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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"city image"”.
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City Image: a dynamic perspective using machine learning and natural language processing
The city image is a collective mental image of the city elements that can be perceived and interpreted by the public. The broader one’s understanding of the city image, the better urban design we will have. Over half a century ago, Kevin Lynch innovatively introduced this idea and summarized five …
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Urban experience and the development of city image: a study in environmental perception and learning.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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Explorations in City Image: An Investigation of Tools of Perception and Representation in Urban Design
The map is vitally important for space design. Maps allow designers to record and filter impossibly complex information about an environment. Designers try to capture a variety of aspects of a site through the use of graphic tools like maps and drawings. While there is a long-established …
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C-IMAGE : city cognitive mapping through geo-tagged photos
… categorizes people's perceptions towards the city environment with Kevin Lynch's five elements: node, path, edge, district, and landmark. His method has been a keystone in guiding both urban design and urban study for decades. However, enabled by the proliferation of crowd sourcing technology, …
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[D]urbanism: The revelation of repressed transgression
… from the skeletal remains of modern urbanism. A city branded as devastated is actually the epitome of owning the margin. This thesis amalgamates disenfranchised city islands by accelerating Detroit's underlying and inherent urbanism of transgressive circulation and communication pathways through …
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Urban megaprojects-based approach in urban planning: from isolated objects to shaping the city:The case of Dubai
… in recent years the main tool in drawing a city image that aims to compete with the world global cities. Through UMPs, an economy based on spectacle and fascination is being deployed, within a complex system of governance that encompasses family ties, business logic and individualist …
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Constructing global Amman: petrodollars, identity, and the built environment in the early twenty-first century
… Amman in the early twenty-first century on the city’s urban built environment. The study is carried out through an in-depth analysis of three case studies of contemporary megaprojects in Amman: the Abdali New Downtown, Sanaya Amman, and Jordan Gate. The research methods include reviewing …
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Equilibriums of Paradox: Pittsburgh's Urban Renaissance through Public Transport
The city of Pittsburgh, PA has been losing population since the steel trade imploded in the 1970's. Every decade, the city lost more inhabitants and began to be hollowed out in the typical fashion of a Rust Belt city. For the first time in four decades, the city saw a rise in population in 2008. …
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Nudging Permanence
Across Berlin’s history, the street- as image, as space, as imaginary, as activity – has been, and continues to be, continuously appropriated and contested by stakeholders across the city - residents, owners, shopkeepers, tourists and others. Top-down politicians and public entities have long been …
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Pronounced Absurdity: The Wedding-scape Outside a Conical Field
… the visual consumption fever in China. Xiamen, a city branding itself as the international wedding capital, expects a new typology of wedding park that conforms its highly dense urban fabric and city image around weddings. The double-image phenomenon in a wedding park is paralleled in a dummy …
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Business incubators as an economic development strategy : a case study of Oakland's communications technology cluster
… job creation, business retention, and effects on city image as evaluation measurements, this research shows that CTC has produced mixed results. In the process of evaluating CTC, several larger issues emerge, of which workforce development, business services, and the city's hard and "soft" …
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Tree protection in Christchurch : the legal aspects : a major design study submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln College, University of Canterbury
… 5 Christchurch local authorities - Christchurch City, Waimairi District, Riccarton Borough, Heathcote County and Paparua County Councils - and the legislation empowering them to do so although other legislation and tree protection methods will also be covered. Trees are an integral part of the …
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Imagining a city never visited: a case study of destination images of London held by Czech non-visitors
… in the under-researched area of destination images held by non-visitors. In particular, it investigates what the images of London held by the Czech non-visitors are, how these were formed and how country and place of residence influence these images and their formation. Overall, three hundred …