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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"dense city"”.
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Implications of the Dense City Centre to Surface-Atmosphere Exchanges
In dense urban areas, micro-meteorological processes are closely entangled with human activities. This study of the central business district (CBD) analyses an extended (3.5 years) dataset of surface-atmosphere energy exchanges in London. The focus is on the controls on radiation, anthropogenic …
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Genius Loci---Vertical Temple Design
… I try to build the temple for people in the high dense city, which help people to find and think for themselves, to keep peaceful. I believe people and space could build the journey to the pilgrimage. The Buddha joss will not be made in the temple, but be established in every visitor's mind …
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CapaCity In the Sky
Manhattan, as a model of a city with little room for lateral growth, is a good example of one driven by verticality. But verticality has its drawbacks with little light penetrating the dense urban jungle, populated by its collection of iconic towers. The concerns are many, but the one most relevant …
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Light electric freight vehicles in last-mile delivery
… LEFV are a worthy alternative to vans in dense city areas, due to their high speed on short distances and their maneuverability in city areas. While merging the parcel and mail network with the current vehicle fleet leads to a distribution cost reduction of 1%, the inclusion of LEFV in a …
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Restorative Healing Environments: How can Mental, Physical and Spiritual Wellbeing be Improved through a Biophilic Design Approach?
… living we will have to design compact and dense city to minimize the amount of traveling in between places. But compact and dense cities presents challenges to integrate nature and finding ways to make it possible for people in these environments to still be able to interact with nature and …
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Floating infrastructures : architecture beyond borders : united points
… NM away form shore lines. Water would give this dense city type environments in dependency from land and nation's jurisdictions and allow more nations to join its cause eventually. Also, With more body of water on our planet today more than ever it seems logical to study a place for refuge where …
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How system configuration shapes demand: agent-based simulation of mobility-on-demand systems
… operators would risk concentrating services in dense city centers while neglecting suburban and rural areas, underlining the need for regulatory integration into public transport (PT). Looking forward, future simulation research should address heterogeneity in user preferences, stronger …
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SMALL SCALE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE. The environmental impacts within a context of tropical megacities, with a focus on Sao Paulo’s public Schools
… allocation within cities, in particular denser ones, should overall be praised. However, there isn’t an expressive number of studies dedicated to investigating and calculating in depth its positive and perhaps negative repercussions, mainly regarding pollutant particles such as PM2.5 and …
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DeTROYt
An attempt to save the city of Detroit, Michigan, and its existing buildings by giving it a new meaning and future. Cars and roads are eliminated. Tiger Stadium is converted into a city-wide freight receiving and shipping facility. A system of pneumatic tubes is implemented in each neighborhood, …