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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Beijing, China"”.
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Locally Responsive Public Open Space Design: Special Reference to Beijing, China
… local urban forms in the past few decades in China. This is especially evident in public open spaces in many Chinese cities due to rapid economic development. Recent urban projects in Beijing specifically have shown limited responsiveness to local context and needs of users. This is due to a …
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Travel behaviour of Chinese tourists living in the city of Beijing, China
… the travel behaviour of tourists, outbound from Beijing, and their views on South Africa as a tourism destination. To accomplish this, the empirical research is designed from the quantitative perspective, and the data was collected by fieldworkers at the Beijing International Airport, using …
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Naming the discipline: A comparison of three landscape architecture programs in Beijing, China
Educators in China use different titles to name the discipline of landscape architecture. They have tried to find a word equivalent to the English term “landscape architecture,” without consensus, since the early 20th century. Especially since the 1980s, this lack of agreement has led to vigorous …
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INFLUENCE OF PARENTS' CHILD-FEEDING PRACTICES ON CHILD'S WEIGHT STATUS AMONG CHINESE ADOLESCENTS IN BEIJING, CHINA
… and become a public health concern in China. Parents have strong influence on children's eating and weight status. However, there is a lack of data about the influence of Chinese parents' child-feeding practices on children's weight status. This study aimed to assess parents' …
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Forbidden City: An Immersive Virtual Reality World Using the HTC VIVE to explore the real imperial palace of China
… world's top five palaces -The Imperial Palace in Beijing, China. This travel guide is designed to give you useful information that will greatly enhance your experience, and it will bring you into an immersive virtual world by using the device of the HTC VIVE rather than static texts and images. …
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Symphonic Poem No. 1, Poems on Stone Drums, for Full Orchestra
… stones now preserved in the Palace Museum in Beijing, China. These drum-shaped stones with seal scripts were originally made before the Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC), and were first discovered in 627CE. The poems on the seal scripts describe an ancient Qin king’s parade. However, for thousands …
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Duality / Fluidity -- Yin-Yang and bath house
… bathhouse in a bustling cultural district in Beijing, China. While the larger design framework evolves from the basics of bathing - the themes of earth, water and light, other design considerations that reflect the roots of Chinese traditions , namely, the configuration which is the metaphor …
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Dematerializing the City
… located in Gulou area in the old city center of Beijing, China. This urban intervention establishes a series of harmonious relationships between the city and the architecture, between the urban and the autonomous and between the old and the new . The pattern of the city's fabric, the local …
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Population policy and urban housing in China
… policy in the traditional urban context in Beijing, China. The population policy has changed the size and structure of traditional family, and further affected children's growing up environment. Children, used to grow up in a joint family of three generations in a traditional courtyard …
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The times and life of Rose Smith in Britain and China, 1891-1985 : an interplay between community, class and gender
… 1891 in Putney, England to her death in 1985 in Beijing, China. Over the span of her lifetime, she was among other things, a communist local strike leader of women, a functionary in the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and a propagandist journalist working for …
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Critical enhancements of a dynamic traffic assignment model for highly congested, complex urban network
… a case study network extracted from the city of Beijing, China. Data used in the calibration include sensor counts and floating car travel time. The improvements of the model performance are indicated by promising results from validation tests.
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Smartphone-based mobility mapping and Perceived Air Quality evaluation in Beijing
… performed using a smartphone app, Moves, in Beijing, China, this thesis discusses the survey design and implementation process as well as the mobility analysis methods. The survey was launched in January 2016. This thesis is based on data from 258 subjects. The air quality is monitored …
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Thresholds : landscape, city, and building edges
… context, using the cities of Bath (England), Beijing (China), and Santa Monica (California) as the basis of discussion. Both verbal and graphic documentation describe our perceptions of the character of edges in those cities, as observed in the patterns of individual pieces and their …
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Effectiveness of the 2010 Beijing Convention and Protocol in Addressing Aviation Security Threats
… its 37th Diplomatic Conference of 2010 held in Beijing, China, adopted two new international legal instruments namely; Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation (Beijing Convention of 2010) and Protocol Supplementary to the Convention for Suppression …
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“Effectiveness of the 2010 Beijing Convention and Protocol in Addressing Aviation Security Threats
… its 37th Diplomatic Conference of 2010 held in Beijing, China, adopted two new international legal instruments namely; Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation (Beijing Convention of 2010) and Protocol Supplementary to the Convention for Suppression …
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Baiyun guan: the Development and Evolution of a Quanzhen Daoist Temple
… evolution of the Daoist temple Baiyun guan in Beijing, China. Based on textual sources combined with the analysis of architectural and sculptural features, this study provides the comprehensive history of the temple focusing on its growth, change, and its religious identity. A detailed study of …
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Human Behaviour and the Environment: Experiments in Behavioural Environmental Economics
… discontinuities in air pollution episodes in Beijing, China to experimentally isolate the causal effect of acute air pollution on social decision-making and economic preferences. Chapter 2 utilises data from a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of extreme weather events on …
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