Sustainable tall building and Vertical compact city
... Another is the efficiency of sustainable super tall buildings in terms of the environment, society and the economy. Super tall building lessens environment load and establishes social and economic sustainability as well as efforts to build a new dimension of artistic and cultural sustainable high-ri ...
... Another is the efficiency of sustainable super tall buildings in terms of the environment, society and the economy. Super tall building lessens environment load and establishes social and economic sustainability as well as efforts to build a new dimension of artistic and cultural sustainable high-ri ...
C. Visual Quality and Urban Design
... Environmental Setting Visual Character The visual character of the project area is varied, reflecting the unique characteristics of each neighborhood’s natural and built elements. However, it is possible to describe some general characteristics that establish the project area’s visual setting. The t ...
... Environmental Setting Visual Character The visual character of the project area is varied, reflecting the unique characteristics of each neighborhood’s natural and built elements. However, it is possible to describe some general characteristics that establish the project area’s visual setting. The t ...
Architecture and Evolutionary Psychology
... Permanent buildings developed later, beginning about 10,000 years ago, after agriculture allowed fixed settlements. Agriculture and domestication of animals are relatively recent and have not had much effect on human evolution. There have been some evolutionary changes since then, but these changes ...
... Permanent buildings developed later, beginning about 10,000 years ago, after agriculture allowed fixed settlements. Agriculture and domestication of animals are relatively recent and have not had much effect on human evolution. There have been some evolutionary changes since then, but these changes ...
the extremely condensed hybrid urban block
... Precedents in the Netherlands Already in the seventeenth century the building for the First Stock Exchange in Amsterdam (1609), which was located right in the middle of the city centre, stacked a diverse program consisting of infrastructure and commerce. The inner court, where the goods were actuall ...
... Precedents in the Netherlands Already in the seventeenth century the building for the First Stock Exchange in Amsterdam (1609), which was located right in the middle of the city centre, stacked a diverse program consisting of infrastructure and commerce. The inner court, where the goods were actuall ...
Living in Cities: The Relationship between Urbanization
... suggesting that Indonesia’s mega-urbanization is an ongoing effort to integrate major cities like Jakarta and Bandung together. This therefore means that both rural and urban activites will be integrated together. Thailand and Indonesia are thus very different to each other, Thailand’s export depend ...
... suggesting that Indonesia’s mega-urbanization is an ongoing effort to integrate major cities like Jakarta and Bandung together. This therefore means that both rural and urban activites will be integrated together. Thailand and Indonesia are thus very different to each other, Thailand’s export depend ...
public spaces and associated development
... Adequate provision of cycle tracks and parking should be provided. Initiatives such as bicycle loan schemes should be investigated. An appropriate balance between pedestrian and vehicular traffic should be created. Communal space in residential and commercial areas should be detailed to create pedes ...
... Adequate provision of cycle tracks and parking should be provided. Initiatives such as bicycle loan schemes should be investigated. An appropriate balance between pedestrian and vehicular traffic should be created. Communal space in residential and commercial areas should be detailed to create pedes ...
Housing Complexes in Upper Silesian Cities Built in 1921
... worker housing estate of the early 20th century. As a border city, Zabrze became an important urban centre, which brought about a house building boom. Not only did a number of new houses grow, but their character changed as well. The chief architect of the city of Zabrze, M. Wolf (from 1924 on), pro ...
... worker housing estate of the early 20th century. As a border city, Zabrze became an important urban centre, which brought about a house building boom. Not only did a number of new houses grow, but their character changed as well. The chief architect of the city of Zabrze, M. Wolf (from 1924 on), pro ...
Climate-responsive residential buildings in India. Just a drop in the
... All around the world, cities enhance their economic, cultural and social attractiveness increasing population and infrastructures. In a global context of climate change, the urban area’s environmental footprint and sustainability need to be investigated and monitored, in the attempt to find strategi ...
... All around the world, cities enhance their economic, cultural and social attractiveness increasing population and infrastructures. In a global context of climate change, the urban area’s environmental footprint and sustainability need to be investigated and monitored, in the attempt to find strategi ...
Looking for New Ideas of Public Space
... information aspects of this process. Simultaneously the public space should play an important role when building the quality of revitalization programs and the quality of city development. The new art and cultural activities are the revitalization tools, which are also the good examples of bottom up ...
... information aspects of this process. Simultaneously the public space should play an important role when building the quality of revitalization programs and the quality of city development. The new art and cultural activities are the revitalization tools, which are also the good examples of bottom up ...
High-Density Forms in Contemporary Architecture
... understanding the way in which high-density architectural forms draw attention again, after a period in which they have been perceived and discussed as a negative phenomenon [2]. High-density architecture has dual connotations, both positive and negative, and the balance between the two is sensitive ...
... understanding the way in which high-density architectural forms draw attention again, after a period in which they have been perceived and discussed as a negative phenomenon [2]. High-density architecture has dual connotations, both positive and negative, and the balance between the two is sensitive ...
Terms
... Why has the city been undertheorized in anthropology? Urban analysis has been left to a group of scholars who draw from architecture, history, geography, planning, sociology, and economics (33, 43, 79, 80, 210, 216, 222, 224, 254), bringing their unique interdisciplinary skills to the study of the c ...
... Why has the city been undertheorized in anthropology? Urban analysis has been left to a group of scholars who draw from architecture, history, geography, planning, sociology, and economics (33, 43, 79, 80, 210, 216, 222, 224, 254), bringing their unique interdisciplinary skills to the study of the c ...
Ancien conservatoire . paris 13
... At the end of the 1980s a real estate complex crowned with a multicoloured campanile was constructed around the Place d’Italie by architect Kenzo Tange, originally containing the Grand Ecran Italie (closed in 2006) cinema complex at the front of the Italie 2 shopping mall. The building is an old cul ...
... At the end of the 1980s a real estate complex crowned with a multicoloured campanile was constructed around the Place d’Italie by architect Kenzo Tange, originally containing the Grand Ecran Italie (closed in 2006) cinema complex at the front of the Italie 2 shopping mall. The building is an old cul ...
Please note special days and/or hours for each site. Much more
... The current Office/Chapel/ Crematory (all one building) was designed by Frank Edbrooke in 1903, in the Prairie Mission style. It was the 1st crematory in Colorado and was last used in the 1980’s. The Riverside Revival, in its 5th year, is developing an environmentally sustainable landscape to preser ...
... The current Office/Chapel/ Crematory (all one building) was designed by Frank Edbrooke in 1903, in the Prairie Mission style. It was the 1st crematory in Colorado and was last used in the 1980’s. The Riverside Revival, in its 5th year, is developing an environmentally sustainable landscape to preser ...
Air temperature regulation by urban trees and green infrastructure
... When arranged throughout a city as street trees, green roofs, gardens and greenspaces, vegetation and water features have a collective net cooling impact on average city-wide temperature (Ca, Asaeda and Abu, 1998; Yu and Hien, 2006). The role of trees is particularly important. Measurements from sub ...
... When arranged throughout a city as street trees, green roofs, gardens and greenspaces, vegetation and water features have a collective net cooling impact on average city-wide temperature (Ca, Asaeda and Abu, 1998; Yu and Hien, 2006). The role of trees is particularly important. Measurements from sub ...
eine Fallstudie der Sonne, Wind, und Licht
... Mies designed the building to have flexible floor plans. He intended for only the stairwells and elevators to have fixed locations and walls. The units would have semi-permanent kitchens and bathrooms, but the rest of the floor would be open plan. Tenants could easily add walls to create rooms to s ...
... Mies designed the building to have flexible floor plans. He intended for only the stairwells and elevators to have fixed locations and walls. The units would have semi-permanent kitchens and bathrooms, but the rest of the floor would be open plan. Tenants could easily add walls to create rooms to s ...
yap
... Erasmian Garden, is a place where you can read and celebrate stillness. A garden in a garden, the university, wine. In the past the park was self explanatory, the antithesis of the city. In every significant city there was a rich urban park. Nowadays, this rich place is gone. The current urban lands ...
... Erasmian Garden, is a place where you can read and celebrate stillness. A garden in a garden, the university, wine. In the past the park was self explanatory, the antithesis of the city. In every significant city there was a rich urban park. Nowadays, this rich place is gone. The current urban lands ...
Three Points of the Residential High-Rise: Designing
... differ in composition from post-war years. Today’s families live in multi-generational and extended combinations that sometimes include friends and un-related adults. The Garden in the Machine provides an alternative model to the suburban ideal of housing that was specifically designed for the nucle ...
... differ in composition from post-war years. Today’s families live in multi-generational and extended combinations that sometimes include friends and un-related adults. The Garden in the Machine provides an alternative model to the suburban ideal of housing that was specifically designed for the nucle ...
Component 1, Part 3 Japan`s Urban Cultural Landscapes
... which includes Tokyo, has a population larger than Canada within an area slightly larger than Connecticut. With a population density of 343 persons per sq. km. (only three countries have higher population densities: Bangladesh, South Korea, and the Netherlands) it is no surprise that Japan often sel ...
... which includes Tokyo, has a population larger than Canada within an area slightly larger than Connecticut. With a population density of 343 persons per sq. km. (only three countries have higher population densities: Bangladesh, South Korea, and the Netherlands) it is no surprise that Japan often sel ...
Three Points of the Residential High-Rise: Designing for
... self-shading to create social space around the buildings. The idea to implement solar carving for the design of an office building in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan stemmed from analyzing the building envelope allowed by the local zoning ordinance. Adjacent to the site, on the interior of the ...
... self-shading to create social space around the buildings. The idea to implement solar carving for the design of an office building in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan stemmed from analyzing the building envelope allowed by the local zoning ordinance. Adjacent to the site, on the interior of the ...
The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877– 1920
... attitudes toward poverty—attitudes that blamed the victim—restricted what most Americans were willing to do to alleviate poverty. Even private agencies insisted on extending aid only to the “worthy poor” and on teaching the moral virtues of thrift and sobriety. Urban areas also had to contend with c ...
... attitudes toward poverty—attitudes that blamed the victim—restricted what most Americans were willing to do to alleviate poverty. Even private agencies insisted on extending aid only to the “worthy poor” and on teaching the moral virtues of thrift and sobriety. Urban areas also had to contend with c ...
Unit 25 Urbanization 25.1 Introduction 25.2 Urban, Urbanism
... Urbanization as a Political – Administrative Process The administrative and political developments have played an important role in urbanization in the past and they continue to be relevant today. From about the 5th century BC to the 18th century AD, urban centers in India emerged, declined or even ...
... Urbanization as a Political – Administrative Process The administrative and political developments have played an important role in urbanization in the past and they continue to be relevant today. From about the 5th century BC to the 18th century AD, urban centers in India emerged, declined or even ...
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... Tree Space - The area that is dedicated for planting and growing a street tree. Synonymous with tree pit or tree box. Tower (Building) - The portion of a building located above the building base. The tower can vary in height but is primarily comprised of active uses, and does not include parking. Tr ...
... Tree Space - The area that is dedicated for planting and growing a street tree. Synonymous with tree pit or tree box. Tower (Building) - The portion of a building located above the building base. The tower can vary in height but is primarily comprised of active uses, and does not include parking. Tr ...
URBAN RENAISSANCE - FYM
... is to make cities environmentally and socially sustainable. The game of sustainable development will be one that is played out mainly in urban areas. The numbers speak for themselves: on both sides of the equator, the global population is rising. The weight of the past, when quantity was often value ...
... is to make cities environmentally and socially sustainable. The game of sustainable development will be one that is played out mainly in urban areas. The numbers speak for themselves: on both sides of the equator, the global population is rising. The weight of the past, when quantity was often value ...
Study Guide - Cengage Learning
... Moreover, the mass production of sound and images made possible by the phonograph and the still camera dissolved the uniqueness of experience. Even news was transformed into big business and a mass commodity by the “yellow journalism” tactics of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Mass ente ...
... Moreover, the mass production of sound and images made possible by the phonograph and the still camera dissolved the uniqueness of experience. Even news was transformed into big business and a mass commodity by the “yellow journalism” tactics of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. Mass ente ...