Dates: 22-23 June 2017 Place: University of Derby Organisers: AMPS | University of Derby Outline The complexity of our cities is well documented. The economies they are based on are multiple. Some are growing exponentially, others are shrinking. Some pride themselves on architectural heritage, others are seeking to build and rebrand. Some are old, some […] read more
International Collaborative Research: Ottawa, St.Louis, Stuttgart, Bologna, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar, Lagos, New Delhi, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Kozhikode, Hong Kong Editors: Vinod Kumar, T. M. (Ed.) About this book The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development. The book surveys the state of the art of Smart City Economic […] read more
The ISB Fundraising Unit is looking for partners such as universities and SMEs operating in the restoration sector and related social issues for the European Call: H2020 SC5-07-2015: More Effective Ecosystem Restoration in the EU Scope: Proposals should develop for conceptually coherent ecosystem types tools, approaches, methodologies and methods to assess and predict the effectiveness relative to their […] read more
Economics is a stately subject, prim and respectable, one that’s altered little since its modern foundations were laid in Victorian times. Now it is changing rapidly, thanks to the work of a small group of researchers over the last two decades in New Mexico. The story started in 1987, when two Nobel prize winners, economist […] read more
INTERNATIONAL BIOURBANISM WORKSHOP Heraklion Crete, Greece | August 1st-9th 2014 The Crete Workshop in “SOCIO-SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS UNDER THE STATE OF EMERGENCY” will be held in Heraklion (Crete, Greece), August 1st-9th 2014. It aims to delineate the systemic implications of local responses to recession and explore socio-spatial practices that contradict and negate the current economic restructuring regime. […] read more
by Michel Bauwens P2P and Communal Shareholding With P2P, people voluntarily and cooperatively construct a commons according to the communist principle: “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” The use-value created by P2P projects is generated through free cooperation, without coercion toward the producers, and users have free access to […] read more
by Michel Bauwens Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a deeper transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As political, economic, and social systems transform themselves into distributed networks, a new human dynamic is emerging: peer to peer (P2P). As […] read more