This dissertation is about the spatial organization of contemporary psychiatric practice, about 'healing architecture' in psychiatry. I take 'healing architecture' to represent a particular effort to spatially and materially organize contemporary psychiatric practice. The problem motivating my...

This dissertation investigates the relationships between food systems and the built environment through the lens of political economy, focusing on the case of Egypt. It argues that food systems as well as the factors that influence them at social, economic, and political levels also affect...

We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...

This article is focused on tackling the issue of the impact of the bank CEO’s emotional bias on the Tunisian banks’ performance level while accounting for the mediating role of the control systems. In this regard, an empirical study has been set up through a questionnaire undertaken as an...

Introduction: Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms / Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Douglas Young -- Part 1: Housing Experiences and Life Trajectories -- From Socialist Moderns to Urban Poor: Gender and the Housing Question in Post-Reform Vinh City / Christina Schwenkel -- From ABC to...

Which knowledge and ideas are brought into the design of food markets by developers and operators of food markets and negotiated with the municipalities (administration, politics)? This article deals with the dynamics and logics of physical space production in relation to food markets, in...

In this dissertation, I take interest in crowdsourcing and architectural competitions as I focus on examining how a crowdsourcing platform works in the building industry and how the practices unfolding on it relates to - and maybe mimics - architectural competitions. The platform is operated and...

Introduction: "Old ships [sail] like swans asleep ... for Famagusta and the hidden sun" -- A holy site for sailors: Our Lady of the Cave in Famagusta / Michele Bacci -- Placed in the midst of enemies?: material evidence for the existence of maritime cultural networks connecting...

Intro -- -- Danksagung -- Abstract -- 1. Einleitung -- 1.1 Warenwelten - eine Einführung -- 1.2 Forschungslage -- 1.3 Zielsetzung -- 1.4 Vorgehensweise -- 2. Warenwelten im Wandel - eine Genese -- 2.1 Das Prinzip Tausch als Urform des Handels -- 2.2 Die Agora als erstes Handelszentrum -- 2.3...

Architekturbegriffe spielen in der Wirtschaftsinformatik eine immer prominentere Rolle. Ein Beleg dafür ist der Begriff der Referenzarchitektur, welcher in einer stetig anteigenden Anzahl an Publikationen verwendet wird. Besonders im Kontext des Begriffs "Industrie 4.0" und...

Corinna Hilbig analysiert in diesem Buch die Erfolgsfaktoren französischer PPP-Fonds. Sie entwickelt ein für den deutschen Markt anwendbares Beteiligungsmodell unter Berücksichtigung der Anforderungen des Kapitalanlagegesetzbuches. Die Autorin zeigt anhand von Praxisbeispielen, wie ein...

This book presents the history of modern architecture in Swedish housing. It is essential reading, especially at a time when a lack of accommodation is having such a brutal impact on Swedish society. However, this has not always been the case. Decisive public policies implemented during the 20th...

Mobilde Endgeräte halten immer stärker Einzug in den beruflichen Alltag. Beispielsweise wird mittlerweile die Warenannahme in vielen Betrieben über Tablets abgewickelt oder die Nachbestellung von Waren aus den Supermarktregalen wird über mobile Endgeräte ausgeführt. Diese Entwicklung weg...