The increasing level of virtualization in our world is pushing us to get more and more devices connected to the internet. The same is happening in our cities where data, such as road information, air quality and traffic control, is being gathered and virtualized. This paper gives an overview of the concepts of Virtual Reality, (Industrial) Internet of Things and how they can be interconnected t...

Accelerated growth of the World Wide Web has resulted in the evolution of many online collaboration platforms in various domains, including education domain. These platforms, apart from bringing interested stakeholders together, also provide innovative and value added services such as smart search, notifications, suggestions, etc. Techpedia is one of such a platform which facilitates students t...

In recent years, resilience has become an important goal for cities, particularly in the face of political uncertainty, climate change and increasing urbanisation. Resilience theory has yielded informative lessons and brought new perspective when preparing for, and responding to vulnerabilities cities face today, such as natural hazards and social inequalities. However, critical questions on ho...

In a recent article, Zachary Neal (2011) distinguishes between centrality and power in world city networks and proposes two measures of recursive power and centrality. His effort to clarify oversimplistic interpretations of relational measures of power and position in world city networks is appreciated. However, Neal’s effort to innovate methodologically is based on theoretical reasoning that i...