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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Future Cities"”.
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Regenerative Design for Future Cities
… urban scales, is key to create values within our cities. This process celebrates the idea to regenerate, rather than exhaust our energy and resources, which helps re-aligns our social life with the natural environment as an integrated system. At the same time, the regenerative design celebrates …
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Liberated pixels : alternative narratives for lighting future cities
… technical, aesthetic, and social directions for future infrastructures of "imageability" (Lynch 1964) in the city.
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I/O: input/output : design strategies : an inquiry into thinking / making
… much that has been promised in technology-laden future cities and much that is emerging, but these do not necessarily lie along the same path. Without placing architecture within the discourse and development of these responsive technologies, the discipline will lose the opportunity to …
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Visual conversations on urban futures : understanding participatory processes and artefacts
Visualisations of future cities contribute to our social imaginary. They can, and have been used as speculative objects for imagining new possible ways of living as communities (Dunn et al., 2014). However, future cities are usually represented through coherent scenarios that only tell one story …
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From Heaven on Earth to Smart Cities: How Utopianism Shifted from Social Structures to Digital Built Environments in the 21st Century
Future cities are largely mentioned with utopia in the 21st century. Yet, many also think that utopias are pre-21st-century texts or designs. In the early 21st century, the concept of a digital city began to be connected to utopian ideas. Smart city, sustainable city,15-minute city, and many more …
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Socio-Environmental Sensor Networks for Community Sensing
… urban changes. Research has shown that cities can bring economic wealth and improved quality of life by fostering diverse economies, dense knowledge exchanges, and efficient district performance. However, it is also true that scientists have associated cities with crowding, segregation, …
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Architecture and Drones: Accomodating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
… the built environment and its Architecture. The cities that we live in today were only made possible by the technologies of the first, second, and third industrial revolutions. Today, we are witnessing another technological revolution based on open source data and artificial intelligence. As …
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Standardising the city: A material-discursive genealogy of CPA-I_001, ISO 37120 and BSI PAS 181
… for the governance of smart and sustainable cities. In this thesis, I survey the standards literature, develop a methodology for their study, and analyse three city standards, the institutions that support them and the material-discursive apparatuses that allow them to take shape. CPA-I_001 …
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The Densification of Historic Districts: Applying Metabolism to the Cast Iron
… Metabolists of the 1960’s began to explore what future cities would look like. They conceptualized premanufactured blocks inserted within a framework where an entire building or parts of buildings could be added or removed with demand. The Metabolists tapped into an idea that could be applied not …
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A circular model of urban hydrology
… that would make them relevant to present and future cities and is applied on a conceptual level to study the implications that this new model could have on the urban landscape. By exploring the concepts of waste water reclamation and re-use, and storm water management that is connected to the …
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Pro-forma for city form
… market, institutional framework, on the existing cities and their struggles, there is littl that tis spoken about the motivations of development agencies, their manifestos and aspirations, for the new cities that are being planned. My research explores green field projects in an attempt to …
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A framework for smart traffic management using heterogeneous data sources
… economic and environmental issue to modern cities as it can negatively impact travel times, fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Traffic forecasting and incident detection systems are fundamental areas of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that have been widely researched in the last …
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Printing the vernacular : 3D printing technology and its impact on the City of Sana'a, Yemen
… manufacturing and construction method in the future. The industrial revolution that has begun in the 19th century was the transition to a new manufacturing process. This transition included going from hand production to machine production and eventually changed the entire way of making things, …
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URBAN REGENERATIVE DESIGN A PROTOTYPE DESIGN DECISION SUPPORT FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE
… through a comprehensive method for designing cities and their future. However, little has been done to focus on the needs of practicing designers. Regenerative design (RD) provides a strategic thinking for urban designers and a holistic view toward the self-sufficient cities, which shows a …