the urban transition in ghana
... re-classification as villages grow into towns once they attain the threshold population of 5000 or more persons which is the census definition of an urban centre in Ghana. ...
... re-classification as villages grow into towns once they attain the threshold population of 5000 or more persons which is the census definition of an urban centre in Ghana. ...
Sustainable residential building issues in urban heat islands
... The ‘urban heat island effect’ influences most of the major cities around the world. This heat island phenomenon contributes to discomfort and increased air conditioning loads. On hot summer days, this effect significantly contributes to the urban dweller’s discomfort, resulting in an increase in en ...
... The ‘urban heat island effect’ influences most of the major cities around the world. This heat island phenomenon contributes to discomfort and increased air conditioning loads. On hot summer days, this effect significantly contributes to the urban dweller’s discomfort, resulting in an increase in en ...
Construction of Digital Elevation Models for a
... A morphometric analysis of a southern European city and the derivation of relevant fluid dynamical parameters for use in urban flow and dispersion models are explained in this paper. Calculated parameters are compared with building statistics that have already been computed for parts of three northe ...
... A morphometric analysis of a southern European city and the derivation of relevant fluid dynamical parameters for use in urban flow and dispersion models are explained in this paper. Calculated parameters are compared with building statistics that have already been computed for parts of three northe ...
Edmonton Urban Design Awards
... As a key part of the City of Edmonton’s Recreation Facility Master Plan, the project challenges existing typologies and preconceptions of community facilities in the city. It emerges from both community building and urban/environmental perspectives. The existing facility had almost no civic presence ...
... As a key part of the City of Edmonton’s Recreation Facility Master Plan, the project challenges existing typologies and preconceptions of community facilities in the city. It emerges from both community building and urban/environmental perspectives. The existing facility had almost no civic presence ...
The Urban Sociology of Manuel Castells: A Critical
... physical quantity approach as formulated by ...
... physical quantity approach as formulated by ...
City and Regional Planning
... students. We provide an applied, comprehensive, professional planning education with, community, regional, and global awareness. We prepare planners to develop communities and regions that are socially, ecologically, and economically sustainable. ...
... students. We provide an applied, comprehensive, professional planning education with, community, regional, and global awareness. We prepare planners to develop communities and regions that are socially, ecologically, and economically sustainable. ...
suitland tc comprehensive design report
... 5 stories of multi-family residential over a 1-story ground floor urban supermarket. To allow for outdoor eating areas and pedestrian-friendly streets the buildings have been sited close to the curb. Buildings are oriented to the street with the retail entrances situated along Lewis Avenue, pulling ...
... 5 stories of multi-family residential over a 1-story ground floor urban supermarket. To allow for outdoor eating areas and pedestrian-friendly streets the buildings have been sited close to the curb. Buildings are oriented to the street with the retail entrances situated along Lewis Avenue, pulling ...
Katajanokka - an Art Nouveau District Questions concerning urban
... characterised the urban planning of the late 1800s. Streets were laid out in a gridiron pattern that failed to take the area’s rocky and undulating terrain into account. The urban structure was based on straight streets and large closed blocks; nowhere in the town plan was there space for any parks ...
... characterised the urban planning of the late 1800s. Streets were laid out in a gridiron pattern that failed to take the area’s rocky and undulating terrain into account. The urban structure was based on straight streets and large closed blocks; nowhere in the town plan was there space for any parks ...
The Late 20th-Century Commercial Office
... buildings, in which the elements of a building were increasingly parcelled up and contracted out to specialist contractors. Thus structural engineers designed the frame; the heating and ventilation systems were installed by service engineers; interior designers or space planners fitted out the inter ...
... buildings, in which the elements of a building were increasingly parcelled up and contracted out to specialist contractors. Thus structural engineers designed the frame; the heating and ventilation systems were installed by service engineers; interior designers or space planners fitted out the inter ...
4. Design Detail - Leeds City Council
... includes different uses which have created an active frontage at street level ...
... includes different uses which have created an active frontage at street level ...
blOEmhOf An example of a generic structure design
... Brussels, is a model of sustainable town planning. This is due first of all to the district’s attractive, timeless layout: the 239 residences and ten ateliers are spread over nine buildings and look out on three internal tree-planted squares, generous and inviting public spaces where ...
... Brussels, is a model of sustainable town planning. This is due first of all to the district’s attractive, timeless layout: the 239 residences and ten ateliers are spread over nine buildings and look out on three internal tree-planted squares, generous and inviting public spaces where ...
Chapter 20: Toward an Urban America, 1865-1914
... guages. Their children for an activity on spoke English at school immigration. and with friends, but they also spoke their native language at home. On the other hand, the grandchildren of many immigrants spoke only English. The role of immigrant women also changed in the United States, where women g ...
... guages. Their children for an activity on spoke English at school immigration. and with friends, but they also spoke their native language at home. On the other hand, the grandchildren of many immigrants spoke only English. The role of immigrant women also changed in the United States, where women g ...
To Build Strong and Substantial
... it, and it reflects not a little credit on Lancaster’s young architect, Mr. C. Emlen Urban.” Southern Market represented Urban’s first major commission for a large-scale building, when he was just 25 years old. The Farmer’s Southern Market House Company was formed in 1887 by businessmen interested ...
... it, and it reflects not a little credit on Lancaster’s young architect, Mr. C. Emlen Urban.” Southern Market represented Urban’s first major commission for a large-scale building, when he was just 25 years old. The Farmer’s Southern Market House Company was formed in 1887 by businessmen interested ...
The High-rise as a Retirement Community - ctbuh
... surrounding mid-rise neighborhoods. The traditional uses for high-rises are also evolving. …The Clare is the first high-rise retirement and skilled care community to address building code issues within the multi-use context." As cities are becoming denser, the functions of high-rises are expanding. ...
... surrounding mid-rise neighborhoods. The traditional uses for high-rises are also evolving. …The Clare is the first high-rise retirement and skilled care community to address building code issues within the multi-use context." As cities are becoming denser, the functions of high-rises are expanding. ...
BETWEEN THE SUN AND THE MOON – STUDIO MUMBAI Frankfurt
... international architectural output. Thoughtful and uncompromising to the last detail, this is architecture that cares deeply about the relationship between Man and Nature. The layout has been designed to highlight the items on display by echoing the look and feel of the Alibag studio, the “construct ...
... international architectural output. Thoughtful and uncompromising to the last detail, this is architecture that cares deeply about the relationship between Man and Nature. The layout has been designed to highlight the items on display by echoing the look and feel of the Alibag studio, the “construct ...
GENTRIFICATION IN CENTRAL MOSCOW – A MARKET PROCESS
... developments, the inner city has also experienced rehabilitation and redevelopment of its housing. The concentration of the Russian financial sector and major headquarters in Moscow has resulted in a considerable segment of the very well off living in the city. Already at the beginning of the 1990s ...
... developments, the inner city has also experienced rehabilitation and redevelopment of its housing. The concentration of the Russian financial sector and major headquarters in Moscow has resulted in a considerable segment of the very well off living in the city. Already at the beginning of the 1990s ...
full article
... space in the 1960s (Soja 2009, 249ff.), even in the twenty-first century German adherents of Luhmann in particular still cling to modernization theory’s assertion that social space is a negligible variable. One representative example would be Armin Nassehi, whose essay on the question begins by stat ...
... space in the 1960s (Soja 2009, 249ff.), even in the twenty-first century German adherents of Luhmann in particular still cling to modernization theory’s assertion that social space is a negligible variable. One representative example would be Armin Nassehi, whose essay on the question begins by stat ...
Mixed Use Development Guidelines
... accurately describes those parts of our built environment that are discernibly different from their suburban and rural counterparts. It connotes denser arrangements of buildings characterized by overlapping patterns of use and activities, and clearly defined, humanely-scaled external spaces, where ...
... accurately describes those parts of our built environment that are discernibly different from their suburban and rural counterparts. It connotes denser arrangements of buildings characterized by overlapping patterns of use and activities, and clearly defined, humanely-scaled external spaces, where ...
Housing and Urbanization in Africa : Unleashing a Formal Market
... hypothesis is that the peculiarity of housing as a household asset produced by the non-tradable sector exposes it to multiple points of vulnerability not found together either in private consumer goods, or in other capital goods. Each of these points of vulnerability can be addressed by appropriate ...
... hypothesis is that the peculiarity of housing as a household asset produced by the non-tradable sector exposes it to multiple points of vulnerability not found together either in private consumer goods, or in other capital goods. Each of these points of vulnerability can be addressed by appropriate ...
The New Immigrants
... States, and the promise of industrial jobs drew millions of people to American cities. The urban population exploded from 10 million to 54 million between 1870 and 1920. This growth revitalized the cities but also created serious problems that, as Riis observed, had a powerful impact on the new urba ...
... States, and the promise of industrial jobs drew millions of people to American cities. The urban population exploded from 10 million to 54 million between 1870 and 1920. This growth revitalized the cities but also created serious problems that, as Riis observed, had a powerful impact on the new urba ...
(RDP) Housing Policy in South
... to implement a more holistic program that incorporates environmental, social and health objectives. 5) Explore diversified solutions to housing provision that incorporate environmental quality, localized resource management and sustainability at the core of their design. 6) Let urban planning and se ...
... to implement a more holistic program that incorporates environmental, social and health objectives. 5) Explore diversified solutions to housing provision that incorporate environmental quality, localized resource management and sustainability at the core of their design. 6) Let urban planning and se ...
Milan`s gradual transformation owes more to replacement of the
... down over the facades and follow the irregular skyline of the block, emphasizing the alternation of triplex and duplex apartments and reinforcing the individuality of each apartment. Further south, as we approach the periphery of North Milan and Cinisello Balsamo, we find the first shopping mall ev ...
... down over the facades and follow the irregular skyline of the block, emphasizing the alternation of triplex and duplex apartments and reinforcing the individuality of each apartment. Further south, as we approach the periphery of North Milan and Cinisello Balsamo, we find the first shopping mall ev ...
complex urbarchitectonic structures of priština and novi pazar cities
... and aesthetic principles presented in the mentioned projects were elaborated in his complex urbarchitectonic structure of dwelling unity - Unité d'Habitation. With an extensive program, many functions were concentrated within one unique building containing different functional belts deployed in heig ...
... and aesthetic principles presented in the mentioned projects were elaborated in his complex urbarchitectonic structure of dwelling unity - Unité d'Habitation. With an extensive program, many functions were concentrated within one unique building containing different functional belts deployed in heig ...
Housing and Urbanization in Africa: Unleashing a Formal Market
... government: ministries of housing have neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never received such high political priority. This in turn is because the centrality of housing in well-being and of housing investment in developmen ...
... government: ministries of housing have neither the political weight nor the analytic capacity to play this role effectively. Yet in Africa, housing has never received such high political priority. This in turn is because the centrality of housing in well-being and of housing investment in developmen ...