In our article, ‘Diversifying the compact city’ (2023), we aimed to open a dialogue in human geography and beyond on how broaden scope of examine critique urbanism. The insightful constructive commentaries received generated further reflection lived experiences urbanism mutual benefits interdisciplinary collaboration city agenda. this author response, elaborate need ground research actual pract...

Abstract Mereological harmony is the idea that mereological structure of objects mirrors locations. Grounding there a similar mirroring between grounding and Our goal in this paper exploratory: we introduce then explore two notions harmony: locative structural. We outline potential structural principles for grounding, show which these may entail, or be entailed by, harmony. present case study h...

In a conversation, participants establish and maintain their mutual belief that their utterances have been understood well enough for current purposes – a process that has been referred to as grounding. In order to make a contribution to the conversation, participants typically do more than just produce the right utterance at the right time; they coordinate the presentation and acceptance of th...

Abstract The notion of grounding is usually conceived as an objective and explanatory relation. It connects two relata if one—the ground—determines or explains the other—the consequence. In contemporary literature on grounding, much effort has been devoted to logically characterize formal aspects but a major hard problem remains: defining suitable principles for universal existential formulae. ...