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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Plazas"”.
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City Hall plazas : they're different
… the form, goals, and ideals behind city hall plazas by asking the questions: What is the difference between a city hall plaza and any other urban plaza? What are the uses intended by the city in the building of the plaza? and, How are these intentions manifested in the design of the space? The …
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Predicting pedestrian use on outdoor urban plazas utilizing climate/behavior models
Over the past two decades, an increasing amount of research has been directed toward climatic influences on behavior and the built environment. The evidence from this research has lead to the development of recommended site interventions to improve energy performance in individual buildings and to …
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Examining the Ecological and Social Implications of Parklets and Plazas Across Multiple Urban Scales
… low-efficiency intersection space into public plazas with a limited range of permanently installed elements and San Francisco has pioneered the concept of the parklet, which converts two to four street parking spaces into a modular and flexible pedestrian space. I seek to answer two questions …
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A new life for plazas : reimagining privately owned public spaces in New York City
… spaces, typically in the form of small outdoor plazas, are spatially clustered in the densest areas of Manhattan and serve as a valuable public amenity for the residents and employees in these areas. Many of the 500+ spaces built before the last major overhaul of the design regulations in 2007 …
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Urban Landscape Design for Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity of Young Seniors: A Study of Shopping-Mall-Plazas in Central Beijing
… buildings, at the dead ends of streets, and plazas, in front of shopping malls are not designed as activity spaces; they are edges and residual spaces left over after planning. Although shopping mall plazas are ‘designed’ interstitial spaces with regard to their physical characteristics (for …
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Factors that Influence the Social Life and Vitality of Public Open Spaces in Maracaibo - Venezuela. Case Study: Plaza de la Madre and Plaza de la República
… in Maracaibo, Venezuela, are two important urban plazas studied from a social perspective, based on the belief that people and their needs should be addressed in public plaza design and renovations. The research problem is based on the fact that many plazas in Maracaibo provide uncomfortable …
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Economic evaluation of toll plaza operations
… method to estimate delay and stops in toll plazas. These variables are then utilized to evaluate user costs and toxic gases emitted in toll plazas. A large amount of information on highway user costs was collected and synthesized to be incorporated in this economic evaluation. …
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Procedimento metodológico para avaliação de desempenho de praças de pedágio com uso de simulação
Toll plazas are often characterized as a potential stretch of bottleneck, due to the tariff collection process at specific points of the road. In the highway concession contract, the public manager requires compliance with efficiency measures of the concessionaire. However, not all highway …
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Decarbonization strategies for North American urban landscapes: Evaluating pavements and vegetation across design typologies
… to benchmark four urban typologies—streetscapes, plazas, courtyards, and urban parks. Their 50-year carbon footprints range from –80 to 21 kgCO₂e/m² in urban parks, –13 to 63 in courtyards, 22 to 79 in plazas, and 3 to 80 in streetscapes. Applying decarbonization strategies makes all typologies …
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The planning and urban design of liveable public open spaces in Oman : case study of Muscat
… this study examines the design of squares and plazas in particular. Squares and plazas were introduced by colonisation and reinforced by modernity, being later emphasised by globalisation. Nevertheless, squares and plazas in the Middle East have not been as successful as the traditional local …
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A state capitol building for Alaska
… to best advantage. Attractively landscaped, the plazas at the base of the government buildings fulfill an important aesthetic function by providing a setting for the buildings. On the capitol site, several related plazas are developed with contrasting architectural masses. The contrast between …
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Research in Public Spaces: Safety and Human Behavior
… various techniques of behavioral research of two plazas in a campus setting. The first part of the research focuses on literature to understand origin of public space, importance of safety, and evolution of safety standards in the context of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). …
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Hilltop Archaeology: Ceremony and Ritual at the Site of Cerro Santa Rita, Chao Valley, Peru
… Cerro Santa Rita was a burial complex that had plazas and courtyards associated with the tombs of ancestors. Not as elaborate or large as the <em>huacas</em> to the north in the Moche and Chicama Valleys, which served as regional, administrative and religious centers, Cerro Santa Rita was more …
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Camden Plaza: a mixed-use megastructure
… imagery. This system is manipulated to produce plazas and public spaces at many levels throughout the complex. The complex 's relationship to the 1855 Camden Station is also a major issue.
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Traffic Safety Assessment of Different Toll Collection Systems on Expressways Using Multiple Analytical Techniques
… and operational challenges. The traditional toll plazas still experience many crashes, many of which are severe. Therefore, it becomes more important to evaluate the traffic safety impacts of using different tolling systems. The main focus of the research in this dissertation is to provide an …
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Values That Shape the Social Morphology of the Town Center in Binan, Laguna, Philippines
… town center to town residents. Other studies on plazas and town centers have only concentrated on site observations, personal interviews, surveys, and urban morphological studies respectively. While these methods show significant results, the focus becomes isolated either only on the users or the …
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Gathering: a study of public space through an inhabitable bridge in Southwest Washington, D.C.
… the existing city grid, while developing small plazas along the water's edge. A major plaza is located at the intersection of the bridge and the city. It is the masterplan and orientation of the bridge that make it a viable development of the NCPC's masterplan. The project proposes an …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de un albergue ecológico en Huamanga, Ayacucho
… para la capacidad de atención hallada: 24 090 plazas-cama anuales (66 plazas-cama diarias). Finalmente, se determinó que la inversión total asciende a S/ 2 000 499,78, donde el 40% será financiado por capital propio con un COK de 19,12% y 60% por terceros con una TEA de 16%. Como resultado de …
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Transactional terrains : partnerships, bargains and the Postwar redefinition of the public realm, New York City 1965-1980
… management and provision of public goods (parks, plazas and housing). Privately-owned public plazas, privately-managed public parks, privately-owned and managed low-income housing and Special Zoning Districts are some of the outcomes of these partnerships that have shaped and influenced New York …
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