Hug March

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors critically explore the implementation of the Smart City, tracing how the "environment" and environmental concerns have become an organizing principle in Barcelona's Smart City strategy, and aim to critically reflect upon the contradictions of the actually existing Smart City in Barcelona and how Smart discourses and practices might be intentionally or unintentionally mobilised in ways that serve to depoliticise urban redevelopment and environmental management.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes degrowth, a project of radical socioecological transformation calling for decolonizing the social imaginary from capitalism's pursuit of endless growth, and argues that degrowth is an advance over the pursuit of infinite growth.

Abstract: Part of this research was funded by the Spanish CICYT under grant numbers CSO2012-36997-C02-01, CSO2012-36997-C02-02 and JCI-2011-10709.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-reading of research on Smart Cities with theoretical perspectives drawn from the literature on Degrowth is presented, which suggests that Degrowth should not refrain from engaging with urban technological imaginaries in a critical and selective way.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the new orientation taken by Spanish water policy since the beginning of the 21st century and very specifically the shift towards desalination as an alternative to other water supply options such as river regulation or inter-basin water transfers.