It was Robert Putnam, the key author observing the social phenomenon that meant the foundation of the concept, Social Capital. His interesting experiment observing the bowling rooms, provided us an interesting perspective from which to compare, connect, or even benchmark the social diverse context and...
Cities, as Matthew Barney pointed out, are fabric of space made up of water, modernity and urban imagination. Here are some pictures to illustrate this idea....
I arrived in Portland in March 2009. It was a highly productive time of my doctoral research at the PSU, but I also interviewed some other stakeholders in the City-Region of Portland (Oregon). Definitely, I stepped up the field work case that would be...
Maybe Mikel Laboa is not very popular for those that have not grown up being Basques. For those who I share my feelings with, they may understand what I felt when on the 1st December 2008 Mikel Laboa passed away. At that time, I was...
On 2nd December 2008, I gave a Faculty Seminar at the Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno NV (USA). I introduced the preliminary ideas of my work-in-progress PhD dissertation on the Basque City-Region or Euskal Hiria....
This article aims to explain what I saw in Google, Palo Alto in San Francisco. My summary was that Google was simply an massive iceberg where the we could notice just the 20% on the surface, but actually not easily observed the rest of the...
There was a huge noise outside where I lived, Twin Peaks in San Francisco. I left my home, started walking and ended up in a crowd which was cheering and shouting: It seemed to be the beginning of the Obama era. Nevertheless, was it a...
This presentation was given from a Hotel in Boise (Idaho). The initial idea of the activity was suggested by the Machine-Tool Institute that every year organizes an event where Basque language avant-garde research is treated. The title of my presentation was Basque 2.0 and this...
For my doctoral PhD field work research, I carried out some interviews mainly in 3 cities in the West Coast of the USA: San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The second city attracted my attention and my research once I saw the similarities and the potentialities...
