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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"expressway"”.
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BLOOMING EXPRESSWAY : ORCHID FARMING OVER THE BUKIT TIMAH EXPRESSWAY
… first, an animal bridge over the Bukit Timah Expressway, and secondly, the tradition of orchid cultivation in Singapore.
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Opportunistic infrastructure : the Trans-Manhattan Expressway
Urban Infrastructure: bridges, expressways, and on and off ramps often create barriers and uninhabitable spaces within the urban context. This phenomenon is evident in northern Manhattan where the Trans-Manhattan Expressway has imposed profound divisions within the dense urban community of …
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Feasibility of privatization of expressway [i.e. expressways] in Japan
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1993.
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The effects of a depressed expressway : a Detroit case study
Thesis (M.U.P.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, 1956
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Plan for an area affected by the Valley Forge Expressway
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1950.
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Urban Expressway Safety and Efficiency Evaluation and Improvement using Big Data
… become an urgent call. In this study, the urban expressway network operated by Central Florida Expressway Authority's (CFX) traffic safety and efficiency was investigated. The expressway system is equipped with multiple Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). CFX utilizes Automatic Vehicle …
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Brief encounter : transformation of space underneath elevated expressway through surface design
… often resulted in erections of elevated expressways. These infrastructures are cost efficient remedy to growing traffic flow and to improve connections between points in and around cities. However, they often generate problems by breaking the continuity of urban fabric, therefore, …
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SKY RECRE-ATIONAL HUB : RECLAIMING AIR SPACE ABOVE ECP EXPRESSWAY : RECONNECTING DISSECTED SPACES
… does not take into account multiple land use. Expressways currently take up about six percent of Singapore’s total land area, and there is great potential to utilize the air space above these highways to meet future needs. This thesis believes in a paradigm shift in treating infrastructure as …
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Reclaiming no-man's land : a case study in the utilization of expressway land-scraps
… The chosen site is a tangled intersection of expressways in the center of Boston. A plan is developed for the construction of a complex of new social spaces literally enveloping the expressway, incorporating the spaces above and below ramps and highway spans. There are two particular insights …
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Prototype designs for the use of space around an existing urban expressway in Chelsea
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1967. M.C.P.
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Municipal High Modernism and “Negotiation”: Toronto’s Post-War Governance and Expressway Arrangement c. 1943 - 1971
… The history engages with the expansion of an expressway-tethered stretch of urban and suburban space now known as the “Golden Horseshoe”: surveying the location of automobile plants in cities along the rail lines; capital flight from Quebec; and suburban developer’s encroachment upon …
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Deconstructing Elevated Expressways: An Evaluation of the Proposal to Remove the Interstate 10 Claiborne Avenue Expressway in New Orleans, Louisiana
… in New Orleans, Louisiana. The I-10 Claiborne Expressway provided access to downtown by destroying a tree-lined boulevard and contributing to the decline of an African American neighborhood. In 2005, after hurricane Katrina, several community-based plans proposed that the elevated I-10 …
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Evaluating foreign Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) projects using the adjusted net present value (ANPV) method : Thailand's Second Stage Expressway (SES)
… toll road project in Thailand, the Second Stage Expressway (SES). The SES is found to be economically viable even under the most pessimistic scenario, attesting to the project's resilience to country risks. More importantly, the ANPV framework reveals the key sources of the project's value, …
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Theory, place, and opportunity : black urbanism as a design strategy for the potential removal of the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans
… the growing argument for the removal of elevated expressways in cities' urban core. In New Orleans, the Claiborne Expressway, a spur off of Interstate 10 planned by Robert Moses, runs through the heart of what is considered America's first Black neighborhood, and the neighborhood that birthed …
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Infrastructure finance in Africa through the Public Private Partnership (PPP): Is the Lekki-Epe Toll Road (Nigeria) economically sustainable?
… benefits from the concession of Lekki-Epe Expressway out-weighed the cost of constructing the purported road. 3. To determine whether the inflows from toll Lekki-Epe expressway can economically sustain the cost over-run on the Lekki-Epe express road concession.
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Online calibration for simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment : towards large-scale and real-time performance
… synthetic network and the large-scale Singapore expressway network. Finally, compared with the traditional finite difference method, the PSP reduces the number of computations by 90% and achieves the same calibration accuracy on the Singapore expressway network. The proposed methodologies have …
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City/edge
… In our towns, smaller-scale edge cities occur at expressway exits outside the town limits, or where the business route into town separates from the bypass around it. "City/edge" is an architectural reconsideration of the edge city.
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Privatization of highway public corporations in Japan
… Public Corporation (JHPC), the Metropolitan Expressway Public Corporation (MEPC), the Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation (HEPC) and the Honshu Shikoku Bridge Authority (HSBA) are considered as ones of the sectors, which have the top priority for reform. The objective of this thesis is to …
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Assessing the Performance of Public-Private Partnership Highway Projects: From Anecdotes to Comprehensive Evidence
… States: I-495 Capital Beltway Express, LBJ Expressway, SR 125 (South Bay Expressway), and SH 130 (5and6) to examine the extent that state, investor, producer, and user/citizen interests were fulfilled. Overall, I-495 and LBJ Expressway met stakeholder interests more effectively than SR 125 …
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A museum about the city: an air rights proposal for Boston
The John F. Kennedy Expressway, commonly known as The Central Artery, is an elevated highway running north-south through downtown Boston. It is an immense structure which cuts its way through the urban fabric, is a considerable source of noise and pollution, and visually segregates the city’s …
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