This article discusses the idea of city as a platform. The analysis focuses on the forms and implications of citizen involvement in publicly-supported participatory innovation platforms that facilitate urban economic development in the welfare society context. The discussion opens with a review of the smart city discourse, which in the context of economic development policy translates into citi...

Efforts to cope with the legacy of our industrial cities--blight, poverty, environmental degradation, ailing communities--have galvanized action across the public and private sectors to move vacant industrial land, also referred to as brownfields, to productive use; to curb sprawling development outside urban areas; and to reinvigorate urban communities. Such efforts, however, may be proceeding...

Isfahan is a historic city that has experienced several urban developments throughout its shining and glorious past. They began in Al-buyid and Seljuq periods, and continued through the Safavid urban evolution in the sixteenth century. Zayande-Rood is an important and effective natural element in the city's landscape and plan. This article reflects the conclusion of a historic study on revit...

The comprehensive implementation of rural revitalization strategy promotes the development socialist social productive forces and process comprehensively building a great modern country, which is necessary stage for free human beings in future communist society. At theoretical level, Marxist urban-rural concept provides scientific guidance Communist Party China (CPC) to lead revitalization; exc...

As an emerging business form of tourism development, homestays also play important role in China’s rural revitalization and transformation upgrading, has attracted increasing social attention. At present, Chongqing is the city with largest number China. Taking as a case-study area, based on homestay data Baidu map, this paper comprehensively uses methods spatial analysis, multiple regression ge...

BACKGROUND In response to the current fragmented context of health systems, it is essential to support the revitalization of primary health care in order to provide a stronger sense of direction and integrity. Around the world, family medicine recognized as a core discipline for strengthening primary health care setting. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to understand the perspectives of policy make...

The words community and communications are both derived from the Latin word for common. According to John Dewey, people "live in a community by virtue of the things they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common" (1915: 4). Dewey’s point — that communities can not exist without communications — leads to a corollary: that the nature and health of...

The rural revitalization strategy is a key strategic deployment to resolve the “San Nong” (Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers) issue attain agricultural modernization in new era. has practical significance determining differentiation principle of areas, identifying their development types, elucidating goal orientation revitalization. Starting from current situation villages Gangu County, thi...

Research background: The paper argues how the sustainable development of entrepreneurship in urban areas is based on four cornerstones: corruption, size areas, industrial structure and cultural biases. Corruption a significant social economic issue that has crippling effect for entrepreneurship. Further on, superiority larger cities generating advanced economies been recognized since time ancie...