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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"green city"”.
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"Social sustainability and mobility in Curitiba: bus rapid transit in the ""green city"" of Brazil"
… policies, plans and programs implemented in the city of Curitiba, Brazil, in the field of public transportation and urban planning. My conclusions have instructive relevance for urban policy formation, especially in the Global south, where Curitiba is heralded as a model ""green city"" to be …
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Urban Green Assemblage: A Machinic-MLG Approach to Green Cities
… and sociotechnical imaginaries such as the green city agenda. The thesis critically examines the green city agenda in its presumptive context of a multi-level governance often characterised by humans enacting upon the city infrastructure. Through the case study of Singapore, a city that is …
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Test-Retest Reliability of Phonemic Awareness Assessment Instruments of Kindergarten Students
… Six elementary schools in the Bowling Green City School District participated in the study. A total of 152 students in the kindergarten grades of each school were administered the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, the Test of Phonological Awareness, the Dynamic Indicators …
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The Development of Curriculum-based Measurement Local Norms in the Area of Written Expression
… to establish district norms for Bowling Green City Schools. CBM uses brief fluency measures as indicators of students' academic performance. With the use of CBM, it is possible to identify students who are considered to be at-risk for educational performance. AIMSweb probes were used to …
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Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Through the Alive Center (A Local Information and Volunteer Exchange)
… affiliated with Warren County and Bowling Green City Schools. Qualitative research from the information, resource, and referral centers yielded contact information, program descriptions, website information, and brochures of 39 centers. This research was used during the formative stage of …
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Mobile Labour and Worker Resistance Strategies: A Study of Waste Collectors in Singapore
… initiatives to create a 'clean and green city'. However in the process of analysing the aesthetics of the urban landscape, few scholars have engaged with research on the lives of the (often forgotten) workers who make these changes possible. Prior conceptions of labour have viewed …
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Where have all the brownfields gone? : lessons for Chicago 15 years in
… development and redevelopment policy in the City of Chicago and why a truly "green" city is difficult to achieve. This thesis argues that the City of Chicago, in the context of a region experiencing similar economic and environmental questions, is poised to transform the urban brownfields …
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Use of composite environmental indicators in residential construction
… attempts to capture the urban metabolism of the city by tracking the material and energy flows required of various possible reconstruction scenarios. The model is meant to act as a tool for policy makers to identify the most effective construction methods for a green city. Currently, the model is …
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A Critical Examination of Green Economic Development as a Post-Disaster Recovery Approach: The Case of Greensburg, Kansas 2007-2012
… tornado ripped through and annihilated 95% of Greensburg, Kansas, a town of about 1,500 people in the southwestern portion of the state. On the heels of the disastrous Hurricane Katrina federal response and with the promise of two sitting presidents to use all of the federal support available, …
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Integrating Ecosystem Services in urban planning
… of brownfield regeneration scenarios in the city of Trento (Italy). Alternative scenarios are assessed based on the beneficiaries of two key ecosystem services, namely microclimate regulation and nature-based recreation, hence compared through a multi-criteria analysis that allows exploring …
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Urban Green Spaces: Bridging cultural, ecological and political planning gaps to make the city of Colombo a leading ‘Greener-City’
… country shaped by its tropical climate. Greening the cities for beautification, recreation and environmental reasons has occurred here since ancient times. Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka, is a complex fast-growing city. A history of colonisation, first Portuguese, then Dutch …
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Choosing green over gray : Philadelphia's innovative stormwater infrastructure plan
… problems. Proponents have long advocated using a green infrastructure approach, which has numerous advantages over traditional gray infrastructure systems. Nevertheless, very few U.S. cities have invested in green infrastructure on a significant scale. The question, then, is why have cities …
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Yesterday's City of Tomorrow: The Minnesota Experimental City and Green Urbanism
… the rise and fall of the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC), a futuristic attempt from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s to build an all-new, pollution-free metropolis in rural northern Minnesota. As imagined by its inventor, Athelstan Spilhaus, the MXC was to provide a living laboratory for the …
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Obytný soubor na ul. Pastviny v Brně - Komíně
Architektúra vychádzajúca z filozofie návrhu, ukazuje koncept usporiadania osmich objemov s volným vzorom, ktorý vytvára maximálne množstvo otvoreného a ľahkého priestoru. Štruktúra parcely je tvorená so siedmich bytových domov a zo solitérnej vily. Návrh obytného súboru tvoria jasné línie …
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Western Historical Gardens and Chinese Influences--From Great Britain to Picturesque Royal garden in Piedmont
… was always close to the mansion and in the city center that the Chinese created several methods to enlarge its garden in the vision, “contrast”, “borrowing views”, “multi-views” etc., in order to create multiform space in a limited yard. In addition, changing is another subject: change of …