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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"compact cities"”.
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Vertical greening in compact cities applying vertical landscape in downtown Chicago with integrated analysis and design approaches
Compact cities as the globally norm are suffering green space insufficiency. Vertical greening (VG) including a green roof, living wall system and green façade is proposed as an effective solution for that. Benefits of VG are well-known, however, the success rate for its application is still low. …
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Latino lifestyle & the new urbanism : synergy against sprawl
… development models; a choice between developing compact cities, preserving the environment or increasing urban sprawl and slums. A central argument of this thesis is that, given their household characteristics, the growing Latino population (the future majority population group) may become a key …
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Sustainable urban forms for Chinese typical new towns
… new town plans differ from both historic capital cities and the work units of the Maoist period, classifying them into four types based on featured visual elements. Last, this thesis proposes linear networking compact cities as a model for typical micro-scale towns. Constructing linear urban …
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Re-urbanizing Ismailia : by implementing an urban infill housing strategy
… During the ensuing years, Ismailia remained compact and respected a dense and well-organized urban fabric, following its original plan. However, the city was evacuated in 1967 for six years during the Arab-Israeli war (1948-1973). It was in the latter half of the twentieth century, that …
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Essays in development economics
… firms, in a spatial equilibrium framework. More compact cities are characterized by larger population, lower wages, and higher rents, consistent with compact shape being a consumption amenity. The welfare cost of deteriorating city shape is estimated to be sizeable. The effects of unfavorable …
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On the Energy Sustainability of Active and Passive Building Integrated Technologies in the Context of a Changing Climate for Tropical Coastal Cities
… This vulnerability is amplified in compact cities where anthropogenic heat removal from the built environment further increases the temperature of the urban canyon with feedback on human comfort and energy demands. Although there has been prior work reported on mitigating energy …
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Understanding residential infill: a Christchurch case study of typologies and stakeholders
Advocates for Compact City, Smart Growth and New Urbanism claim intensification of land use as a means to achieve sustainability imperatives, manage urbanisation and curb peripheral sprawl. It appears policy makers and planners have taken this perspective into consideration over the last two …