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Governing Smart Specialisation

Governing Smart Specialisation

In recent years smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Providing targeted support for innovation and research it has helped identify those areas of greatest strategic potential developing mechanisms to involve the fullest range of stakeholders before setting strategic priorities and using the policy to maximize the knowledge-based potential of a region or territory. Governing Smart Specialisation contributes to the emerging debate about the role of the ‘entrepreneurial discovery process’ (EDP) which is at the heart of smart specialisation strategies for regional economic transformation. Particular focus in placed on what methods procedures and institutional conditions are necessary in order to generate information that helps buttress policy decisions. It draws on existing literature that analyses the relevance of EDP within smart specialisation for regional policy. Chapters are complemented with case studies about regions with different geographical and socioeconomic characteristics in Europe: from Norwegian regions to the Greek region of East Macedonia and Thrace. As one of the first books to directly address the EDP this is essential reading for students interested in regional economics public policy urban studies and technology innovation as well as for policy makers in regional and national administrations.

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Revitalising Lagging Regions Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0

Revitalising Lagging Regions Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0

This Expo book brings together leading academic and policymaker experts to reflect on the significant challenges faced by lagging regions in participating in the European Union’s Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) programme. In doing so the book offers a set of new policy recommendations on the design and implementation of appropriate Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) in lagging regions which may enable them to benefit from the opportunities of digitalisation and Industry 4. 0 (I4. 0). | Revitalising Lagging Regions Smart Specialisation and Industry 4. 0

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Smart Growth and Sustainable Transport in Cities

Smart Growth and Sustainable Transport in Cities

This book delves into the urban planning theory of “smart growth” to encourage the creation of smart cities where compact urban spaces are optimized to create transit-oriented pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly areas with a clear focus on developing a sustainable humanistic transport system. Over the last century increased demographic changes and use of motor vehicles in the wake of “urbanization” led to the rapid expansion of cities giving rise to economic social and environmental problems. Sprawls and extension into natural areas caused a scattered urban context replete with empty spaces. This book provides an effective solution to this with an overview of the historical application of smart growth principles as a response to the issue of sprawling cityscapes and sheds light on the theoretical information and methodologies used by cities to re-develop the urban landscape. It also encloses a checklist for practitioners and decision makers to inform the developmental process and integrate smart growth strategies into land use planning. This book effectively engages with the global problem of urban sprawl in cities and hence will be an asset to both urban planning professionals and graduate and postgraduate students of urban studies and the related disciplines. | Smart Growth and Sustainable Transport in Cities

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Creating Sensory Smart Classrooms A Practical Guide for Educators

Creating Sensory Smart Classrooms A Practical Guide for Educators

Creating Sensory Smart Classrooms introduces educators to the foundations of sensory processing and offers tools to meet the wide variety of sensory needs in each classroom. This comprehensive handbook helps readers understand the neurobiology behind sensory processing and regulation issues recognize when a student is over- or under-stimulated and integrate different sensory inputs into the school environment. Practical and accessible chapters foster an understanding of how sensory processing influences behaviors in the classroom and how protective relationships combined with sensory strategies positively influence students' regulation for improved learning outcomes. Packed with useful examples this is essential reading for teachers looking to develop the knowledge and skills they need to design sensory smart environments that support ALL learners. | Creating Sensory Smart Classrooms A Practical Guide for Educators

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Digital and Smart Cities

Digital and Smart Cities

Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. There is a growing awareness in the fields of design and architecture of the need to address the way that technology affects the urban condition. This book aims to give an informative and definitive overview of the topic of digital and smart cities. It explores the topic from a range of different perspectives both theoretical and historical and through a range of case studies of digital cities around the world. The approach taken by the authors is to view the city as a socially constructed set of activities practices and organisations. This enables the discussion to open up a more holistic and citizen- centred understanding of how technology shapes urban change through the way it is imagined used implemented and developed in a societal context. By drawing together a range of currently quite disparate discussions the aim is to enable the reader to take their own critical position within the topic. The book starts out with definitions and sets out the various interpretations and aspects of what constitutes and defines digital cities. The text then investigates and considers the range of factors that shape the characteristics of digital cities and draws together different disciplinary perspectives into a coherent discussion. The consideration of the different dimensions of the digital city is backed up with a series of relevant case studies of global city contexts in order to frame the discussion with real world examples.

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The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation

The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation

Smart specialisation is the new policy approach to the development of regional innovation systems across Europe and it involves fostering innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives which are well tailored to the local context. The different technologies skills profiles business activities institutions and sectors which reflect a region’s economic strengths and potential are to be fostered and encouraged to diversify in ways which also exploit the region’s linkages with broader global value-chains. Yet the ideas contained in the smart specialisation agenda have until now been primarily conceptual in nature. The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation draws together some of the leading regional economists and scientists in Europe to analyse how smart specialisation is working in practice. This book investigates different dimensions of the agenda as it is developing across parts of Europe from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. The quantitative analysis examines the nature of the diversification processes undertaken by regions and the interplay between the chosen local regional development priorities and the wider global value-chain impacts of these choices. Meanwhile the qualitative analysis examines the institutional opportunities and challenges facing policy makers and the key elements most likely to provide the underpinnings of a workable set of policy settings. The book is aimed both at academic researchers interested in the interface between economic geography and regional innovation systems as well as at policy makers making public policy decisions related to regional development at the local city regional or national levels.

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Smart Transitions in City Regionalism Territory Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

Smart Transitions in City Regionalism Territory Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

In recent years smartness has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this debates around what smart actually means both theoretically and empirically have emerged within the interdisciplinary arenas of urban and regional studies. This book explores the changes in discourse rationality and selected responses of smartness through the theme of transition. The concept of transition provides the broader context and points of reference for adopting smartness in reconciling competing interests and agendas in city-regional governance. Using case studies from around the world including North America Europe and South Africa the authors link external regime transition in societal values and goals with internal moves towards smartness. While reflecting the growing integration of overarching themes and analytical concerns this volume further develops work on smartness smart growth transition city-regionalism governance and sustainability. Smart Transitions in City Regionalism explores how smart cities and city regions interact with conventional state structures. It will be of great interest to postgraduates and advanced undergraduates across urban studies geography sustainability studies and political science. | Smart Transitions in City Regionalism Territory Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability

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Games and Play in the Creative Smart and Ecological City

Games and Play in the Creative Smart and Ecological City

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city. Games and Play in the Creative Smart and Ecological City is a collection of chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from game studies media studies play studies architecture landscape architecture and urban planning. It situates the historical evolution of play and games in the urban landscape and outlines the scope of the various ways games and play contribute to the city’s economy cultural life and environmental concerns. In connecting games and play more concretely to urban discourses and design strategies this book urges scholars to consider their growing contribution to three overarching sets of discourses that dominate urban planning and policy today: the creative and cultural economies of cities; the smart and playable city; and ecological cities. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of game studies play studies landscape architecture (and allied design fields) urban geography and art history. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9781003007760

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Partnerships for Regional Innovation and Development Implementing Smart Specialization in Europe

Partnerships for Regional Innovation and Development Implementing Smart Specialization in Europe

This monograph presents the experience in the implementation of smart specialization strategies (S3) from multilevel policy governance as well as from the bottom-up perspectives of firms clusters and networks in selected European countries. The presented research focuses on relevance and feasibility of the S3 adoption emphasizing the importance of linking policy considerations with partnerships at lower governance levels. The major contribution of the presented research rests in theoretical implications and practical recommendations relevant for the implementation of regional S3 in the European context with the possibility of place-based adoption in other environments. The book is also valuable for synthesizing the most recent advancements in smart specialization as a policy concept and the concept of transformation and growth for territorial units and economic entities. This book aims to further diffuse and expand the academic community’s learning of the new S3 approach in Europe and beyond. The book will be of interest and useful to the academic community of researchers and doctoral students focused on regional innovation development and related policy as well as on entrepreneurship networks and clusters. Public sector professionals dealing with regional development regional innovation policies and industrial transformation will also benefit from its content. | Partnerships for Regional Innovation and Development Implementing Smart Specialization in Europe

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Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city second the smart city and third the autonomous city intended as a place where existing smart technologies are evolving into artificial intelligences that are taking the management of the city out of the hands of humans. The book empirically explores Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong to provide a critical analysis of eco and smart city experiments and their sustainability and it draws on numerous real-life examples to illustrate the rise of urban artificial intelligences across different geographical spaces and scales. Theoretically the book traverses philosophy urban studies and planning theory to explain the passage from eco and smart cities to the autonomous city and to reflect on the meaning and purpose of cities in a time when human and non-biological intelligences are irreversibly colliding in the built environment. Iconoclastic and prophetic Frankenstein Urbanism is both an examination of the evolution of urban experimentation through the lens of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a warning about an urbanism whose product resembles Frankenstein’s monster: a fragmented entity which escapes human control and human understanding. Academics students and practitioners will find in this book the knowledge that is necessary to comprehend and engage with the many urban experiments that are now alive ready to leave the laboratory and enter our cities. | Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

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The New Woman's Film Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks

The New Woman's Film Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks

With the chick flick arguably in decline film scholars may well ask: what has become of the woman’s film? Little attention has been paid to the proliferation of films often from the independent sector that do not sit comfortably in either the category of popular culture or that of high art––films that are perhaps the corollary of the middle-brow novel or smart-chick flicks. This book seeks to fill this void by focusing on the steady stream of films about and for women that emerge out of independent American and European cinema and that are designed to address an international female audience. The new woman's film as a genre includes narratives with strong ties to the woman’s film of classical Hollywood while constituting a new distinctive cycle of female-centered films that in many ways continue the project of second-wave feminism albeit in a modified form. Topics addressed include: The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood 1995); the feature-length films of Nicole Holofcener 1996-2013; the film roles of Tilda Swinton; Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme 2008); Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen 2013); Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach 2012) Belle (Amma Asante 2013) Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson 2015) and Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel 2013-). | The New Woman's Film Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks

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The Age of Intelligent Cities Smart Environments and Innovation-for-all Strategies

The Age of Intelligent Cities Smart Environments and Innovation-for-all Strategies

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and collaborative problem-solving. In this final book the focus is on planning strategy and governance of intelligent cities. Divided into three parts each section elaborates upon complementary aspects of intelligent city strategy and planning. Part I is about the drivers and architectures of the spatial intelligence of cities while Part II turns to planning processes and discusses top-down and bottom-up planning for intelligent cities. Cities such as Amsterdam Manchester Stockholm and Helsinki are examples of cities that have used bottom-up planning through the gradual implementation of successive initiatives for regeneration. On the other hand Living PlanIT Neapolis in Cyprus and Saudi Arabia intelligent cities have started with the top-down approach setting up urban operating systems and common central platforms. Part III focuses on intelligent city strategies; how cities should manage the drivers of spatial intelligence create smart environments mobilise communities and offer new solutions to address city problems. Main findings of the book are related to a series of models which capture fundamental aspects of intelligent cities making and operation. These models consider structure function planning strategies toward intelligent environments and a model of governance based on mobilisation of communities knowledge architectures and innovation cycles. | The Age of Intelligent Cities Smart Environments and Innovation-for-all Strategies

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ADHD and Asperger Syndrome in Smart Kids and Adults Twelve Stories of Struggle Support and Treatment

ADHD and Asperger Syndrome in Smart Kids and Adults Twelve Stories of Struggle Support and Treatment

ADHD and Asperger Syndrome in Smart Kids and Adults offers detailed examples of individuals who have above-average cognitive intelligence but struggle with executive function impairments of ADHD and significant social-emotional impairments of Asperger syndrome. The book centers around twelve case studies of bright children teens and adults treated for both ADHD and Asperger syndrome. Each chapter describes diverse examples of their strengths and their difficulties and explains how these individuals can be helped with appropriate treatment to overcome their ADHD impairments and to improve their ability to understand and interact more effectively with others. Case examples are followed by updated science-based descriptions of these disorders. Providing science-based information about ADHD and Asperger syndrome in clearly understandable accessible language this text is ideal for clinicians educators social workers medical and mental health service providers and parents of those struggling with such impairments. It also advocates for restoring the diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome to diagnostic manuals of the American Psychiatric Association and World Health Organization. | ADHD and Asperger Syndrome in Smart Kids and Adults Twelve Stories of Struggle Support and Treatment

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Smart on Crime The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System

Smart on Crime The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System

The most punitive era in American history reached its apex in the 1990s but the trend has reversed in recent years. Smart on Crime: The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System examines the factors causing this dramatic turnaround. It relates and echoes the increasing need and desire on the part of actors in the American government system to construct a penal system that is more rational and humane. Author Garrick L. Percival points out that the prison boom did not naturally emerge as a governmental response to increasing crime rates. Instead political forces actively built and shaped the growth of a more aggressive and populated penal system. He is optimistic that the shifting political forces surrounding crime and punishment can now reform the system explaining how current political actors can craft more constructive and just policies and programs. The book shows how rationality and humanitarianism lead to a penal system that imprisons fewer people does less harm to the lives of individual offenders and those close to them and is less expensive to maintain. The book presents empirical data to concretely demonstrate what is working and what is not in today’s penal system. It closely examines policies and practices in Texas Ohio and California as comparative illustrations on what progress has been made or needs to be made in penal systems across the United States. The book includes a comprehensive discussion of highlighted issues and relates more than two dozen interviews with pivotal political actors who clarify why there is a major shift underway in the American penal system. Their insights reveal paths that can be taken to improve the current penal system. | Smart on Crime The Struggle to Build a Better American Penal System

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Industrial IoT Application Architectures and Use Cases

Industrial IoT Application Architectures and Use Cases

As the number of Internet of Things (IoT) elements grows exponentially their interactions can generate a massive amount of raw and multi-structured data. The challenge with this data explosion is to transform any raw data into information and knowledge which can be used by people and systems to make intelligent decisions. Industrial IoT Application Architectures and Use Cases explores how artificial intelligence (AI) data analytics and IoT technology combine to promote intelligent decision-making and automation in a range of industries. With faster more stable AI algorithms and approaches knowledge discovery and dissemination from IoT-device data can be simplified and streamlined. An era of powerful cognitive technology is beginning due to cloud-based cognitive systems that are forming the foundation of game-changing intelligent applications. This book presents next-generation use cases of IoT and IoT data analytics for a variety of industrial verticals as given below: An Intelligent IoT framework for smart water managementAn IoT-enabled smart traffic control system for congestion control and smart traffic management An intelligent airport system for airport management and security surveillanceAn IoT framework for healthcare to integrate and report patient information Fuzzy scheduling with IoT for tracking and monitoring hotel assets An IoT system for designing drainage systems and monitoring drainage pipes Predictive maintenance of plant equipment to decide the actual mean time to malfunction Integrated neural networks and IoT systems for predictive equipment maintenance IoT integration in blockchain for smart waste management This book also includes a chapter on the IoT paradigm and an overview of uses cases for personal social and industrial applications.

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Regional Innovation Strategies 3 (RIS3)

Regional Innovation Strategies 3 (RIS3)

With regions and nations having formally fulfilled the ex ante conditionality this book provides a first overall review of RIS3 policy processes aiming to assess the consistency of the concept of smart specialization from an applied policy-oriented perspective. Moving from the theory of design to the practice of implementation the reflections and case studies in this volume reveal strengths and weaknesses in the way concrete strategies have been conceived and implemented enabling reflections on the future of the concept in a more general sense. In many cases smart specialization strategies turn out to be new variants of regional development policies embracing the importance of a place-based approach. However the approach’s potential to add distinctive value will stem from its capacity to turn innovation and knowledge into tools for local development by harnessing them for wider territorial development goals. By helping regions to identify and leverage untapped resources through new processes smart specialization-based policies may help to reconcile cohesion and competitiveness objective. Consequently new approaches appear most promising where institutional administrative and political conditions allow the setup of genuinely new processes and where their focus is on territorial assets in a comprehensive manner rather than mere industrial renewal. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Planning Studies. | Regional Innovation Strategies 3 (RIS3)

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Collage and Architecture

Collage and Architecture

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis and design in architecture. Since entering the contemporary art world over a century ago collage has profoundly influenced artists and architects throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In Collage and Architecture Jennifer A. E. Shields explores its influence using the artworks and built projects of leading artists and architects such as Mies van der Rohe Daniel Libeskind and Teddy Cruz to illustrate the diversity of collage techniques. This new edition includes: A stronger focus on contemporary practices including digital methods; New designers and architects including Marshall Brown WAI Architecture Think Tank and Tatiana Bilbao bringing their methods and work to life; An expanded global and diverse perspective of architecture as collage; Collage is an important instrument for analysis and design. Through its 261 color images this book shows how this versatile medium can be adapted and transformed in your own work.

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Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence and Its Application Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Trends in Informat

Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence and Its Application Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Trends in Informat

The increase in computing power and sensor data has driven Information Technology on end devices such as smart phones or automobiles. The widespread application of IT across the globe includes manufacturing engineering retail e-commerce health care education financial services banking space exploration politics (to help predict the sentiments of voter demographics) etc. The papers in this conference proceeding examine and discuss various interdisciplinary researches that could accelerate the advent of Information Technology. | Recent Trends in Computational Intelligence and Its Application Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Trends in Informat

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Financing Healthcare in China Towards universal health insurance

Financing Healthcare in China Towards universal health insurance

China’s current social medical insurance system has nominally covered more than 95 per cent of 1. 4 billion population in China and is moving towards the ambitious goal of universal health insurance coverage. Challenges posed by a rapidly ageing population an inherently discriminatory design of the health insurance system the disorder of drug distribution system and an immature legal system constrain the Chinese government from realizing its goal of universal health insurance coverage in the long run. This book uses a refined version of historical institutionalism to critically examine China's pathway to universal health insurance coverage since the mid-1980s. It pays crucial attention to the processes of transforming China's healthcare financing system into the basic social medical insurance system alongside rapid socio-economic changes. Financing Healthcare in China will interest researchers and government and think-tank officials interested in the state of healthcare reforms in China. Healthcare specialists outside of East Asia may also be interested in its general study of healthcare in developing countries. Scholars and students interested in the healthcare field will also find this useful. | Financing Healthcare in China Towards universal health insurance

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Searching and Researching An Autobiography of a Nobel Laureate

Searching and Researching An Autobiography of a Nobel Laureate

In the last 130 years 30 Swiss people have won a Nobel Prize and one of them is Richard R. Ernst. He laid the foundation for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which revolutionized medical diagnostics across the globe. In his autobiography which the scientist completed shortly before he passed away at the age of 87 he talks about his life. Prof. Ernst grew up in a family long-established in Winterthur Switzerland however his childhood and adolescence were overshadowed by a demanding father. He talks in detail about the start of his career in the 1960s when he made a number of key discoveries at Varian Associates Palo Alto USA as well as about his return to ETH Zürich Switzerland and the shark tank that university research is. The highly talented chemist reveals how his passion for Himalayan art began while travelling in Nepal which ended in him building up one of the most significant collections of thangkas – the tantric Buddhist scrolls. In this book Prof. Ernst discusses openly and directly about all aspects of his life with humility and a wry sense of humor. | Searching and Researching An Autobiography of a Nobel Laureate

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Future of Cities Planning Infrastructure and Development

Future of Cities Planning Infrastructure and Development

This book critically analyses the existing condition of cities in developing countries with special reference to planning and infrastructure networks in India. It provides an overview of the nature of opportunities presented by cities; major challenges that cities would face in future; and codifies the ways and means to transcend the challenges of contemporary urban growth and quality of urbanisation. It discusses key themes such as architecture of density transformation of land-use zones to development zones development of railway infrastructure planning and design guidelines for bus rapid transit and urban water planning and universal access to housing to create an enabling environment for deliberations and a better future for cities in the developing world. The book integrates insights from governance planning and design and highlights implications of spatial integration. It brings together current issues in Indian urbanisation smart technologies used in building smart cities and high-rises and urban and regional governance to explore forms of sustainable development planning that factor human needs. Accessible and topical this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban studies urban and city planning development studies sociology public policy and administration political sociology anthropology architecture geography and economics as well as to professionals planners policymakers and non-governmental organisations. | Future of Cities Planning Infrastructure and Development

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The Politics of Populism in Hungary

The Politics of Populism in Hungary

The book assesses the development of the Orbán regime in Hungary after 2010 through analyzing the polity-politics-policy impacts from a perspective of populism as an ideology focusing on discourse and actual decisions. By closely scrutinizing political narratives actual decisions and survey data this volume offers a systematic analysis of the impact of populism on the polity-politics-policy aspects of the political in Hungary after 2010. It analyzes the uses of constitutionalism and discriminatory legalism the changes in the quality of democracy the government’s relationship with media and journalism its influence over the party system and EU politics and its approach to family and cultural policies. While each chapter in the volume describes the findings in response to the corresponding literature highlighting the added value of the individual analyses the book interprets the overall results under the notion of smart populism where the moral definition of the people allows for little political opposition the elite is selected based on its multifaceted applicability for a political narrative and the will of the people is determined from above. The volume also suggests responses to smart populism. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of democracy party politics the rise of populism and contemporary Hungarian politics. | The Politics of Populism in Hungary

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Beyond Hybrid Working A Smarter & Transformational Approach to Flexible Working

Beyond Hybrid Working A Smarter & Transformational Approach to Flexible Working

Much more than a book about flexible working Beyond Hybrid Working is an engaging and practical management book to help organisations rethink all aspects of traditional work in the emerging post-pandemic landscape and reap the benefits from working smarter. Many organisations that had rapidly improvised and implemented Hybrid Working now want to take a more strategic approach. ‘Smart Working’ is being adopted across sectors from technology companies through the financial services sector to the public sector. Andy Lake has supported implementations in businesses and public sector organisations for nearly 30 years including advising the UK Cabinet Office. He sets out a strategic comprehensive and integrated approach to Smart Working in the context of new possibilities for working on a more distributed basis and the impact of new AI-based technologies coming over the horizon. He also explores the possibilities for greater flexibility for workers with hands-on and site-specific roles. Featuring detailed case studies the book takes a pragmatic and evidence-based approach covering different sectors and types of work and presents practical techniques for implementing change. This is essential reading for anyone involved in transformational workplace change and increasing the efficiency of organisations. It is written for managers who need to deliver change and professionals and researchers in the fields of People Workplace and Technology. | Beyond Hybrid Working A Smarter & Transformational Approach to Flexible Working

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Drone Futures UAS in Landscape and Urban Design

Drone Futures UAS in Landscape and Urban Design

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct application to the built environment; this book explores the myriad of contemporary and future possibilities of the design medium its aesthetic mapping agency AI mobility and contribution to smart cities. Drones present innovative possibilities operating in a ‘hover space’ between human scales of landscape observation and light aircraft providing a unique resolution of space. This book shows how UAS can be utilised to provide new perspectives on spatial layout landscape and urban conditions data capture for construction monitoring and simulation of design proposals. Author Paul Cureton examines both the philosophical use of these tools and practical steps for implementation by designers. Illustrated in full colour throughout Drone Futures discusses UAS and their connectivity to other design technologies and processes including mapping and photogrammetry AR/VR drone AI and drones for construction and fabrication new mobilities smart cities and city information models (CIMs). It is specifically geared towards professionals seeking to understand UAS applications and future development and students seeking an understanding of the role of drones and airspace in the built environment and its powerful geographic imaginary. With international contributions multidisciplinary sources and case studies Drone Futures examines new powers of flight for visualising interpreting and presenting landscapes and urban spaces of tomorrow. | Drone Futures UAS in Landscape and Urban Design

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