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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Street pattern"”.
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Effect of urban street pattern on drainage.
… cities, storm runoff is usually collected in the streets and conveyed to underground storm drains through inlets located at street level. Construction and maintenance of storm drain systems is always expensive. In semiarid regions with a very low frequency of storm occurrence, most cities use …
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Northern Boulevard office district : urban design analysis and projections
… takes as its premise the proposition that the pattern of street rights-of-way (and, by implication, utility alignments), blocks and parcelization are together the strongest and most persistent determinants of urban form. Certain design objectives are postulated--among them, clearly defined …
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EXPLORING TRANSFORMATION OF STREET LAYOUT IN THE OLD CITY OF BEIJING: CASE STUDIES OF QIANMEN AND XISI
Numerous historical buildings, streets and sites keep disappearing nowadays because the impact from rapid urban modernization development. Usually, the government and planner have ideas about how to build new urban landscape while own limited ways to preserve historic site. The old city of Beijing …
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Building, block, street : residential block design
… than by limitations imposed by traditional street pattern and block size, is fundamentally anti-urban. Modern American housing of the post-World War II era, like any complex social phenomenon, was influenced by multiple forces. Among the most salient are single proprietary control of large …
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City Limits: A Psychoanalysis of Urbanism and Everyday Life
… Toronto). Foucault’s arguments about gridded street systems and early forms of policing are introduced to explain the intentions and desires associated with the gridded street pattern of Toronto. Foucault’s theory of governmentality is argued to be the marking of a limit rather than a strict …
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Building the urban river edge : proposed connections to the water at the foot of Boston's Beacon Hill
… is well suited for testing these hypotheses. The street pattern of the neighborhood is oriented toward the river yet it has been cut off from the water by Storrow Drive. Charles St. at the base of the hill has long provided a strong core of public use. In addition this is an area in which some …
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Street network connectivity and local travel behaviour: assessing the relationship of travel outcomes to disparate pedestrian and vehicular street network connectivity
This research investigated the association of street network connectivity differences across travel modes with travel behaviour – mode choice, distance traveled and number of trips. To date research on travel behaviour relationships with urban form has not developed empirical evidence on street …
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The art of cross-writing in Grove Hall : two centuries of form and place-making in a Boston neighborhood
… many similar districts in other U.S. cities. Its streets and houses were not destroyed for urban renewal, or ripped apart to create freeways; the original street pattern, and most of its classic buildings, survived years of decay. Thus, instead of replacing urban form, there is evidence that Grove …