Commentary on “Toward a Dracula Urbanism”

Commentary on "Toward WTO 2000: A Seattle Odyssey"

I very much enjoyed reading Jeff Schott’s paper. When I agreed to discuss it, I knew only its proposed title “The WTO: Its Performance to Date and Current Issues.” The paper I received, however, has a different and catchy title borrowed from the title of a highly successful film. The changed title also is reflected in the paper’s forward-looking theme of the proposed new round of multilateral t...

Commentary on Toward a Test for Strict Liability in Torts

developments toward an ideal skin substitute: a commentary

skin grafting always has been considered a challenging task for the researchers and tissue engineers from its first introduction in 1871 by reverdin. skin substitutes, composed of degradable synthetic or biological components, are being considered as emergency replacements/grafts to the damaged skin. a number of technical developments in this filed have led to development of several skin substi...

A commentary on hunger in Quranic verses

Hunger has been always regarded as one of the signs in mysticism and morality and all Sufis have known it as one of the bases for their special manner of life. Some have known it to mean eating based on need, some other to mean fasting and some to mean not eating but necessarily. The author, as is understood in the paper, relying on Quran and sunnah, has explained that the meanings are intended...

Urbanism as Computation

Successful urban configurations are the result of a complex sequence of implicit computations that transform unorganized input into organized output. Although that is exactly what they do, few urbanists discuss their work in these terms. I propose a fundamental distinction between the principal methods of urban computation. One algorithmic process for urbanism leads to formal planning, which la...