Im Oktober 2022 hat die Bundesregierung ihre Fachkräftestrategie verabschiedet, die einen Wandel der Arbeitskultur einleiten soll. Die demografische Entwicklung wird ohne ausreichendes Gegensteuern zu einer deutlichen Zunahme des Fachkräftemangels und zu einem spürbaren Rückgang des...

The purpose of this paper is the discussion of the environmental effects of a free-floating car-sharing system operating in Ulm, Germany. The system, called car2go, allows users to take and leave vehicles at any point within the city limits. Thus opposed to traditional car-sharing, there are no...

This paper examines the preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, and links it to debates on state rescaling and urban entrepreneurialism in megaprojects. It is argued that the Olympic megaproject in Sochi follows a model of <i>state dirigisme </i>which accords a salient role to...

With the increasing number and impact of events hosted by cities, understanding the nature of popular support for them and the resulting urban transformations is a crucial task. I examine residents’ perceptions of the preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, asking how support...

Exhibiting a highly divisive agenda postmodernism has created profound chasms across scientific communities. In development studies its radical impetus has translated into the postdevelopment perspective which violently repudiates the modernist development project. This paper crystallises two...

This article proposes that economic geography would benefit from a closer consideration of the topological multiplicities of power, that is, the multiple contending configurations of networks that make power a precarious accomplishment through creating constant overflows. It develops this...

Seit Aufkommen des neuen Informations- und Kommunikationsmediums Internet wird über dessen Innovationsgrad und Anwendungsnutzen ebenso leidenschaftlich gestritten wie über dessen zukünftige Diffusionsaussichten. Den euphorischen Befürwortern, die dem Internet eine schier unaufhaltsame...