As Azerbaijan prepares to resettle hundreds of thousands of its citizens in the territory it retook during last year’s war, it has embraced a new development concept: “smart villages.” The idea has ...

This article considers the smart village concept as a new instrument for creating European Union (EU) policies on a territorial microscale. The goal was to identify the key resources that determine ...

The concept of smart villages encapsulates a holistic approach to rural development by harnessing digitalisation, innovative technologies and community engagement to overcome longstanding challenges ...

The solution to the problem of water is water. This might seem like a paradox, but it’s the foundation of a new habitat concept that could very well save coastal communities, including ...

A hypermodern settlement has been built in territory that was recently the scene of brutal fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces. 1 A group of internally-displaced families visit Agali, in ...