scholarly journals Smart District and Circular Economy: The Role of ICT Solutions in Promoting Circular Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11732
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Viglioglia ◽  
Matteo Giovanardi ◽  
Riccardo Pollo ◽  
Pier Paolo Peruccio
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Classification Framework ◽  
The One

Cities will have a decisive role in reducing the consumption of resources and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Various experiences of urban regeneration have exploited Information and Communication Technology (ICT) potentialities to optimize the management of complex systems and to encourage sustainable development models. This paper investigates the role of ICT technologies in favouring emerging design for Circular Economy (CE) in the urban context. The paper starts by defining the theoretical background and subsequently presents the goal and methodology of investigation. Through a scoping review, the authors identify case studies and analyse them within the Ellen MacArthur Foundation classification framework that splits the urban context into three urban systems: buildings, mobility and products. The research focuses on nine case studies where the ICT solutions were able to promote the principles of CE. The results show, on the one hand, how data management appears to be a central issue in the optimization of urban processes and, on the other hand, how the district scale is the most appropriate to test innovative solutions. This paper identifies physical and virtual infrastructures, stakeholders and tools for user engagement as key elements for the pursuit of CE adoption in the urban context.

scholarly journals Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angioletta Voghera ◽  
Benedetta Giudice
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Ecological Indicators ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
Social Components

In the light of the current changing global scenarios, green infrastructure is obtaining increasing relevance in planning policies, especially due to its ecological, environmental and social components which contribute to pursuing sustainable and resilient planning and designing of cities and territories. The issue of green infrastructure is framed within the conceptual contexts of sustainability and resilience, which are described through the analysis of their common aspects and differences with a particular focus on planning elements. In particular, the paper uses two distinct case studies of green infrastructure as representative: the green infrastructure of the Region Languedoc-Roussillon in France and the one of the Province of Turin in Italy. The analysis of two case studies focuses on the evaluation process carried on about the social-ecological system and describes the methodologies and the social-ecological indicators used to define the green infrastructure network. We related these indicators to their possible contribution to the measurement of sustainability and resilience. The analysis of this relationship led us to outline some conclusive considerations on the complex role of the design of green infrastructure with reference to sustainability and resilience.

Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia: Five ‘Cs’ for Reflection

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-225
Author(s):  
Arif A JAMAL
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Short Commentary ◽  
Five Cs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

AbstractIn considering the articles in this Special Issue, I am struck by the importance of a set of factors that, in my view, both run through the articles like a leitmotif, as well as shape the major ‘take away’ lesson(s) from the articles. In this short commentary, I elaborate on these factors and the lesson(s) to take from them through five ‘Cs’: context; complexity; contestation; the framework of constitutions; and the role of comparative law. The first three ‘Cs’ are lessons from the case studies of the articles themselves, while the second two ‘Cs’ are offered as lessons to help take the dialogue forward. Fundamentally, these five ‘Cs’ highlight the importance of the articles in this Special Issue and the conference from which they emerged on the one hand, while on the other hand, also making us aware of what are the limits of what we should conclude from the individual articles. In other words, taken together, the five ‘Cs’ are, one might say, lessons about lessons.

Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 819-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Hitzer ◽  
Joachim Schlör
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
East European ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religious Landscape

This article introduces a special issue that investigates the place of religion in the spatial and cultural organization of west and east European cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discussing different frameworks for a conceptualization of the role of religion within the urban context during the past two hundred years, it argues for adopting a broader perspective that takes into account the multiple and often conflicting processes and practices of religious modernization. Thus, it places particular emphasis on scrutinizing a space in between, that is to say, the area of contact between the outward influence on the spatial development of religious communities on the one hand and the inner workings of such communities on the other hand. Based on an 1880s debate over the way Jewish immigrants changed the religious landscape of New York Jewry as well as on the results of the following contributions, it supports a fresh look at the turn of the century as a period of intensified religious life and visibility within metropolises that contributed to the development of more “modern,” individualized forms of religious sociability and, in the same vein, fostered the emergence of modern urbanity.

Erneuerbare und dezentrale Energien aus postkolonialer Perspektive

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Barthel
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Technology Research ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
New Type ◽  
New Research

By combining postcolonial theory and development and technology research, this interdisciplinary work offers new research avenues. Through two detailed case studies, it contributes to theoretical knowledge as well as critical developmental practice. First, it reflects on the role of (energy) technologies from a critical perspective on development and technology. It proceeds to highlight current discursive formations and the political strategies of the energy and ‘devel-opment’ nexus. Against this theoretical background and via ethnographic research methods, processes of technology development in two case studies of German–Tanzanian partnerships are reconstructed, analysed from a postcolonial perspective and examined for their potential in terms of self-determined technology development and use and the obstacles they also pose in this respect. The case studies look at the cooperation between two NGOs that are developing a new type of biogas system for the home and two companies that install solar home systems.

scholarly journals Achieving the Circular Economy: Exploring the Role of Local Governments, Business and Citizens in an Urban Context

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 875
Author(s):  
Jenny Palm ◽  
Nancy Bocken
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Context

The urban context is an experimentation space to accelerate the transition to a circular economy [...]

scholarly journals Resource Discovery for the Twenty-First Century Library: Case Studies and Perspectives on the Role of IT in User Engagement and Empowerment

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Haugh
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Resource Discovery ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
First Century ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Role Of It

Resource Discovery for the Twenty-First Century Library: Case Studies and Perspectives on the Role of IT in User Engagement and Empowerment offers an engaging overview of the discovery landscape through case studies, vendor perspectives, and speculative fiction.

scholarly journals The Role of Architecture and Urbanism in Preventing Pandemics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Andrei Fezi
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
System Response ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Green Architecture ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
The One ◽  
Air Control ◽  
The 19Th Century

This chapter aims to assess the historical role of architecture and urbanism in the prevention and mitigation of pandemics and the place it may occupy in future international strategies. During COVID-19, the contemporary healthcare system response to pandemics showed its limits. There must be investigated a more interdisciplinary answer in which the role of the built environment in the One Health should be clarified. Since the 19th century, the built environment traditionally occupied a decisive role in mitigating pandemics. The war against tuberculosis led to the Hygiene movement which set the principles of the Modernist architectural and urban movement. With the discovery of antibiotics, the medicine emancipated from architecture. In the absence of health implications, the social and environmental counterreactions to the Modernist movement led to the Green Architecture, New Urbanism or Urban Village movements. After the last decades warnings about future pandemics, some of the present COVID-19 scientific findings have notable impact on the built environment design: pollution, green areas, urban population density or air quality control. Finally, the chapter analyses architectural and urban measures for preventing and mitigating future pandemics: air control, residential approaches, public spaces, green areas design, working, transportation and mixed neighborhoods.

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