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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"city center"”.
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Revitalizing Kuwait's empty city center
The phenomenon of land vacancy in Kuwait's city center and its adverse effect on both the image of the city and land economics was investigated, and issues of symbolism, character, and identity were addressed. In addition to the description of the physical and natural environments, social context, …
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A study of the wind environment in a city center
The nature and effects of windy conditions in a city are first discussed, recording meteorological data are introduced, and existing criteria for the acceptability of a wind environment with regard to pedestrian comfort are described. General features of wind-tunnel techniques are reviewed. A study …
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Living downtown in Washington, D.C. : defining residential community in the city center
… and vacant lots. In spite of traces of a city plan that could organize and accommodate a variety of activities in the central core, downtown Washington is under used. The eastern section of the downtown, where the majority of decrepit buildings and vacant lots are located, is inhabited …
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Public Agency The encounter between Architecture and the Welfare State in the City Center. London, México, Santiago
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Istanbul Visitor Center
… of the thesis study is designing a visitor center which will be used by tourist who are visiting the city and as well as the by the people who lives in the city. Therefore the visitor center will be functioned as a city center in the middle of the most important tourist attraction location …
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Edinburgh Art School
… the Royal Mile, bridging old and new in a new city center.
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Repowering the void : negotiating connectivity
… initiates reconnection of the east side to the city center, where the need for connectivity. The project explores and negotiates between connectivity principles ecology, society, energy, and density in terms of a post-fordist shift from products to services. Using a large, commuter rail site in …
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Imagining a New Belfast: Municipal Parades in Urban Regeneration
… public opinion regarding the social space of the city center, leading to more integrated and liberal use of the city center. In these events, issues central to Belfast's political life--from tourism, physical redevelopment, to European integration--are addressed through carnivalesque play and …
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Barren urbanity : transition and superimposition
… from the medieval and nineteenth century city center. What I saw was a cold barren landscape dotted with rectilinear concrete slab buildings barricading a livable environment. In contrast to my impression, I held a respect for the place. I saw potential in using the existing apartment …
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The Las Vegas Fremont Street experience: A new tourist destination to revitalize a declining downtown
Downtown Las Vegas, the old city center, represents the history, culture, and heritage of Las Vegas. Casino Core is a district whose function as a planned casino, hotel and entertainment district in the heart of Downtown Las Vegas. With the development of Las Vegas as an international entertainment …
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Urbanism across: new urban ground in Taipei's old city core
… together disparate neighborhoods around the city's main train station. In the late 20th-century, following the post-war economic boom of Taiwan, the government initiated a huge construction project that relocates Taipei's railway infrastructure under the ground. This project initiates the new …
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Hyperdensity : revival of social fabric
… 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 removed in order to embrace new profit-driven developments resulting in functional separation. …
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PORTLAND, MAINE: A CULTURAL GATEWAY CONNECTING WATERFRONT AND CITY
… can serve as a meaningful link between both the city and the waterfront, and city residents and an increasing flow of tourist traffic. Involving community members in its performances and audience, the facility and its programs would serve to communicate the multifaceted identity of Portland to …
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Dematerializing the City
The project is a local cultural center located in Gulou area in the old city center of Beijing, China. This urban intervention establishes a series of harmonious relationships between the city and the architecture, between the urban and the autonomous and between the old and the new . The pattern …
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Three essays on housing: Housing rent and occupational rank in Beijing and Shenyang, China. Rent controls, housing subsidies and privatization: An international perspective. The urban housing reform in China
… on which the unit is located and distance from city center influence rent in similar directions to those one would find in a market economy. Data has been collected from Beijing and Shenyang for cadre (white-collar government employee) housing with ranks of housing renters ranging from junior …
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Centering the periphery: Re-framing East London central business district towards social & spatial equality
… communities and vulnerable groups into the city center, whilst forging connections with adjacent neighborhoods. This strategy situates marginalised communities near essential resources and services while improving access to the CBD. The historical legacy of colonialism and apartheid, coupled …
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Urban Crime in Latin America: A Case Study from Medellín, Colombia
… two factors thought to have contributed to the city's drop in violence: <em>Operación Orión</em>, a police and military response to the bloodshed, and the 2003 disarmament and demobilization of the <em>Bloque Cacique Nutibara</em> paramilitary organization. A series of Paired Sample T-Tests show …
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The City of Brotherly Love? : investigating collaborative planning in Philadelphia's contemporary revitalization initiatives
… is much less focused on the development of the city center and its flagship projects than was the case a decade or so ago. Substantial investment has begun to flow into once forgotten, deteriorating urban neighborhoods and community groups are becoming prominent voices in the reshaping of …
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Hypodensity/Hyperdensity ; or, Apple skies
… This area is close to both the crowded city center and the crowded suburbs but possesses a hefty inertia in a reputation of crime and ugliness. The land itself is virtually useless; most of the earth is reclaimed (unwanted fill from elsewhere), and any hopes of plant life are quashed by …
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Linking the Community with Low Interest Rate Micro Credits Providers-The Case of Makongo Kinondoni Municipal
… area located 15km outside of Dar es Salaam city center, which is found in the Kinondoni Municipality. Community needs assessment was conducted to identify problems, needs, and strengths in a community using a questionnaire as the main method which was supplemented with interview, listening, …
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