A name cannot change the city and our relationship with places. However, new terms for now-nameless spaces will help to change people’s perception and their capability of seeing what they have never seen before. The geographer’s taxonomic effort to re-designate urban places and typologies involves a political and ideological content. Most urban spaces are unmanageable because they fit neither w...

structure to fit a given situation, one makes clear the principal function of theory as an imaging process, that is, as a description of observed reality. Psychologically speaking, there is no possibility of an involvement of the pupil's person as there is in the less precise concept of science's providing "explanations", where assent is essential. One benefit of the structuralist method mentio...

Beyond both estalished frameworks of derivative-based descent and stochastic search algorithms, the rise of expensive optimization problems creates the need for new specific approaches and procedures. The word ”expensive” —which refers to price and/or time issues— implies severely restricted budgets in terms of objective function evaluations. Such limitations contrast with the computational bur...