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Showing 1 to 20 of 186 for “"Urban Spaces"”.
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Sound propagation in urban spaces
Thesis. 1976. Sc.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
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Solar radiation in external urban spaces
… distribution and intensity of solar radiation in urban spaces. New, tall buildings often reduce the quality of their immediate environment by intercepting sunlight before it reaches street level. While planners and the local authority recognise the necessity to rehumanise the city centre and to …
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Water and fountains in urban spaces
Thesis: M.S.V.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1986
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LightMARL : smart swarm coordination in urban spaces
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) systems generally require substantial computational resources and high-bandwidth communication, which restricts their deployment to centralized cloud infrastructures. This thesis introduces LightMARL, an optimization framework that facilitates effective …
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Urban spaces : comparative uses, size, and character
Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Small urban spaces : programming for good tot lots
This thesis is about small urban spaces, specifically tot lots in dense neighborhoods. It includes a literature review on small urban spaces and playgrounds, and site-specific research based on both a survey of users and direct observation of three tot lots in Cambridge, MA. Initially, this thesis …
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Tales of the Gayborhood: Mediating Philadelphia's Gay Urban Spaces
… by different discourses, namely tourism and urban development. Marking Philadelphia's Gayborhood justifies the presence of LGBT individuals in the city by linking LGBT lives to economic activity and "positive" urban change. This dissertation reads media texts about Philadelphia's Gayborhood …
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Exploding spaces : present and future urban spaces cinematically considered
This study seeks to understand the visual dynamics of contemporary science fiction cities in film by exploring a number of diverse architectural and cinematic influences. The argument is initiated through a consideration of utopianism and science fiction, before moving onto specific architectural …
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To and fro : digital data-driven analyses of pedestrian mobility in urban spaces
… health officials, transportation engineers, and urban planners. To what degree, if any, do these various environmental characteristics influence how much and for how long people walk? To answer these questions, this thesis analyzes large-scale spatiotemporal pedestrian activity records collected …
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Kei hea te tangi a te Tūī? An exploration of Kaitiakitanga in urban spaces
… most indigenous people, Māori have experienced urbanisation that has spanned across generations of whānau and hapū. Urbanisation has the ability to challenge health outcomes, cultural practices and cultural knowledge, and more importantly, relationships to nature. Growing urbanisation and …
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Ageing in urban spaces : developing inclusive urban environments for older people in Global South cities
… vulnerabilities. Responses to the challenges of urbanism have resulted in increasing numbers of older people living in spaces of socio-spatial inequality. Despite the growing stream of literature in the development of inclusive and resilient urban areas in the Global South, there has been …
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Geographilia in Children's Urban Spaces: Investigating How Children Explore Outdoor Places and Connect with Natural Objects.
… Autumn 2010 Geography Geographilia in Children’s Urban Spaces: Investigating How Children Explore Outdoor Places and Connect With Natural Objects Chairperson: Jeffrey A. Gritzner The benefits children receive from outdoor play time are well documented by scholars across many disciplines. …
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Geographilia in Children's Urban Spaces: Investigating How Children Explore Outdoor Places and Connect with Natural Objects.
… Autumn 2010 Geography Geographilia in Children’s Urban Spaces: Investigating How Children Explore Outdoor Places and Connect With Natural Objects Chairperson: Jeffrey A. Gritzner The benefits children receive from outdoor play time are well documented by scholars across many disciplines. …
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Assembling the Chinese City: Production of Place and the Articulation of New Urban Spaces in Wuhan, China
Studies of China's urban development largely rely on a handful of metanarratives, appealing for their concision, but failing to account for the spatial specificities of the Chinese city. These narratives are founded on structural capitalist explanations of place-making including neoliberal …
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Mobile Augmented Reality for Smart Tourism: Reviving Modern Architectural Heritage and Urban Spaces of Arab Gulf States
… have gone through an immense architectural and urban change in a manner that would allow them to compete among the top cities of the world and become a place of destination and financial prosperity. Among these Gulf cities, the capital city of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), once …
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Cognitive processes in the perception of the environment : a framework for study of legibility in small urban spaces
… the relationship between the legibility in the urban environment and various components of the visual environment, as perceived. and remembered by the people. The focus of the study are small urban spaces in Boston. The study developed a series of experimental protocols to study the response of …
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Urban soundscapes: the effect of auditory stimulation on mood
… and how do they interact to affect mood in urban cityscapes? To what extent do some typical landscape sounds increase negative feelings? To what extent do other typical sounds create calming and positive feelings in the landscape? This research examines the extent to which different sounds …
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'TRACK’ING THE BORDER: MICRO-GEOGRAPHIES OF INFRASTRUCTURAL BORDERS IN GUWAHATI INDIA
This thesis investigates micro-urban spaces within cities where geopolitical processes at different scales intersect, producing layers of bordering, that become legible through people-infrastructure interactions. I specifically explore the reproduction India’s partition and the immigration debate …
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Creating water sensitive places in Hangberg
… has however been put under strain as urban development has affected the natural and urban water cycle resulting in flooding, soil erosion, pollution and water shortages. Urban spaces and residents have become detached from water as infrastructure tends to be hidden underground and …
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