Publishing Research in Digital Government: A Discussion with Editors-in-Chief of Key Journals

Publishing research in reputable academic journals is an important objective for researchers in digital government, as in any scientific field. Researchers are under constant pressure to publish their work in highly reputable journals. As a result, a number of facts and myths exist regarding publishing in reputable digital government journals....

Women's Studies at the Architecture Department of Delft Technical University

This paper discusses the section for Women’s Studies at the Department of Architecture in Delft (ca. 1978-2000). It describes the circumstances that made it possible that such a section came to exist. And it investigates what the activities of the section were, and what the impact of this section has been.

“Shall we compete?”

Following previous research on competitions from Portuguese architects abroad we propose to show a risomatic string of politic, economic and sociologic events that show why competitions are so much appealing. We will follow Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto de Moura as the former opens the first doors to competitions and the latter follows...

Experiences with process interaction based simulation in education and research

The global issue "mega-urbanization": An unsolvable challenge for stakeholders, researchers and residents?

This study aims at discussing the complex, multi-dimensional issue of the global phenomenon of urbanization. Based on a theoretical review and discussion on the situation of cities, the causes, dimensions and consequences of urban growth the idea is to raise the main questions for future activities to meet this challenge. For it a pragmatic and...

A cognitive approach to research and education

What do we mean by research? How could we explain it in terms of a semantic network? Do we need to make research to learn? Is it necessary for our own education as a researcher? Does it make a substantial contribution to educating ourselves? Do researchers need teaching to improve their research. What kind of methods could we use for research...

Issue-based research methods versus a single method for all subjects at hand

Along with the evolution, human kind has developed several methods to reach their goals. Many books and text are written to represent and express diverse ideas about this issue thanks to instinctive curiosity of mankind. These methods can vary from subjects to subjects. I will treat these above mentioned issue within this paper to exhibit an...