complex urbarchitectonic structures of priština and novi pazar cities
... ’Megastructures: the City as a Building’ was the ’idea of an urban area as a large, interconnected building’ (Barnett, 1987) usually consisting of covered streets or bridges, plazas and various buildings connected within one structure. In the early 1950s, the influence of science fiction and comic b ...
... ’Megastructures: the City as a Building’ was the ’idea of an urban area as a large, interconnected building’ (Barnett, 1987) usually consisting of covered streets or bridges, plazas and various buildings connected within one structure. In the early 1950s, the influence of science fiction and comic b ...
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 ...
Aalborg Universitet Measuring Device
... There exist some test arrangements that can be brought to a building where the heat loss or a thermal conductivity is being researched. For instance Gerike [8] describes a temperature sensing device adapted to maximize heat transfer from a selected location to the device and Chuah et al.[9] claims a ...
... There exist some test arrangements that can be brought to a building where the heat loss or a thermal conductivity is being researched. For instance Gerike [8] describes a temperature sensing device adapted to maximize heat transfer from a selected location to the device and Chuah et al.[9] claims a ...
Flooding and Historic Buildings
... We know that the risk of flooding is likely to increase as a result of a changing climate and the effects of increased urban development. Estimates suggest the number of people at high risk from flooding could rise from 1.5 million to 3.5 million by 2080. Currently around 400,000 homes and 75,000 bu ...
... We know that the risk of flooding is likely to increase as a result of a changing climate and the effects of increased urban development. Estimates suggest the number of people at high risk from flooding could rise from 1.5 million to 3.5 million by 2080. Currently around 400,000 homes and 75,000 bu ...
Flooding and Historic Buildings
... We know that the risk of flooding is likely to increase as a result of a changing climate and the effects of increased urban development. Estimates suggest the number of people at high risk from flooding could rise from 1.5 million to 3.5 million by 2080. Currently around 400,000 homes and 75,000 bu ...
... We know that the risk of flooding is likely to increase as a result of a changing climate and the effects of increased urban development. Estimates suggest the number of people at high risk from flooding could rise from 1.5 million to 3.5 million by 2080. Currently around 400,000 homes and 75,000 bu ...
Heat Transmission Coefficient Measurements in Buildings Utilizing a
... There exist some test arrangements that can be brought to a building where the heat loss or a thermal conductivity is being researched. For instance Gerike [8] describes a temperature sensing device adapted to maximize heat transfer from a selected location to the device and Chuah et al.[9] claims a ...
... There exist some test arrangements that can be brought to a building where the heat loss or a thermal conductivity is being researched. For instance Gerike [8] describes a temperature sensing device adapted to maximize heat transfer from a selected location to the device and Chuah et al.[9] claims a ...
Campus Design Guidelines - Tecumseh Business and Technology
... buildings (those with footprints measuring around 10,000 gsf to 12,000 gsf) will mainly be located within “build-to zones” in which a mandatory build-to line of 20 feet will be enforced instead of the normal front setback requirement. This arrangement will create clusters of smaller and denser devel ...
... buildings (those with footprints measuring around 10,000 gsf to 12,000 gsf) will mainly be located within “build-to zones” in which a mandatory build-to line of 20 feet will be enforced instead of the normal front setback requirement. This arrangement will create clusters of smaller and denser devel ...
Rain InfraStructu funding for Storm Rain InfraStructure Adapt
... canals and channels have a notable importance for the economy and recreational activities. The overall length of primary and secondary water networks is approx. 640 km [FHH 2005]. As a result of anthropogenic influences or over impression from the preliminary classification using WRRL, the majority ...
... canals and channels have a notable importance for the economy and recreational activities. The overall length of primary and secondary water networks is approx. 640 km [FHH 2005]. As a result of anthropogenic influences or over impression from the preliminary classification using WRRL, the majority ...
København den 26. – 28. september 2012
... communities in the region are Lund, Malmo, Helsingborg and Albertslund. First, the project group with researchers from three universities and practitioners from four municipalities in the region studied and evaluated regional and European projects for sustainable new urban areas and urban transforma ...
... communities in the region are Lund, Malmo, Helsingborg and Albertslund. First, the project group with researchers from three universities and practitioners from four municipalities in the region studied and evaluated regional and European projects for sustainable new urban areas and urban transforma ...
The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877– 1920
... Although scientific and technological breakthroughs improved urban life, the burden of urban poverty remained. While some reformers began to look to environmental factors to explain poverty, traditional attitudes toward poverty—attitudes that blamed the victim—restricted what most Americans were wil ...
... Although scientific and technological breakthroughs improved urban life, the burden of urban poverty remained. While some reformers began to look to environmental factors to explain poverty, traditional attitudes toward poverty—attitudes that blamed the victim—restricted what most Americans were wil ...
A Framework for Assessing Environmental
... population is steadily increasing and it is estimated that 70% of people will live in cities by 2050 (Khare et al. 2011); the impact of urban development on the environment could be even more severe in future. On the other hand, increased consciousness of the environment progressively put more press ...
... population is steadily increasing and it is estimated that 70% of people will live in cities by 2050 (Khare et al. 2011); the impact of urban development on the environment could be even more severe in future. On the other hand, increased consciousness of the environment progressively put more press ...
Chapter 20: Toward an Urban America, 1865-1914
... Why did so many people leave their homelands for the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s? They were “pushed” away by difficult conditions at home and “pulled” to the United States by new opportunities. Many people emigrated, or left their homelands, because of economic troubles. In Italy ...
... Why did so many people leave their homelands for the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s? They were “pushed” away by difficult conditions at home and “pulled” to the United States by new opportunities. Many people emigrated, or left their homelands, because of economic troubles. In Italy ...
Study Guide - Cengage Learning
... In Chapter 19, we examine urban growth, the third major theme (along with natural resource development and industrialization) associated with American expansion in the late nineteenth century. Urban industrial development combined with mass transportation and urban growth to destroy the old pedestri ...
... In Chapter 19, we examine urban growth, the third major theme (along with natural resource development and industrialization) associated with American expansion in the late nineteenth century. Urban industrial development combined with mass transportation and urban growth to destroy the old pedestri ...
Planning Climate Resilient Coastal Cities: leaRnings fRom
... We are grateful to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for granting this study to TERI as part of their Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) project’s climate adaptation small grants program. We are particularly thankful to Mr Christopher Evans, Deputy Program Manager, CRIS Pr ...
... We are grateful to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for granting this study to TERI as part of their Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) project’s climate adaptation small grants program. We are particularly thankful to Mr Christopher Evans, Deputy Program Manager, CRIS Pr ...
Construction of Digital Elevation Models
... building height (H), planar area index (lp), frontal area index (lf), and other measurable parameters related to the urban morphology (e.g., Cionco and Ellefsen 1998; Grimmond and Oke 1999). Urban morphometric analyses have been conducted more widely in the United States (Burian et al. 2007) than in ...
... building height (H), planar area index (lp), frontal area index (lf), and other measurable parameters related to the urban morphology (e.g., Cionco and Ellefsen 1998; Grimmond and Oke 1999). Urban morphometric analyses have been conducted more widely in the United States (Burian et al. 2007) than in ...
Vulnerability and Resilience from a Socio
... Cutter/Finch 2008, Morrow 2008, Kusenbach et al. 2010). As Morrow (2008, 4) puts it: “Social vulnerability is a catchall phrase that has become part of the discussion related to how social and cultural conditions place some at higher risk to environmental impacts such as climate change or natural ha ...
... Cutter/Finch 2008, Morrow 2008, Kusenbach et al. 2010). As Morrow (2008, 4) puts it: “Social vulnerability is a catchall phrase that has become part of the discussion related to how social and cultural conditions place some at higher risk to environmental impacts such as climate change or natural ha ...
Development and evaluation of a building energy model integrated
... Abstract. The use of air-conditioning systems is expected to increase as a consequence of global-scale and urban-scale climate warming. In order to represent future scenarios of urban climate and building energy consumption, the Town Energy Balance (TEB) scheme must be improved. This paper presents ...
... Abstract. The use of air-conditioning systems is expected to increase as a consequence of global-scale and urban-scale climate warming. In order to represent future scenarios of urban climate and building energy consumption, the Town Energy Balance (TEB) scheme must be improved. This paper presents ...
Mapping urban and social space: towards a socio
... superimposition of several structures acting at different scales: 1. the bigger scale of roads 2. the intermediate scale of plot subdivisions with its connections of land ownership and public and private initiative 3. and buildings that contain several functions (Panerai 2004; p. 158, Panerai 1999b; ...
... superimposition of several structures acting at different scales: 1. the bigger scale of roads 2. the intermediate scale of plot subdivisions with its connections of land ownership and public and private initiative 3. and buildings that contain several functions (Panerai 2004; p. 158, Panerai 1999b; ...
An Architectonic Recovery Plan over the North-East
... islands in high density urban areas, meanwhile in some areas there is a preserved urban texture. Evolutionary process of the area and the history that it carries is important not only as capital of Albania but also as evidence of the past. The long historical journey through maps was a very fruitful ...
... islands in high density urban areas, meanwhile in some areas there is a preserved urban texture. Evolutionary process of the area and the history that it carries is important not only as capital of Albania but also as evidence of the past. The long historical journey through maps was a very fruitful ...
Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience
... term refers to the maintenance of natural capital in the long-term in order to provide ecosystem services that provide instrumental as well as eudaemonistic values for human society. These ten definitions together represent the intension of the term resilience. Even though they are all related to th ...
... term refers to the maintenance of natural capital in the long-term in order to provide ecosystem services that provide instrumental as well as eudaemonistic values for human society. These ten definitions together represent the intension of the term resilience. Even though they are all related to th ...
Sustainable tall building and Vertical compact city
... expansion of another city like heat islands. So, from the 20th century, Eco cities have emerged in neighboring large cities in order to protect the environment and cities have been designed to use eco-friendly energies so that cities don’t release pollutants and less carbon dioxide, the culprit of t ...
... expansion of another city like heat islands. So, from the 20th century, Eco cities have emerged in neighboring large cities in order to protect the environment and cities have been designed to use eco-friendly energies so that cities don’t release pollutants and less carbon dioxide, the culprit of t ...
Mixed Use Development Guidelines
... development of land in almost any urban area was ‘mixed,’ with homes, shops, and workplaces blended either within the same building or juxtaposed to each other. The denseness of the development and the mixture of uses resulted in an environment where walking was the primary mode of transportation fo ...
... development of land in almost any urban area was ‘mixed,’ with homes, shops, and workplaces blended either within the same building or juxtaposed to each other. The denseness of the development and the mixture of uses resulted in an environment where walking was the primary mode of transportation fo ...
The New Immigrants
... left because of rising population. Between 1800 and 1900, the population in Europe doubled to nearly 400 million, resulting in a scarcity of land for farming. Farmers competed with laborers for too few industrial jobs. In the United States, jobs were supposedly plentiful. In addition, a spirit of re ...
... left because of rising population. Between 1800 and 1900, the population in Europe doubled to nearly 400 million, resulting in a scarcity of land for farming. Farmers competed with laborers for too few industrial jobs. In the United States, jobs were supposedly plentiful. In addition, a spirit of re ...
Making Space for Water
... Managing rivers and coastlines for multiple objectives will require a revision of the current legal duties and powers under which operating authorities work. Experience has shown that managing watercourses and coasts to deliver environmental outcomes is often difficult, because the current legal fra ...
... Managing rivers and coastlines for multiple objectives will require a revision of the current legal duties and powers under which operating authorities work. Experience has shown that managing watercourses and coasts to deliver environmental outcomes is often difficult, because the current legal fra ...
URBAN RENAISSANCE - FYM
... intervention strategies to rehabilitate urban areas affected by natural disasters, particularly seismic events and hydro-geological phenomena. In this way, cities can take steps to upgrade their existing building and infrastructure stock and make them safe, in order to effectively prevent seismic ri ...
... intervention strategies to rehabilitate urban areas affected by natural disasters, particularly seismic events and hydro-geological phenomena. In this way, cities can take steps to upgrade their existing building and infrastructure stock and make them safe, in order to effectively prevent seismic ri ...