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Canonical entrepreneurship scholars (Schumpeter, Hayek, and others) have argued that entrepreneurial innovation and initiative is a critical part of "creative destruction"--the sometimes difficult process of building social arrangements that challenge and topple existing, less capable predecessors. Although the revitalizing potential of entrepreneurship has often been studied in the context of commercial start-up businesses, recent scholarship on institutional entrepreneurship highlights the kinship between for-profit entrepreneurship and the equally transformative innovation and initiative of entrepreneurs in the nonprofit, community, and policy-activist fields. This expanded exploration of entrepreneurial potential has become important in the creative destruction--or, more accurately, "creative reclamation"--of abandoned or under-used industrial relics and urban space. My project uses case studies in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, where community groups have deployed or are attempting to deploy symbolism and narrative to re-purpose abandoned urban infrastructure into urban public spaces.

The new Fortifications Interpretation Centre is the new use assigned to the 16th century Hospitaller warehouse in Valletta. The project started out at a time when the main fortifications in Malta, namely those of Valletta, Birgu, Mdina and Cittadella (Gozo) started to be restored under the partly financed European Regional Development Fund (Operational Programme I) by the Restoration Directorate within the Ministry for Resources and Rural Affairs. The Fortress Builders FIC was a €2,100,000 project undertaken by the same Restoration Directorate and also granted European Union part funding under the same ERDF programme, with a co-funding rate of 85% EU Funds and 15% National Funds. The building was chosen largely for its vast interior spaces and its location which provides direct access to Valletta's ramparts. The need to transmit to the public that which is Malta's patrimony of forts and fortifications was met through the rehabilitation of an unused and abandoned building. The centre is hosted in St. Mark's Street, Valletta on one of the main entry routes into the city providing direct access to Valletta's ramparts. Its vicinity to St. Andrew's Bastion places it on an important access route into Valletta and more over, provides direct immediate access to Valletta's main bastioned enceinte, providing excellent panoramic views of the fortifications inside Marsamxett Harbour, namely Fort Manoel, Fort Tigné and the sea walls along the northern flank of the city itself. The building is a 16th century warehouse adjoining St. Andrew's Bastion located next to the Marsamxett Gate (no longer standing) which is one of the three main gateways into Valletta. It was built for the storage of merchandise off-loaded from the ships and other vessels berthed in Marsamxett harbour. Its location close to the Falconeria (a building that was used as reserve armoury from the mid-1700s onwards) also suggests some form of military use. The project involved reconstruction works, alteration works, new construction works, interior and exterior restoration works of the masonry building fabric (both walls and floors), restoration of original timber apertures, the installation of new timber apertures, finishing works, the introduction of power generating photovoltaic cells, rainwater collection and reuse, restoration and reuse of original passive ventilation systems, furnishing works, exhibition design and exhibition content formulation – panels, physical models and virtual representations. ; peer-reviewed

This study discusses the proposal which consists of financing large-scale infrastructureinvestments by issuing EU bonds, first introduced by President Delors in his White Paper on"Growth, Competitiveness and Employment" in 1993. This proposal has been partlyimplemented insofar as the European Commission and the EIB have financed a number oflarge projects. But it is not considered as a major tool of European economic policy.Monetary policy is the major instrument of short and medium-run oriented strategies whilefiscal policy is mainly devoted to the reduction of public deficits and debts. From a morestructural point of view, European policies stress the liberalisation of product and labourmarkets over the last years. In the current context, shall the proposal on large-scaleinvestments be abandoned or shall it still be part of European strategy? (.).

This study discusses the proposal which consists of financing large-scale infrastructureinvestments by issuing EU bonds, first introduced by President Delors in his White Paper on"Growth, Competitiveness and Employment" in 1993. This proposal has been partlyimplemented insofar as the European Commission and the EIB have financed a number oflarge projects. But it is not considered as a major tool of European economic policy.Monetary policy is the major instrument of short and medium-run oriented strategies whilefiscal policy is mainly devoted to the reduction of public deficits and debts. From a morestructural point of view, European policies stress the liberalisation of product and labourmarkets over the last years. In the current context, shall the proposal on large-scaleinvestments be abandoned or shall it still be part of European strategy? (.).

This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities. It offers a review of project feasibility analysis, and more critically, psychodynamic aspects that are often neglected, including how stakeholders interact. It provides a complement to the common techniques used for analyzing technical, financial, and marketing feasibility. The goal is to identify "hidden truths" and eliminate those gray areas that jeopardize the success of a given project. The focus is on uncovering points of vulnerabilities in four key aspects of a project: People, Power, Processes, and Plan.

This book is a collection of essays which span three decades, capping research into the Polish Solidarity movement and its impact on social change. The major one reports on the author's 1981 study on the formation of the Solidarity movement and trade union, one of two research projects on Solidarity carried out at the time. The idea of debating (deliberative) democracy fostered by Solidarity proved an unfulfilled utopia. It was abandoned by the new political elite and by Poles, who used freedom to develop individual, ambitious and aggressive career paths in order to attain West-European living standards. While Polish religiosity and the Catholic Church, led by Pope John Paul II, vitally promoted peaceable resistance to communism, now the Church has morphed into an anti-democratic political and cultural actor.

1978: In Rhodesia, the Internal Settlement led to the creation of a coalition government. Smith had, however, neither capitulated nor abandoned his belief in white superiority, and thousands of people fled across the countryís borders.In England, a group of missionaries, supported by the Catholic Institute for International Relations, formed a steering group that was to become the Zimbabwe Project. Originally an educational fund to support exiled young Zimbabweans, it shifted focus toward humanitarian assistance to refugees in the region.1981: The Zimbabwe Project Trust, a child of the war, ca.

Projects on the establishment of world peace in the late Middle Ages were initially marked by religious views on the world. Christian church was the subject of war and peace and it did not make differences among peoples. It had universal aspirations. This dogmatic comprehension will be abandoned by the appearance of national states where the state becomes subject of war and peace. A division among nations appears and the possibility of their mutual recognition. In that way relations among states are being regulated from the point of view of international relations. His basic principle becomes the one of sovereign equality, this could happen after the termination of religious wars which got its peak by Westphalia peace. Starting from Dubois, Podjebrady, Penn, Duke of Silly, via Hobbes, Grotius end Puffendorf, it will be possible to determine how changes in society political systems and way of production influenced the developments of ideas on perpetual peace. The achievements of these thinkers were revolutionary and were still valid. It is worth mentioning the principles of sovereign equality of states, the presence of realism in international relations and the existence of judicial institutions such as the International Court of Justice.

Because of the duration, depth and devastation of the Lebanese conflict, Lebanese women's roles changed drastically during the war. Many women lost their husbands, whi Ie others were abandoned and left to fend for themselves as the social order disintegrated. Women's traditional sources of income and other means ofsubsistence in their villages of origin were lost.

Agricultural land abandonment is a key driver of land use change in Europe. At the same time, urban land cover is expanding rapidly, often resulting in increasingly limited public access to green spaces. Within this context, this exploratory study sought to explore the feasibility of siting community allotment gardens on abandoned agricultural land within the small island state of Malta. Such an initiative could serve a dual purpose, i.e., limiting degradation of abandoned land on the one hand, and providing increased opportunities for community interaction with nature, on the other. Feasibility was explored in three steps, focusing on place, people, and policy, respectively. First, land within the peri-urban regions of three municipalities was identified and evaluated for suitability on the basis of specific criteria adapted for the local context. Second, interviews were employed to explore the views of members of the public and of other relevant stakeholders, and to identify potential coali- tions of support. Finally, existing legal and policy frameworks for land-use planning were evaluated to determine the extent to which they are able to accommodate such land repurposing. Results showed that suitable land is available within all three municipalities considered. Furthermore, there is clear public support for the estab- lishment of such allotments, as well as moderate interest by respondents in participating actively through rental of plots. However, institutional barriers in the policy sphere would need to be addressed. Key recommendations include the creation of a dedicated allotments policy, empowerment of local government authorities, and es- tablishment of collaborative partnerships between governmental and non-governmental actors. Successful im- plementation of such a project would also require better streamlining of land ownership data and an ability to ensure security of tenure. ; peer-reviewed

In May 1962 the Office of Naval Research and the CIA launched one of the most exotic and successful spy missions of the Cold War: the parachuting of two intelligence officers onto a hastily abandoned Soviet drift station on a deteriorating Arctic ice pack to collect data, and their retrieval using an experimental aerial recovery technique. This book, coauthored by one of those officers and a leading of CIA historian, offers a first-time description of the top secret mission. It combines page-turning adventure with a detailed inside look at the U.S.-Soviet race to conquer the Arctic at the height of the Cold War

Taken from a research project entitled Re-Loaded City: Strategies of ReCycle to Restart the City, based in the city of Palermo, this book tests means of reinvigorating abandoned and wasted urban space. Reclaiming polluted or destitute land is a difficult process. However, by conceptualising it as a recycling of urban space, this book approaches the subject in a fresh and optimistic manner.

The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed. Experienced researchers write about projects they planned, and were excited about, which then never began, had to be abandoned, or took such unexpected directions that it became a different piece of work altogether. The topics and settings are varied and disparate, but the lessons learnt have important similarities. This collection focuses on absences; topics and settings that remain under researched; taken for granted aspects of social life that have not been scrutinized, and finally the potential insights that are gained when absences are carefully examined and explored. Readers will learn a great deal about research design, fundraising, writing up, access negotiations, serendipity in the field, and the complex interaction between the body and the brain of the ethnographer and the realities of ethnographic research. Maximising learning from the failings' of ourselves and of others is the positive message of the collection. The most poignant chapters are those in which the author returns' to reread and reflect on a past project; something that is not done often enough, partly because it can be painful. The accounts of projects which had to be abandoned or radically changed offer hope to researchers facing difficulties in their own investigations. These reflections, on projects that were never even begun, show how to gain fresh energy and social science insight from apparent rejection, and the collection approaches the whole concept of lost ethnography in provocative ways.

"Our Germans is a highly engaging history of one of the United States' most controversial intelligence operations during the early Cold War. Project Paperclip brought fifteen hundred German scientists and their dependents to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment and documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the "German brains" who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other "wonder weapons" for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America's emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state."--Provided by publisher