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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"building height"”.
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Identity in city form : the politics of building height
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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Economic model for height determination of high-rise buildings
At present, no clear concise method of optimal height determination for high-rise buildings is being practiced. The primary scope of this dissertation is to see if a practical model, decision making process and list of external factors for examination can be generated for use by developers that …
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Automated Building Information Extraction and Evaluation from High-resolution Remotely Sensed Data
… and three-dimensional (3D) structures of buildings are of great importance to city planning, natural disaster management, and virtual environmental simulation. As traditional manual methodologies for collecting 2D and 3D building information are often both time consuming and costly, …
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HOW URBAN DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTES TO THERMAL ENVIRONMENT VARIATION ---- A CASE STUDY IN NEW YORK CITY
… road density, impervious surface area percent, building shape coefficient, standard deviation of building height and street canyon aspect ratio. On both community district and census tract level, four of the five variables (road density, impervious surface area percent, standard deviation of …
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Influence of Turbulence on the Aerodynamics of Low-Rise Buildings
… determine the roof pressures acting on low-rise buildings with consideration of the effects of turbulence (terrain). Pressure measurements, as well as wind speed data, were taken at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory (BLWTL) of the University of Western Ontario (UWO) to examine the …
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Decarbonizing High-Rise Buildings in Cold Climates: Net-Zero Energy Strategies and the Role of Solar Energy
Despite growing emphasis on Net-Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs), several gaps hinder their effective implementation. Ambiguity in NZEB definitions creates inconsistencies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and limits practical applications. This thesis evaluates the influence of NZEB definition on …
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Theoretical Architecture in Structures of Dense Urban Reform
… the application of fractal geometry useful. Building height restrictions are suggested as usefull to create urban walls and maintain views for tall buildings. It is proposed that the basic unit of urban design and development is a high intensity urban cell. Elements crucial to the life of …
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Vacancy durations in the office market
… key characteristics -- unit size, asking rent, building height, and floor number -- are found significant across all model specifications. Specifically, vacancy durations are affected the most by unit size and asking rent. Survival probabilities are found to considerably vary over time, which …
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Uncovering the premium for higher floors in office space
… vary across different floors within the same building? This question seeks to understand the heterogeneity of real estate by considering the location in three dimensions. This thesis aims to answer that question by analyzing office suite listings across geographies. The asking rents from …
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Vertical City
… the potential solution of increasing city height limits. Analysis of proposals like Le Corbusier's Three Million City and Radiant City provides insights into crucial factors such as building height and ground plane considerations. The further investigation includes the demolished Kowloon …
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Development of a Novel Controllable Seismic Isolation System Based on Negative Stiffness Concept
… ASNSD is then applied to multiple storeys of a building to develop an adaptive seismic negative stiffness system (ASNSS) to achieve vibration isolation along the building height. Following that, a comprehensive multi-objective optimization is conducted to obtain optimal structural parameters of …
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A STUDY OF FAÇADE THERMAL PERFORMANCE FOR NON-AIR CONDITIONED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
… especially for nonair- conditioned residential buildings. Fagade system is the 'skin' of the building, which separates the indoor and outdoor environment and is the most important part of the building to provide suitable thermal environment to the indoor space. In this study, the thermal fagade …
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A comparative study on the seismic performance of concrete and steel Diagrid structures
… been more widely used in the current Diagrid building designs, especially with mid-rise buildings. Looking through the entire portfolio of completed Diagrid structures, there are very few Diagrid tall building structures located in the area where seismic forces govern the lateral design. An …
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Prediction of Building Count and Dimensions from U.S. Census Data Using Multiple Regression
… Elevation Models (DEMs). Another obstruction is buildings, which are common in populated areas, and therefore of particular concern to wireless providers. Unfortunately, digital data for buildings in U.S. cities and towns are often non-existent, difficult to obtain, or very costly. In light of …
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Optimising BIPV in High-Rise Buildings in Hot Climates: A Parametric Study and Design Tool
Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) offer strong potential for high-rise buildings in hot climates, but practical adoption remains limited. This thesis investigates how structural parameters affect the natural ventilation cooling and electrical performance of high-rise BIPV systems, and …
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Hyperdensity : revival of social fabric
In Hangzhou, building height restriction is employed to preserve views and historical values, this renders a comparatively low density in the city center. Unable to accommodate the pressure of rapid urbanization, much of the existing social and urban construct are continuously challenged and …
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Outdoor wind speed enhancement in residential precincts in tropical cities
… (CFD) modeling to explore the potential of building porosity to increase wind speeds at the pedestrian level. The computational models are first validated with experiments to justify the exclusion of thermal effects, as the models over-predict the thermal effects on heated surfaces. …
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Improving road ice prediction through the introduction of GIS gererated geographical parameters to an ice forecasting model
… has found a more accurate method for modelling building heights from medium resolution IFSAR data, which has resulted in an 11% improvement in building height estimations. Finally, this research goes onto discuss further research and how a more detailed assessment of the methodologies under …
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Urban weather generator user interface development : towards a usable tool for integrating urban heat island effect within urban design process
… planners to advocate zoning regulations such as building height and land use as well as policies for traffic intensity with energy and thermal implications of these interventions. UWG is the first tool publicly available that incorporates microclimatic considerations in urban design and energy …
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Inelastic Dynamic Behavior And Design Of Hybrid Coupled Wall Systems
A key consideration in seismic design of buildings is to ensure that the lateral load resisting system has an appropriate combination of strength, stiffness and energy dissipation capacity. Hybrid coupled wall systems, in which steel beams are used to couple two or more reinforced concrete shear …
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