Drawing on David Sassoli's inspiring vision, we propose a reflection Europe as utopian project with ancient rootedness. This project's uniqueness is marked by its unfinished state, always requiring the impetus of renewed hope. The European Union has to be constantly updating and deepening itself in order survive. In conclusion observe how been goal progress for countries that comprise it, parad...

As the prospect of self-authored human extinction increasingly appears as a plausible scenario futures, growing number efforts aim at comprehending it world without us. Patrícia Vieira convincingly shows in her essay on utopia and dystopia Anthropocene that utopianism has become prominent interpretive strategy to render possibility meaningful. This brief reflection argues against feasibility co...

The Euclidean compromise solution in multicriteria optimization is a solution concept that assigns to a feasible set the alternative with minimal Euclidean distance to the utopia point. The purpose of this paper is to provide a characterization of the Euclidean compromise solution.

For centuries people have dreamt of ideal cities where architecture is beautiful, affordable and inclusive. Utopia has been applied to define architectures hope desire. Many designed or built solutions contributing towards improving our cities.Through a survey European North American housing, this research explores how the utopia in shifted through time. Selected projects showcase architectural...

Existing norms for scientific communication are rooted in anachronistic practices of bygone eras, making them needlessly inefficient. We outline a path that moves away from the existing model of scientific communication to improve the efficiency in meeting the purpose of public science – knowledge accumulation. We call for six changes: (1) full embrace of digital communication, (2) open access ...

Since 1991, the city of Delhi in India has become a focal point of economic liberalization. Economic liberalization has been accompanied by local government efforts to attract both foreign and domestic investment, particularly in the service sectors of the economy. The attraction of investment has been achieved by spatial reconfiguration, pitting the interest of global and domestic capital agai...

Mobile devices especially smartphones have gained widespread adoption in recent years, due to the plethora of features they offer. The use of such devices for web browsing, accessing email services and social networking is also getting continuously more popular. The same holds true for other more sensitive online activities, such as online shopping, contactless payments, and web banking. Howeve...

This chapter reports on some of the key findings from a larger study, focusing specifically on how participation in a senior-oriented Internet community affects many older Chinese persons’ beliefs and norms