'Trading zone' is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms ha

Today, urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving through networks of human associations, technologies, and natural ecologies. This being the case,

All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems. New developments, challenges and opportunities cause these issues and yet cases tell us that

This book aims to identify ways of overcoming the limitations of the communicative tradition in understanding participatory spatial planning. Three conceptual m

Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between plan