Special issue: gated communities

Special Issue

The Physical Factors Affecting the Social Livability of Gated Communities: A Case study of Gated Communities in Tehran

Despite negative perspectives on their consequences, gated communities continue to spread in cities due to structural reasons such as globalization and economic neo-liberalism. Hence, there is a need to seek for a way of achieving a balance and make these communities livable. Due to agreement with economic market perspectives, livability principles might offer a solution for mediating the socia...

Special Issue: Gut Microbial Communities in Health and Disease

The complex and ancient relationships between animal hosts and the microbial communities that inhabit their digestive tracts have become the focus of intense research in recent years. As a result, our understanding of gut microbial ecology and of the evolutionary and physiologic impacts of gut microbial communities in animal hosts has grown markedly. Indeed, members of the gut microbiota have n...

(Virtual) Communities of Practice within Modern Organizations - J.UCS Special Issue

The papers of this special issue were presented or were inspired by a special track on “I-Know’03 – Third International Conference on Knowledge Management” in Graz organized by the Know-Center. The guest editor wishes to acknowledge the contributions of the authors, reviewers, and discussants which have made the special track a valuable experience for all participants. This introduction gives a...

Beyond Users to Communities - Designing Systems As Though Communities Matter - An Introduction to the Special Issue

Community informatics was born as an autonomous field of research in the late 1990s from a group of researchers and practitioners concerned to enhance the possibility for communities and individual citizens to contribute to the construction of the Information/Network Society. Community Informatics researchers are looking to develop a corpus of knowledge and action/research projects for enhancin...