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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Sidewalks"”.
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Obstructing the path? : designing sidewalks through object placement
Vibrant multi-use sidewalks are designed in two phases. First there is the design of the physical infrastructure which determines sidewalk widths, materials, and the adjacent building fagades and roadway. Then there is the design problem of organizing objects on the sidewalk: where should the trees …
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Tourist Harlem: Sidewalks, Cyberspace, and the In/Visibility of Race
This research articulates a relationship between the physical community of Harlem, New York and the digital community comprising TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel related social media website. The purpose of this research is to identify forces of racial commodification in the tourism industry …
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Green Grass and Dirty Old Sidewalks: Evolving Images of the Rural and Urban in Honky-Tonk Country Music
A common theme prevails in country music that explores the antagonist relationship between the country and the city. This rural vs. urban theme is very often used as a backdrop for not only espousing the genre’s idealizations of its imagined rural roots, but also serves as a backdrop for exploring …
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At the margins of ordered freedom : the problem of the sidewalk as public space in New York
… planning discourse concerning New York City's sidewalks. It focuses on the forces within the city that have shaped the sidewalk and attitudes towards it, and the translation of theory and ideals regarding this key public space into planning policy. The sidewalk is defined morphologically by its …
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Preferences for walking-to-school environments: Exploring landscape designs that are most welcomed by children and parents
… preferred images that included large trees along sidewalks, as well as settings that included sidewalks far from the street rather than close to the street. Children expressed a slightly greater preference for settings with trees along the street and for the attractiveness of the setting, as …
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An integrated systems methodology for pedestrian traffic flow analysis
… system involves three basic elements: sidewalks or walkways; midblock or intersection corner, holding, or queueing areas; and pedestrian crossings of roads, rail lines, or other physical features. The pedestrians on sidewalks or walkways have operating characteristics analogous to …
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Woven Networks: Reinventing Street Life in Downtown Minneapolis
… over sixty city blocks above the streets and sidewalks allowing its users to completely ignore any activity occurring below them. The system has become so prevalent it has now become the primary means of movement for pedestrians, leading to empty streets and sidewalks and a lack of welcoming …
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Optimizing the compliance of pedestrian facilities construction and alteration with accessibility requirements
… to provide and maintain accessibility on their sidewalks and pedestrian facilities. Failure of public agencies to comply with these requirements resulted in injuries and subjected several state and local governments to costly non-compliance penalties and legal settlements. To provide better …
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Factores que afectan a la resistencia, funcionalidad y durabilidad de las aceras
… Due to the great variety of solutions for sidewalks, the study has been focussed on structures formed by granular subbases of suitable soils, concrete bases and concrete floor tiles, laid on a mortar layer. This solution is the one used in 84% of the cases of sidewalks built in Spain. There …
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Efficiency of the built environment: Interdependencies in transportation, development form and public health
… the authorities themselves.</p><p>Presence of sidewalks and intersections were found to be associated with the number of destinations respondents reported walking. Municipalities that would like to increase walking for public health or energy use reduction should investigate improving the …
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EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ON OREGON SCHOOL CHILDREN ACTIVELY COMMUTING TO SCHOOL
… regression, what affect commitments to improve sidewalks, bike lanes, crosswalks, crossing refuges, traffic calming devices, speed monitoring devices, and constructing/repairing off-road walking or bicycling paths have on rates of students walking to school. Program information was also …
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EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ON OREGON SCHOOL CHILDREN ACTIVELY COMMUTING TO SCHOOL
… regression, what affect commitments to improve sidewalks, bike lanes, crosswalks, crossing refuges, traffic calming devices, speed monitoring devices, and constructing/repairing off-road walking or bicycling paths have on rates of students walking to school. Program information was also …
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Re-Connecting: a redevelopment of the Wynberg Precinct
… space to trade, pedestrians contest for clear sidewalks while Taxis contest for clear streets without any obstructions. Furthermore, the dissertation also aims at reconnecting the commuter's routes between the transport facilities. There is a discontinuity in the commuter's routes from one …
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Robot designed for socially acceptable navigation
… that can navigate through environments like sidewalks, buildings, and hallways. In these situations, the robots must interact and cooperate with pedestrians in a socially acceptable manner. The "rules of the road" no longer apply -- there are no lanes or street signs, and pedestrians don't …
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Motor Vehicle Collisions in London, Ontario: Estimating the influence of the built environment and children’s potential exposure
… were negatively associated with hotspots, while sidewalks were positively associated. Study #2 estimated children’s risk of being exposed to a motor vehicle collision while commuting to and from school, by combining collision risk data from study #1 with modelled student pedestrian volumes. …
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Semantic Segmentation and 3D Reconstruction of Concrete Cracks
… ensure the safety of premises such as buildings, sidewalks, dams and bridges. Cracks are among the most prominent damages in such structures. In this research, a computer vision and machine learning-based solution for identifying and modeling cracks in concrete structures from high-resolution …
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"Everybody get together": The sixties counterculture and public space, 1964--1967
… to regulate the uses of parks, streets and sidewalks. In doing so, the counterculture constituted a distinct community with a political agenda.</p><p>This thesis is demonstrated through an analysis of the development of an ethos toward public space in the Beat movement and Merry Prankster …
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A study of the Naval Construction Force project material supply chain
… also vary from projects as small as concrete sidewalks to projects as large as full utility system installations, or complete facility and base construction. As a result of the diverse locations and project types that the Naval Construction Force experiences, the logistics of providing project …
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Vending the city : mapping the policy, policing and positioning of street vending in New York City
… the city, while relocating street vendors from sidewalks in others. In the absence of meaningful, in-depth datasets on urban informality, studies investigating this variation have had to rely on case studies, anecdotal material and qualitative neighborhood comparisons. As a result, there have …
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Armstrong Cork
… and activities of the people who populate the sidewalks. Urban variety is not the consequence of population density alone: people must be in contact with one another, if only visually, for the place to succeed. The inside must communicate with the outside. For a city to work, its people must …
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