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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"built environments"”.
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Vertical greening in urban built environments
… enhancements to address climate risks in densely built cities, attention has been directed in recent times towards encouraging surface greening approaches. The thesis presented here acknowledged this trend and examined how the typology described as ‘vertical greening’ contributes to this climate …
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Supporting User Interactions with Smart Built Environments
… academia and industry. We use the term smart built environments (SBE) to describe smart, intelligent, physical, built, architectural spaces ranging from a single room to a whole city. Legacy SBEs were often closed systems operating their own standards and custom protocols. SBEs evolved to …
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Monitoring and designing built environments with computer vision
… regularity we expect to see in scenes of built environments in outputs of 2D semantic segmentation methods. Finally, we address practical concerns of existing generative models for hierarchically structured 3D shapes.
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Towards vision based robots for monitoring built environments
… monitoring. Once a structure (e.g. a bridge) is built, inspection becomes an important yet dangerous and costly job. We can provide a solution to both problems if we can simplify or automate visual data collection, monitoring, and analysis. In this work, we focus specifically on improving …
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Passive enhancement of air flow at pedestrian level in built environments
A densely built environment has low wind speed at the pedestrian level due to flow obstruction induced by buildings. Urban street canyons, the outdoor spaces formed between buildings, often have much lower wind speed than the atmospheric wind above the roof level. In tropical regions, wind plays an …
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Rights of power vs. power of rights: synthesis of Muslim built environments
This research is about two modes of built environment production that coexist in the contemporary Arab Muslim world. It argues that the contemporary (acquired modem-capitalist) mode is based on the concept of power; however, the traditional Islamic (inherited) mode is based on the concept of rights …
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A Relational Framing for Ecologically Supportive Communities: A Decolonial Alternative to “Sustainability” in the Built Environments
A relational framing that sees reality as a web of interdependent relationships has the ability to guide ecologically supportive ways of living for all species. To better inform decision-making for (community) designers, this work unpacks relationality into key “entry points”–including kinship, …
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The use of design elements to predict visual compatibility between natural and built environments, scenic beauty, and severity of impact
… visual compatibility between natural and built environments. In the first study subjects (N=109) rated one of three versions of color slides of 20 western United States landscape scenes on how much they consisted of 11 simple visual elements (Round, Square, Conical, Cylindrical, Vertical, …
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From Heaven on Earth to Smart Cities: How Utopianism Shifted from Social Structures to Digital Built Environments in the 21st Century
Future cities are largely mentioned with utopia in the 21st century. Yet, many also think that utopias are pre-21st-century texts or designs. In the early 21st century, the concept of a digital city began to be connected to utopian ideas. Smart city, sustainable city,15-minute city, and many more …
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Towards a Unified Framework for Smart Built Environment Design: An Architectural Perspective
Smart built environments (SBE) include fundamentally different and enhanced capabilities compared to the traditional built environments. Traditional built environments consist of basic building elements and plain physical objects. These objects offer primitive interactions, basic use cases and …
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Natural Rhythms and Temporal Perception - Visualization of Sunlight Patterns with Energy Monitoring
… those related to the movement of the sun. Many built environments have no connection to the exterior. Those who work in these spaces are disconnected from these natural rhythms and often experience detrimental physiological effects. However, technology has the potential to reintroduce aspects of …
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IT’S MORE THAN A RAMP! The Comprehensive Accessibility Enhancement Package (CAEP) for Public Spaces
Urban environments quite often do not meet accessibility requirements. This thesis examines how Cities can make their built environments accessible, inclusive and welcoming. Using a design and research science approach this thesis developed a response in the form of the Comprehensive Accessibility …
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Form and territory : a comparison between four areas in Cairo
In the design of the built environment, it is very important to understand and realize the importance of design decisions such as - The form of the environment to be created. - The percentage of the open and built areas . - The different territories that this form of environment can hold. This …
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A variation of the New Urbanism : provision of a public realm for the City of Attleboro, Massachusetts
… played a role in bringing reconsideration to our built environments for more than a decade. Its ideals and visions can have feasibility through various forms such as housing developments, town center developments, or redevelopment of existing downtown or deteriorating industrial, or commercial …
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Under construction: infrastructure and modern fiction
… interactions between characters and their built environments. The writers central to this project—James Joyce, William Faulkner, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Mohsin Hamid—take up the representational challenges posed by infrastructure by bringing transit networks, sanitation systems, and …
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Multilevel Analysis of Physical Activity Among US Adults Across US Census Regions: The Role of Environmental Contexts
… conditions inclusive of natural amenity, built environment, urbanization, crime, and social economic neighborhood are associated with physical activity and whether these associations are modified by geographic region. The study also investigates whether the influences of environmental …
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Built space
This thesis explores the spatial qualities of built environments through observation and design. Recognition that we move through our environment should be reflected in the space we design. Where applicable, a series of sequential sketches are used to observe/design the spatial variety of places …
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Indoor Human Sensing for Human Building Interaction
… and ubiquitous computing to create smart built environments that are seamlessly aware of and responsive to the occupants. Human sensing system is one of the key enabling technologies for smart built environments. We present our research findings related to the design and deployment of an …
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Neighbourhood Built Characteristics and their Associations with Health-related Fitness in Adults
… evidence associates the neighbourhood built environment with physical activity and with health outcomes. However, sparse evidence links the neighbourhood built environment and health-related fitness. Existing studies typically focussed on cardiorespiratory or morphological fitness, yet …
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"It's not just about the buildings, it's about the people": architecture practice, and preservation in post-Katrina New Orleans
… integrates traditional approaches to built environments that take seriously the physical form and presence of buildings with more recent scholarship that employs performance and practice theory to address the embodied, contingent, and ongoing practices through which buildings are …
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