantes, explorando maneras alternativas de reconciliarnos con una realidad física concebida para dar respuesta a estructuras sociales y modos de vida de épocas pasadas

EU GPP Criteria for Public Spaces Maintenance - Preliminary Report

Green Public Procurement (GPP), in which public authorities procure goods, services and works that have less environmental impact than comparable contracts, has the potential to accelerate the market introduction and uptake of less environmentally damaging technologies. This report forms the basis to develop the EU GPP criteria for Public Spaces Maintenance. The development of EU GPP criteria requires in-depth information about the technical and environmental performance of this product group as well as about the typical procurement processes. This report gathers the necessary background information for that and presents it in a structured form. The scientific body of evidence gathered will be crosschecked with sector-experienced stakeholders to find the best way to develop the criteria in order to deliver optimum environmental improvements while complying with Public Procurement law and safeguarding the Single Market.JRC.B.5-Circular Economy and Industrial Leadershi

The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

INTRODUCTION Investment in Africa over the past year with regard to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequencing has led to a massive increase in the number of sequences, which, to date, exceeds 100,000 sequences generated to track the pandemic on the continent. These sequences have profoundly affected how public health officials in Africa have navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. RATIONALE We demonstrate how the first 100,000 SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Africa have helped monitor the epidemic on the continent, how genomic surveillance expanded over the course of the pandemic, and how we adapted our sequencing methods to deal with an evolving virus. Finally, we also examine how viral lineages have spread across the continent in a phylogeographic framework to gain insights into the underlying temporal and spatial transmission dynamics for several variants of concern (VOCs). RESULTS Our results indicate that the number of countries in Africa that can sequence the virus within their own borders is growing and that this is coupled with a shorter turnaround time from the time of sampling to sequence submission. Ongoing evolution necessitated the continual updating of primer sets, and, as a result, eight primer sets were designed in tandem with viral evolution and used to ensure effective sequencing of the virus. The pandemic unfolded through multiple waves of infection that were each driven by distinct genetic lineages, with B.1-like ancestral strains associated with the first pandemic wave of infections in 2020. Successive waves on the continent were fueled by different VOCs, with Alpha and Beta cocirculating in distinct spatial patterns during the second wave and Delta and Omicron affecting the whole continent during the third and fourth waves, respectively. Phylogeographic reconstruction points toward distinct differences in viral importation and exportation patterns associated with the Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron variants and subvariants, when considering both Africa versus the rest of the world and viral dissemination within the continent. Our epidemiological and phylogenetic inferences therefore underscore the heterogeneous nature of the pandemic on the continent and highlight key insights and challenges, for instance, recognizing the limitations of low testing proportions. We also highlight the early warning capacity that genomic surveillance in Africa has had for the rest of the world with the detection of new lineages and variants, the most recent being the characterization of various Omicron subvariants. CONCLUSION Sustained investment for diagnostics and genomic surveillance in Africa is needed as the virus continues to evolve. This is important not only to help combat SARS-CoV-2 on the continent but also because it can be used as a platform to help address the many emerging and reemerging infectious disease threats in Africa. In particular, capacity building for local sequencing within countries or within the continent should be prioritized because this is generally associated with shorter turnaround times, providing the most benefit to local public health authorities tasked with pandemic response and mitigation and allowing for the fastest reaction to localized outbreaks. These investments are crucial for pandemic preparedness and response and will serve the health of the continent well into the 21st century

Viviendas y equipamientos en Aveiro (Portugal)

Viviendas y equipamientos en Aveiro (Portugal). Convocatoria Julio. Plan 1975. Proyecto fin de carrera. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectur

Viviendas y equipamientos en Aveiro (Portugal)

Viviendas y equipamientos en Aveiro (Portugal). Convocatoria Julio. Plan 1975. Proyecto fin de carrera. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectur

Concurso en Barakaldo

Cuando la regla del juego deja de ser la solución y se convierte en el problema, valen las revisiones agudas. Una contrapropuesta astuta e inesperada es la que dio este proyecto al Europan 2001; negándose a construir tres torres de viviendas en la orilla del río (como lo pedían las bases) los arquitectos plantean un proyecto horizontal tendido sobre el agua, con un modelo de ocupación que recoge estrategias vernáculas presentes en lugares distantes y disímiles.<br>When the rules of the game cease to be the solution and become the problem, it’s time for a far-sighted review. This project made an astute, unexpected counter-proposal to Europan 2001: the architects rejected the terms of reference that required them to build three housing blocks on the riverbank. Instead they proposed a horizontal project that hung over the water, using models of occupation drawn from vernacular strategies from distant and different places

EU GPP Criteria for Public Spaces Maintenance - TECHNICAL REPORT Final version

Green Public Procurement (GPP), in which public authorities procure goods, services and works that have less environmental impact than comparable contracts, has the potential to accelerate the market introduction and uptake of less environmentally damaging technologies. This report forms the basis to develop the EU GPP criteria for Public Spaces Maintenance. The development of EU GPP criteria requires in-depth information about the technical and environmental performance of this product group as well as about the typical procurement processes. This report gathers the necessary background information for that and presents it in a structured form. The scientific body of evidence gathered will be crosschecked with sector-experienced stakeholders to find the best way to develop the criteria in order to deliver optimum environmental improvements while complying with Public Procurement law and safeguarding the Single Market.JRC.B.5-Circular Economy and Industrial Leadershi