Historically Switzerland is characterized by numerous small towns. During the twentieth century, the image of Swiss cities has changed: the expansion of the city has reached the limits of administrative urban borders, penetrating in peripheral locations. The main reasons concern not only the...

Severe climatic conditions, low population density, lack of infrastructure leave as the only possible nodular economic development of Arctic territories of the Russian Federation. In this case, a natural question arises: how to define points of growth, how to delineate those "patches of economic...

This paper introduces the concept of "interface of complexity" as a source of creating and dealing with possible participatory approaches to organisational development. Based on an actor-network-theory approach, we conceive of interfaces as complex events, situations and transitions in a...