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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Urban Morphology"”.
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Businesses as Cultural Icons: Their Application towards Understanding Urban Morphology
… they are difficult to observe. Specifically urban cultural icons are a scientific sub-topic under urban morphology's heading and as well are closely related to economic development issues. This study premises that businesses are urban cultural icons which can be computed into four rankings: …
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Analysis of urban morphology for real time visualization of urban scenes
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Urban Morphology and the Chinese Urban Landscape: A Cross-Cultural Application of Theory
… so, there has been a burgeoning of research on urban morphology. A review of publications suggests that this growth is largely associated with the wider recognition of, in advancing the understanding and planning of the built environment, the importance of integrating knowledge on physical urban …
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Urban Morphology of American Cities: A Comparative Study of Old and New Growth Cities
No abstract prepared.
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Urban morphology and residential typology : a case study approach of expanding cities in Venezuela
Thesis (M.Arch.A.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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The influence of urban morphology on sensible heat flux and convective rainfall distributions over Greater Manchester
… activities, and alterations of the nature and morphology of the landsurface, perturb the land surface- atmosphere balances of energy, mass andmomentum. These changes lead to modifications of the atmospheric boundary layerwhich affect weather processes. Specifically, urban areas have been …
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MATHEMATICS OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY: A Cross-Scale Topological Approach to Analyzing Morphological Transitions in Urban Spatial Structure
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Historic Institutionalism and urban morphology in Jakarta: Drawing the link between flood policy and impacts on urban form & social sustainability
… and spatial impacts of those decisions on the urban form of the city. Jakarta has a long history of flooding, beginning with the Dutch colonial occupation of the city in 17th century, and examines the development of the urban form and the impacts of decisions around flooding over the past 400 …
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Synthesizing 3D morphology from a collection of urban design concepts
In the decision-making process of urban development projects, decision-makers and urban designers work collectively as a) decision-makers make decisions of urban development based on the evaluation of urban morphology, b) urban designers visualize design decisions given by decision-makers with 3D …
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Sustainable energy performances of urban morphologies
… the concept of sustainable energy within a urban design context. In essence, the research aims to answer the question: “what role does the city’s built environment morphology play, if any, in the sustainability of its energy system?”. To answer this question, I first derive an operational …
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O processo de ocupação e as questões sociais no bairro do Mario Andreazza em Bayeux – PB.
… the understanding of the current dynamics of the urban space of the city of Bayeux , in this sense arose the interest of analyzing the process of occupation and social issues related to the Mario Andreazza neighborhood. Mario Andreazza and a neighborhood of the city of Bayeux , state of Paraíba , …
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Ruins and Wrinkles: Revaluing Age through Architecture
… a close study of the site's history and its urban morphology, I propose a design based on the concept of urban regeneration in the form of reclamation, adaptation, and mentorship established through a system of green infrastructure that weaves existing neighborhoods into new diverse, …
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The changing face of the Constantia Valley a temporal study of land use change in a heritage landscape
The study of land use change and urban morphology requires a multi-layered approach. Case studies are needed to gain an understanding of the local factors that are driving land use change and forming urban landscapes. This study will provide a temporal perspective on land use change in the …
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The values of urban design - spatial models
Urban network morphometrics (UNeMos) is a research technique and a design decision aid in urban design. UNeMOS are network science-based configurational metrics of urban morphology that can inform urban designing decision-making, helping designers to discriminate between different 2D and 3D design …
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Urban disaster resilience: learning from the 2011 Bangkok flood
Reducing disaster risk, managing rapid urbanisation and tackling poverty is an enormous challenge, particularly in vulnerable neighbourhoods in low and middle-income countries. By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in towns and cities, with 95 per cent of future urban expansion in …
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The alternative space : informal settlements and life chances in Belém, Brazil
… to tools of analysis from different branches of urban morphology and space syntax, to build a spatial dimension to life chances. Cross-tabulation between the socio-economic and the spatial variables was used to assess the potential of life chances delivered by the space of the five case study …
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A place for play ... in post-conflict reconstruction
… therefore has a significant relevance within urbanism and the study of the built environment of cities in general. The physical markers of dichotomization imposed on the urban landscape, whether in the form of walls, roads, fences or zones of vacant or patrolled land, become a significant …
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An Urban Design Method for Rehabilitating Historic cities in Iran: The Case of Shiraz Historic Fabric
… law on the structure of city development, urban activities and socio-economics. Therefore, the aim of this research is to develop an urban design method to establish new principles for rehabilitation of historic cities in Iran. The conceptual framework firstly reviews theories and practical …
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