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Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source

Masa: Notas breves sobre lo sólido y lo ligero en arquitectura [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
What do we understand by mass in architecture? Are we sure we talk about the same thing? The polysemy of the concept of mass inside and outside the discipline makes it convenient to clarify it to avoid some misunderstandings, or perhaps to further ...
Tárrago Mingo , Jorge
core   +1 more source

From the theory to practice: Five years of urban regeneration workshops

open access: yesJournal of Technology and Science Education, 2018
The aim of this communication is to present the experience of four academic courses in the subject of Integrated Urban and Landscape Design, taught in the framework of the Master in Architecture of the School of Engineering and Architecture of the ...
Raimundo Bambó-Naya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosing Institutional Design‐Implementation Gaps: A Dual‐Layer Systems Modeling Language Protocol for Visualizing Institutional Change Mechanisms

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This study introduces a dual‐layer protocol for diagnosing how formal institutional designs are implemented in practice in complex governance systems. The protocol builds two linked process maps; one for the formal rules and procedures (rules‐in‐form) and one for the routines actors actually follow in practice (rules‐in‐use).
Sina Jangjoo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Shear to Sound: Mechanics–Acoustics Mapping of TPMS Lattices

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, Volume 28, Issue 14, 22 July 2026.
Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) lattices are mapped across mechanical and acoustic performance, revealing that descriptors validated in compression fail under shear. First‐time comparison with trusses included. A transition from porous to resonance‐driven absorption emerges at 25% density.
Lucía Doyle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Membrana metropolitana costera. Estrategias para proyectar una ciudad híbrida

open access: yesArea
Muchas de nuestras ciudades latinoamericanas se caracterizan por ser espacios fragmentados en continua expansión, no sólo en términos urbanos, sino también en lo social, económico y político.
Luisa Acosta Scandela   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative field‐scale assessment of TLUD and Kon‐Tiki biochar systems: agronomic performance and net CO2e‐based techno‐economics

open access: yesBiofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 1762-1780, July/August 2026.
Abstract Post‐harvest agricultural residues in Latin America are commonly underutilized, leading to greenhouse gas emissions and lost opportunities for bio‐based value creation. This study tests the hypothesis that decentralized, farmer‐scale pyrolysis technologies can deliver comparable agronomic benefits while exhibiting distinct techno‐economic and ...
Juan F. Saldarriaga   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 1003-1019, July 2026.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
wiley   +1 more source

Máquinas de habitar: Hacer arquitectura con las instalaciones [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This book presents a reflection on how to do architecture with installations, that is, to achieve their integration and take advantage of the synergies between the building and the technical systems to generate architecture.
Carrascal García, Teresa
core  

Memoria protésica: Arquitectura después del recuerdo [PDF]

open access: yes
In contemporary architecture, memory has shifted from its role as an operative tool to a rhetorical device, suspended between formal nostalgia and decontextualized abstraction.
Vaillo Usón, Yago   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

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