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The degree of freedom or coercion in society affects the ability to build buildings and to create architecture of distinction. This paper explores the ways in which modern democratic societies have reduced classic property rights, and thus reduced an owner or developer's ability to build as he judges best for his own needs or his customers. A brief description is given of free market alternatives to existing statist regulatory approaches to property and land‐use regulation.

The small town of Montefrío, in the north of the province of Granada, has a very interesting artistic heritage. Although considerable attention has already been paid to its religious architecture, the present paper is concerned with an overview of the c ivil and municipal architecture of Montefrío, in connection with the development of town planning. ; Este pequeño municipio situado al norte de la provincia de Granada posee uno de los patrimonios artísticos más interesantes. Aunque hasta el momento se han realizado numerosos estudios sobre su interesantísima arquitectura religiosa, en el trabajo que nos ocupa se intentará mostrar una visión de conjunto de los edificios civiles en paralelo a la evolución urbana del municipio.

It is Very Difficult, in Fact Impossible, to Review Properly What is in fact an incomplete work, one in which many years separate the writing and publication of the first entries from the last ones and in which so much remains to be done. My purpose, in the remarks which follow, is to identify the main policy decisions that seem to have been made in presenting the architecture of the Iranian world, to comment at some length about the success or failure of entries dealing with various categories of presentation, and, all along, to make suggestions about ways of improving access to the information that has been provided. In most cases I did not identify the names of authors, because all of them made choices as to how to interpret their assignments, and the discussion of such choices is not useful in a review at this stage. Competence in the knowledge of their field is clear for all writers, and there are only a few cases of scholars who had not kept up with information or interpretation and whose articles are lacking in substance.

This paper aims to produce a justified, generic, pictorial architecture of the relationships between resources and competences within firms. It begins by providing definitions of the nature, scope and relationships between resources, capabilities and competences from the resource and competence literatures. In so doing, theory is refined and a linked resource and competence architecture is developed. The architecture distinguishes between high‐level competences that customers recognize, for example fast product delivery, and competences that support high‐level competences but are less visible customers, like competences in rapid knowledge acquisition and deployment. An empirical example is then used to illustrate how the architecture enables the construction of structured pictures of connected competences and co‐ordinated resources within a manufacturing business. Finally, the architecture is critiqued and its value for managers in structuring competence performance improvement activities is discussed.

Architecture has become an important discourse for new expressions of post-national identity in general and in particular for the emergence of a `spatial' European identity. No longer tied to the state to the same degree as in the period of nation-building, architecture has become a significant cultural expression of post-national identities within and beyond the nation-state. The article looks at four such discourses, first, taking the Millennium Dome in London and the Reichstag in Berlin, we show that architecture can express in a reflexive way contested and ambiguous national identities; second, the case of architecture in post-communist European societies illustrates the dual identity of architecture as a project of building and of re-building; third, the EU's search for a cultural form is discussed with respect to the architectural designs on the Euro banknotes; and finally the question of architecture as a relation to a lived space is considered with regard to cityscapes as yet another expression of a tendentially spatialized European identity.