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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"city block"”.
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The Civic Life of the City Block
… basic elements that make civic structure of a city at the scale of a block. These elements are broken down into: Site, Boundary, Axis, Residence, Commerce, and Civic. The major focus being on Civic and the engagement of making a virtuous citizen through the study of the self and the formal …
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Optimization algorithms for multidimensional scaling with city-block distances and their parallelization /
… set is considered. Here, for the sake of simplicity, an element of a multidimensional data set is called a multidimensional element. There are many techniques for visualizing multidimensional elements. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is one of them. In applying MDS, a certain real function has to …
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Multi-resolution analysis of earthquake losses : from city block to national scale
Thesis (S.M. in Transportation)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
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Deconstructing places : a data-driven ethnography of neighborhood change for one New York city block
… rate of change for the 1817 to 2017 period for Block 800 in New York City. Quantitatively, long-run metrics on rates of neighborhood change were previously unable to identify. In this way, I was able to document that change is always happening to a building, property, person or price, but its …
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The Different Lives of Spaces - Reconsidering the City Block as a New Neighborhood in Washington Dc
The city with its urban density, infrastructure, and cultural, social and educational opportunities can be a desirable place to live for all - regardless of age, income or background. The city of today has changed considerably from the city of the 19th century. Neither is it the city of the future. …
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Optimizavimo algoritmai daugiamatėms skalėms su miesto kvartalo atstumais ir jų lygiagretinimas /
… set is considered. Here, for the sake of simplicity, an element of a multidimensional data set is called a multidimensional element. There are many techniques for visualizing multidimensional elements. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is one of them. In applying MDS, a certain real function has to …
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Natural Forms: Stimuli For Urban Architecture
… for appropriate design of a master plan for a city block and the details of an inn that is part of the master plan. The design is studied in the context of the Clarendon sector of Arlington County, Virginia. Clarendon was the old commercial center of Arlington, which generated numerous layers …
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Green Infrastructure: The Landscape of Urban EcoHousing
… design for the Urban EcoHousing development on a city block in Alexandria, Virginia. Design goals for the project connect the "Ecological Services of the Urban Landscape" to the "Rights of the Urban EcoHousing Resident" to create livable green spaces that can serve ecological functions and give …
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An Urban Graduate Center
… building complex the approximate size of a small city block. The building complex includes places for learning, places for meeting, and places for contemplation. The project offers the opportunity to investigate the process of designing architecture. While the project relates to needs of …
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Unlocking the Urban Box: A Multi-Use Building for Asheville, NC
The city block may be seen as the fabric of the urban environment. It is often a compacted form, divided only by changing facades and party walls. Boxes all in rows. There is an inescapable sense of enclosure. Architecture has the potential to unlock the box, allowing interaction between inside and …
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Cast of Civic Characters
… The collective “herd” occupies a single city block. This thesis posits that creature-buildings intensify architecture’s communicative and storytelling potential; by soliciting a fictional vitality, they mythologize architecture’s agency and enable public institutions to craft narratives …
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Re-Imagining the Middle Landscape
… The base of the tower and development of the city block include a cooperative factory for wood based production, innovative bike storage, bike repair shop, shared use digital fabrication lab, shared use shops (wood, metal, and upholstery), loading dock, laundry, gym, shared use office space, …
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Thresholds and Transitions: Inbetween the public and private realm
… my design as a vehicle, taking an entire block of Blacksburg, I have tried to explore the idea by which one could offer a transitional moment between buildings. The in-between spaces provide an opportunity to intervene and choreograph a space which re-engages the dweller through repetitive …
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Identifying person preference in individuals with a profound learning disability and high support needs
… and high support needs was analysed using the city block metric to permit informal statements about the trends within the data. More formal statistical testing was invalid due to difficulties during the data collection phase. The results suggest that the use of systematic preference testing …
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Between public and private : an approach to urban living
The city provides work as well as housing to a great number of individuals, couples and families who are dependent on the urban environment for employment or education. Unfortunately urban living in today's cities has become disconnected. The dwelling is not a part of the surrounding community but …
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Plain objects
… between the perimeter and core of a typical city block, and the binary conditions that occur as a result of this divide. The emphasis on two faces also creates the effect of flatness, challenging the three-dimensional quality of objects by defining them with twodimensional figures. The …
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Prototyping as a User-Centered and Risk Reduction Approach to the Planning, Design, and Construction of More Sustainable Infrastructure
… with community members, engineers, planners, and city officials in two prototyped projects: a road network in Macon, Georgia and a re-designed city block in Akron, Ohio. The researchers coded the interviews for evidence of how prototyping enhanced citizen engagement and how the design team was …
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Incisions / Insertions: re-inscribing narrative into a city landscape
… the shoreline of Cape Town, this once walled off city has undergone plentiful re-inscriptions of the landscape till today. Remnants of the old French line fortifications remain along the slope of Trafalgar Park, disregarded and lost in the city 'scapes. The reading and re-tracing to pre-existing …
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Are poor people healthier in rich or poor areas?: The psychosocial effects of socioeconomic incongruity in the neighbourhood
… the health impact of living in a low status city block within a wider neighbourhood of high status. In the first two studies, it was found that the positive association between neighbourhood status and health is weakest amongst the lowest status mothers, and whilst high status mothers were …
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Local architectural identities within modernization context in southern China
… County architecture. A 200 meter by 250 meter city block next to a vernacular village two miles from the Old County Town is the test site for this approach. It is a housing development project which focuses on the relationships between rural areas and urban, public and private, community and …
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