1 Functional Reuse and Intensification of Rural-Urban Context: Rural Architectural Urbanism Tiziano Cattaneo, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Roberto De Lotto, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy Elisabetta Maria Venco, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Pavia,...

The idea of open source, stemming from software development is being applied in various fields, including urbanism, as the concept Open Source Urbanism (OSU). This approach promotes a transparent process, where methodology used and developed final outcomes are for others to use, modify, adjust even profit while also sharing their process results openly. In this paper, principles criteria source...

10 BUILT ENVIRONMENT VOL 43 NO 1 Despite these apparent benefits, scholars note that globalization may also present certain risks to industry.1 The opening of international trade and communications threatens copyrighted content, trade secrets, and other proprietary information; even more troublesome and less obvious, there is a danger that as companies shift production abroad, their capacity to...