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Special Issue: Proceedings of the Conference "Folding and Unfolding: Interactions from Geometry" Edited by G. Esposito, A. Messina, P. Vitale
No full textPreface to the proceedings of the conference
"Folding and unfolding: Interactions from geometry. Proceedings, Ischia, Italy, 8-12 June 2011
Independent Developers: The invisible urban regenerators
No full textMost of today’s urban development and regeneration is being provided by the private
sector. Cities are being regenerated and redeveloped by institutional developers with
projects that can change entire neighbourhoods and city centres. The majority of these
developers are interested primarily in institutional properties and other buildings that are
large enough to generate the required returns and revenues without bearing too much risks.
There are also areas and neighbourhoods that do not experience institutional development
and investment because their developmental values and sites are not encouraging to them.
Nevertheless, some of these areas gained economic growth and were regenerated without
any institutional developers being involved. These kinds of regenerations are either a result
of community development or they are the outcome of independent development. This type
of development culture is not much studied yet. Independent developers are the invisibles
working in the shadows of the big institutional property developers that are often covered in
the media and literature. Hardly anybody notices and writes about these small and
independent developers that, although developing smaller projects, still have an impact on
and are important for urban regeneration. This analysis of independent developers and their
projects will provide information on their approach to property development. The report will
discuss the major differences between institutional and independent development and how
they each address topics like location, market, intervention and funding. By drawing on
examples from interviews, literature and other publications, the report will examine
independent property developers in more detail and try to analyse their role and their
contribution to urban regeneration
The Gribov problem in noncommutative gauge theory
No full textfter reviewing Gribov ambiguity of non-Abelian gauge theories, a phenomenon relatedto the topology of the bundle of gauge connections, we show that there is a similar feature fornoncommutative QED over Moyal space, despite the structure group being Abelian, and weexhibit an infinite number of solutions for the equation of Gribov copies. This is a genuineeffect of noncommutative geometry which disappears when the noncommutative parametervanishes
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