Summary of JOIE Article by Kaleb Demerew West Texas A&M University, USA, Samson Faboye, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Sampson Edodi, University of Abuja, Nigeria. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Federalism has long been proposed as a governance solution for multiethnic African states struggling with identity-based conflict. Yet, despite constitutional…
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Comparing Ostrom’s Design Principles to Habraken’s Open-Building Framework: Disentangling a Polycentric Built Environment
Summary of JOIE article ( 2 March 2021) by John B. Horowitz, Department of Economics, Ball State University, Muncie, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website. From the 1960s through the 1990s, architect John Habraken and a few like-minded architects developed the Open-Building framework because they were concerned about centralized control of the built environment and wanted…