We are interested in the generation of distinguishing place or route descriptions for urban environments. Such descriptions require a hierarchical model of the discourse, the elements of the city. We postulate that cognitive hierarchies, as used in human communication, can be sufficiently reflected in machine-generated hierarchies. In this paper we (a) propose a computational model for the gene...

The focus of the present study is on the interdependence of language and urban identity set within the framework of theory of practice and the concept of the right to the city. It is concerned with the formation of local identities in the context of a multicultural city of Pula, in the Croatian region of Istria, characterized by a substantial presence of immigrant and ethnic minority groups. Th...

A common narrative about the recent reactionary turn in electoral democracies around world highlights a fundamental lack heart of neoliberal rationality — political/ social version critical theorists and morals/ traditions conservative critics. What if this is complemented by an excess, antinomic element, that overdetermines shift to right? Following mainstream subject entrepreneurial self stud...

The study introduces the results of a discourses survey mapping the media content and public views on the emergence of a residential community in a northern Finnish city. Three major discourses were seen to be at play in the process. The first of these highlighted communality and envisioned the area as a modern ‘village community’ where children were to be raised as active citizens. Secondly, t...

In this paper, I consider a range of English expressions and show that their context-dependency can be characterized in terms of two properties: 1. they specify entities in an evolving model of the discourse that the listener is constructing; 2. the particular entity specified depends on another entity in that part of the evolving 'discourse model' that the listener is currently attending to. S...

one of the most important theoretical concepts in international relations is the concept of ‘state’, in relation to which all of the theories and discourses reflect their viewpoints. however, sometimes there are said to be falls in state-nations. islamic-jurisprudential discourse and critical western discourse, admitting the role of state as a key element in international relations and respecti...

While the idea of the ‘Smart City’ has attracted increasing attention from academia, industry, and government this interest has largely had a technical and technological focus. This paper identifies some of the important political and policy challenges facing the idea, the discourse, of a ‘smart city’ as a means to optimise HCI input into the ‘smart city’ debate. It then addresses that gap by d...