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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Contemporary city"”.
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Contemporary City Recreation Center
Through a ramp circulation system connect each floor of the building and horizontally link inside and outside the gym with an urban environment. People experiencing continuing from in/out, enclose/opening, artificial/nature, green/gray, void/solid from beginning to "begin".
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The" Special Study": On the disintegration and reintegration of the contemporary city
This Study is only an attempt at a brief' outline to a vast and complex problem. It does not endeavour to deal with the more specific problems of disintegrational forces in cities such as the population explosion, speculative and uncontrolled land exploitation and building, sprawling ribbon …
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Identities of difference in the contemporary city: a spatial and policy analysis of men who sell sex in metropolitan Sydney
… compete globally through differentiation, these contemporary cities share a commonality of being diverse: they are inhabited by multiple identities of difference. Managing “difference” presents built environment professionals with an array of cultural and subcultural identities that are not …
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Action, alienation and Bacchus
… to construct an ordered reality abounds in the contemporary city, the ability to access the Dionysian realm of truth is not provided for. The ancient urban form of the stoa--by giving shape to the space of the agora--allowed for an immersion into the sensuous world of Dionysos. The stoa defined …
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A cidade contemporânea e as novas tecnologias segundo Paul Virilio, Manuel Castells e François Ascher
… contribution to the understanding of the contemporary city and urbanism. The present work intends to identify the concepts and themes on which are based the different interpretations of these authors, aiming to contribute to a conception of the contemporary city.
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Breaching the walls: (un)restricted access - the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
… has defended it against rapid expansion of the city centre and changing political paradigms. Indirectly, this has also allowed it to foster "past" memory, perhaps too well, limiting its engagement with the transience, fluidity, conflict and contradiction that are traits of the contemporary city. …
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Eight houses in a row
… presents a place for the individual within the contemporary city: Eight houses in a row that restore the solid perimeter blocks of the city while preserving the individual’s interior freedom and inalienable solitude.
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A chance encounter : architecture in a hybrid society
… that recognises the unpredictable nature of the contemporary city. This reality is a great opportunity to create a rich architecture that allows for multiple and varied social encounters and events to occur.
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Humanizing the city : festivals as a human adaptation of public space
As currently conceived, the contemporary city will not advance beyond its present level of achievement. This research frames the city within three root values upon which all decisions made in the city are based. The three root values are continuity, connection and openness. Under the present …
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The American Catholic Church in the contemporary urban realm (Vatican II)
… of the Catholic Church as an institution in the city is one which has not been successfully exploited in this country. The transformation of the church after the Second Vatican Council relied on a direct relationship between functionalism in architecture and liturgical reform. This singular …
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Stimulating urban renewal; through forging connection between architecture + public infrastructure towards an integral urbanism
… interrelationships and perceptions in the contemporary city. Objectives The first objective is to transcend beyond traditional perceptions of infrastructure and develop an understanding of what infrastructure could be, through reconfiguring how it functions holistically in the urban …
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Cultivating Cubanidad : weaving a cultural nexus into Havana's urban fabric
City-frameworks create an underlying system of order through which individuals are able to interact within their communities. Considering the successful historical precedents of city developments like Philadelphia, Savannah, and Bolonga, these cities exemplify the three different styles of …
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Light and the urban form: Eisenhower Metro Center
… These new centers do not look like our old city downtowns where buildings stood side by side, but rather their low broad outlines dot the landscape like cattle along a forged trail. These office towers, frequently guarded by trees and moats of asphalt peer at each other from respectful …
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Realtime Vehicle Route Optimisation via DQN for Sustainable and Resilient Urban Transportation Network
… congestion has become one of the most serious contemporary city issues for urban transportation network as it leads to unnecessary high energy consumption, air pollution and extra travelling time. During this decade, many optimization algorithms have been designed to achieve the optimal usage …
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Dominion Geometries : Colonial construction and Postcolonial persistence of the Imperial in the New Delhi Plan
… planning, policy, culture and evolution in contemporary city form. the motivation for this research emerges from my own subscription to the fact that "[New Delhi today is] a kind of an overgrown capitol complex, resolutely detached from the rest of the city." In my view, it is the …
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Exceptional tunings: controlling urban events
… control: how their relationship unfolds in the contemporary city, and how normative orderings emerge out of the urban mess, with particular attention to how this occurs in the extraordinary spatio-temporal context of mega events. The work is premised on the elaboration of an original spatial …
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Valletta : the significance of its architectural evolution
Valletta is an incredible and complex city. Its story is vast, and the changes that have occurred since its inception are extensive. The war machine, the 'City of God', a city by the Order of St. John the well planned city fortress, the renaissance city, the baroque city, the mercantile city : …
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Transitory places : a water terminal and immigration station for East Boston
An experience of the water in the city is often absent today as the urban has increasingly infringed on natural environments creating a distinct separation between the two. This thesis is an architectural exploration of the transition from land and water and from water to land in the contemporary …
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The infrastructural space of appearance : the re-formed public library
… the notion of the Space of Appearance in the contemporary city as providing a common platform for exchange. This Space of Appearance is conceived of through the linking of two public and democratic infrastructures -- mass transport lines and the public library. By symbiotically linking the two …
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Constructions of Space in Fiction of Neil Gaiman
… to demonstrate how constructions of space in contemporary fiction can be analysed to reveal the underlying politics and cultural commentary of the work. Each of the titles selected juxtaposes an ostensibly ‘real-world’ setting with fantastical elements, such as magic, myths, or ‘other’ worlds. …
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