Popular debates about AI and democracy rest on misconceptions about both democracy and AI. Theodore Lechterman, an ascendant thinker in the philosophy and governance of AI, dismantles these misconceptions and shows how to rethink democracy for an algorithmic age. Recoding Democracy reveals that democratizing AI is not...

La fuerza de una sociedad no se mide solo por sus instituciones, sino por el compromiso de su gente. La sociedad civil y la participación ciudadana son el motor que impulsa cambios, construye puentes y da voz a quienes buscan un futuro más justo e inclusivo....

Read the book here! It is often assumed that architects and urban planners are responsible for shaping our cities. Especially since the onset of global capitalism, however,much urban expansion worldwide has been driven by developers and builders in the pursuit of profit. Despite the considerable...

Includes a Foreword written by Peter Tomka, Judge and former President of the International Court of Justice. This book is the first systematic study of the objections to jurisdiction and admissibility in investment arbitration by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The authors...

This volume centers on the Red Book, a little-known 1967 research document that served as the conceptual foundation for Festival Plaza, the central space of Expo ’70 in Osaka. Produced by an extraordinary coalition of architects, artists, engineers, computer scientists, musicians, and writers, the Red Book proposed a...

The world of business stands at a crossroads. While there is general agreement that its impact on business will resemble that of previous General Purpose Technologies like electricity or the internet, business leaders are overwhelmed by the noise around Artificial Intelligence and struggling to make complex...

Lilly Reich in Barcelona: The Materialization of a Neglected Authorship studies the work that Lilly Reich (1885–1947) developed in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart before partnering with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), as well as the work they later produced together in creative tandem: from the...

While technological innovation has long reshaped artistic and cultural practices, the rise of generative AI (Gen AI) represents an unprecedenteddisruption due to its scale, speed, and capacity to produce outputs that can rival and surpass human creativity. This edited book examines how AI istransforming creativity,...

This monograph brings together several of the papers presented at the seminars organized within the framework of the project on leadership and civic engagement, funded by the Tatiana Foundation. Between 2022 and 2024, the project was carried out in collaboration with 16 Spanish public universities,...

The Arab world’s modern built environment was shaped largely during a period when several Arab countries were on the cusp of gaining independence from colonial rule. Contributions in this volume present Arab modern architecture based on previously overlooked figures, narratives, and experiences. Projects from North...

This book demonstrates that art is implicit in the process of administration of international justice. The diverse nature of recent global threats as well as an overwhelming pull towards isolationism and nationalism challenge the dominant deterrence paradigm of international governance created in the aftermath of...

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