This paper discusses the learning and educational potentialities of the Venice Unfolding prototype, an experimental tabletop application designed to explore and investigate urban and territorial contents and knowledge. The prototype supports and transforms ways of approaching various strategies involved in urban and territorial planning processes. It creates new ways of viewing, understanding a...

This case involves two proceedings, one pending in state court, the other in federal court. Each seeks review of an Iowa Utilities Board (IUB or Board) order. And each presents the question whether Windstream Iowa Communications, Inc. (Windstream), a local telecommunications carrier, may impose on Sprint Communications, Inc. (Sprint), intrastate access charges for telephone calls transported vi...

In shaping constitutional courts’ jurisdictions, societies must contend with the informational challenges associated with rule-making and the distributive politics of granting courts jurisdiction over administrative law-making. Curiously, judges are often granted jurisdiction that seems to create a tension between their ability to acquire information about appropriate rules and to clearly artic...

Territorial disputes between governments generate a significant amount of uncertainty for economic actors. Settled boundary agreements produce benefits to economic agents on both sides of the border. These qualities of borders are missed both by realists, who view territorial conflicts in overly zero-sum terms, and globalists, who claim borders are increasingly irrelevant. Settled borders help ...

The “SIG Pyrénées” is a socio-economic observatory of the Pyrenees Mountains. It has been gradually established over the last ten years by the Pyrenees Association for Mountain Economics (Assemblée Pyrénéenne d'Economie Montagnarde or APEM), an association created by the different consular structures of the Pyrenees Mountains. We will analyse it in its capacity as a territorial observatory, tha...

nowadays, given different definitions and conceptions on development, territorial planning lends to for various economic, social and geographical aspects, however its defensive and security perspectives have been taken into account to less extent. the present research is aimed to specify passive defense legal requirements in territorial planning through outlining the most important rules on pas...

This paper examines the segregative properties of Tiebout-like endogenous processes of jurisdiction formation in presence of a competitive land market. In the model considered, a continuum of households with di¤erent wealth levels and the same preferences for local public goods, private spending and housing choose a location from a …nite set. Each location has an initial endowment of housing th...