Participative Management: A Model for Governance of Territorial Communities

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

Territorial Intelligence and Governance

Management and Governance of Online Communities

For the launch of a new cycle of seminars, the Chair was pleased to invite Bernardo Huberman, Director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Consulting Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. The Chair took the opportunity to have, Pr. Huberman presenting his work on management and governance of on line communities, during a seminar May 2...

Forming the Territorial Communities' Local Budgets in Ukraine Under Decentralization: Current Condition and Management Tasks

The budgetary capacity with the tax component as its key aspect is the basis for forming local budgets of a territorial community. The paper outlines the methods for diagnostics of the budgetary capacity of territorial communities by revenues aimed at providing a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of the status, strengths, and weaknesses of the economy of an administrative-te...

Territorial Governance and Area Image

The image of a region or a city is an emerging topic in most debates about economic development strategies at the local and regional level. Image is mostly considered an element of area marketing –a very fashionable item in contemporary policy approachesand instrumental to define communication strategies. Like with products and services, however, image is never (only) the outcome of ad hoc acti...