The notion of smart and sustainable cities offers an integrated and holistic approach to urbanism by aiming to achieve the long-term goals of urban sustainability and resilience. In essence, a smart and sustainable city is an urban locality that functions as a robust system of systems with...

Nicht erst zu Pandemiezeiten wurden Bücherregale als Hintergründe genutzt – das Buch als Symbol eines bestimmten, meist gehobenen und intellektuell aufgeladenen, Lebensstils erfreut bereits seit langer Zeit Beliebtheit. Doch nicht nur als prestigeträchtiger Wissensvermittler auf...

The notion of smart and sustainable cities offers an integrated and holistic approach to urbanism by aiming to achieve the long-term goals of urban sustainability and resilience. In essence, a smart and sustainable city is an urban locality that functions as a robust system of systems with...

This paper tries to advance the perspective that the poor and the marginalized in society lack a sense of “participatory equity,†by building a new model where a person’s community identity matters, ex post, in determining if he or she will be poor, even though (unlike in the...