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The Processes and Theories of the Smart City

By: Melissa Sessa

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The Processes and Theories of the Smart City

By: Melissa Sessa

This book describes the phenomenon of the smart city in all its facets through sociological lenses. What is a smart city? What social challenges is it addressing? What are its limits and what are its potentialities? The concept of the smart city is still somewhat unclear, although the smart city project is currently at the forefront of society. Through a precise analysis of the concept of “smart”, the book provides a holistic definition of what constitutes a smart city. It will guide readers who want to analyse and describe the smart city, not only in the sociological field, but also in the technical-scientific field, and for those who want to explore its limits, its potentialities and its future developments.

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Smart Society

A Sociological Perspective on Smart Living

By: Roberta Iannone,Romina Gurashi,Ilaria Iannuzzi,Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe,Melissa Sessa

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A Sociological Perspective on Smart Living

By: Roberta Iannone,Romina Gurashi,Ilaria Iannuzzi,Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe,Melissa Sessa

Increasingly, we hear of ‘smart’ cities, communities, governance and people as constituting the basis of initiatives by which we might address various social and environmental problems, particularly those connected with sustainability, usually by means of an ‘intelligent’ connection with the ‘network society’. This book addresses the issues raised by the emergence of ‘smart’ dimensions and initiatives in society, critically engaging with questions surrounding the feasibility of what smart initiatives propose and the extent to which they can really offer solutions to the challenges we face. With attention to the notion of ‘smart’ as applied to the individual, the community, politics and the home, the authors consider the interconnections between these various facets of ‘smart living’ and their relationship to the notion of the smart society as a whole. Drawing on a concrete study of an attempt to concretize smart ideas in the design of a smart, solar home as part of an international project, Smart Society offers the first extended sociological engagement with the notion of smart living.

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Routledge

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0429574851

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Human Rights and Drug Control

A New Perspective

By: Melissa Bone

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Human Rights and Drug Control

A New Perspective

By: Melissa Bone

This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally – to change the way in which we think about drug control issues. The prohibitionist approach towards tackling the ‘drugs problem’ is not working. The laws and mentality that see drugs as the problem and tries to fight them, makes the ‘drugs problem’ worse. While the law is the best-placed mechanism to regulate our actions in relation to particular drugs, this book argues against the stranglehold of the criminal law, and instead presents a human rights perspective to change the way we think about drug control issues. Part I develops a conceptual framework for human rights in the context of drug control – philosophically, politically and legally – and applies this to the domestic (UK) and international drug control system. Part II focuses on case law to illustrate both the potential and the limitations of successfully applying this unique perspective in practice. The conclusion points towards a bottom-up process for drug policy which is capable of reconfiguring the mentality of prohibition. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights, criminal law, criminology, politics and socio-legal studies.

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1315310198

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The Processes and Theories of the Smart City

By: Melissa Sessa

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Filippo Strozzi and the Medici

Favor and Finance in Sixteenth-Century Florence and Rome

By: Melissa Meriam Bullard

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Filippo Strozzi and the Medici

Favor and Finance in Sixteenth-Century Florence and Rome

By: Melissa Meriam Bullard

Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538), the Florentine aristocrat and banker, is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life. Forced into exile, he became an outspoken defender of the last Florentine Republic against the tyranny of the city's new dukes. His place in Florentine history, however, changes drastically when we focus not on his final years but on his extensive career as a Medici favourite and loyal financier. At the courts of the Medici popes he furthered the grandiose schemes of Leo X and Clement VII and accumulated a personal fortune of legendary size. Dr Bullard's study reassesses Strozzi's place in Renaissance history and considers the more general problems of paper economy and war finance, and Florentine political life, in the early sixteenth century. It documents the intricate financial ties between Florence and the papal court, and Strozzi's key role as a manipulator of the city's public funds to pay for papal wars.

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052108816X

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Smart Society

A Sociological Perspective on Smart Living

By: Roberta Iannone,Romina Gurashi,Ilaria Iannuzzi,Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe,Melissa Sessa

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A Sociological Perspective on Smart Living

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The Processes and Theories of the Smart City

The Processes and Theories of the Smart City

Smart Society

Smart Society

Human Rights and Drug Control

Human Rights and Drug Control

The Processes and Theories of the Smart City

The Processes and Theories of the Smart City

Filippo Strozzi and the Medici

Filippo Strozzi and the Medici

Smart Society

Smart Society

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