What are the relationships between and among small businesses, conflict, peaceful development in contexts of urban violence? Here, complex formal informal divisions economic, political social power, authority, legitimacy – many grey areas legality illegality, necessity opportunism create challenging conditions for business operations peacebuilding. A grounded understanding is required if peace-...

This paper presents a strategic framework for conducting action research in partnership with community-based organizations. The framework was developed through projects conducted in three urban communities in Pennsylvania – Harrisburg, Steelton and West Philadelphia. Using empirical data from these case studies, we present the research model as well as methodological considerations for conducti...

Urban computing provides the services by considering of user’s devices and environments near user’s location. That means that it can be detected their moving by sensor the generated contexts during user moving. And they can guess the user’s next moving through these detected contexts. During user’s moving, there are getting more increase the number of contexts. And the more increase the number ...

This research tries to interpret the results of the empirical analysis of urban land value variations from 1977 to 2012 in the regional Italian capital cities based on the well-known theory of urban land rent. The historical series to be analyzed were obtained as the difference between the market value of a property and its cost of production. The paper shows, in quantitative terms, how differe...