The last three days of the WUF were packed with meetings, sessions and an unrelated concert before leaving. I am impressed on how Medellin has addressed the importance of libraries as means to improve social wellbeing and improve the feel of the city. The last saturday before returning to Chile, I spent the whole day at […]
Everywhere it is economics. The highlight of the day was Joseph Stiglitz talk at the forum. Although the translation was horrible most of the ideas were clear: Inequality is something we all pay for at the end, and it needs to be addressed for cities to prosper. I try to attend the early session […]
Today during the forum an interesting comment was made during the “Investor Ready City” session organized by Siemens in regards to the growth of urban population and infrastructure. We need to build 2 cities of the size of Medellín per year – from scratch – to host the number of people who will be living in […]
Today we decided to visit some areas of Medellín (I came to the event with two Spanish friends that are also living in Chile ). The day passes by quite fast so the sites visited were: Parque Arvi (going up the Metrocable), the Library Parque España and the Botanical Garden. I have to admit the Medellín is […]
