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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"natural features"”.
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Determining the Suitability of Functional Landscapes and Wildlife Corridors Utilizing Conservation GIS Methods in Denton County, Texas.
Denton County's unique cultural and natural landscape has undergone dramatic transformations during the past two centuries due to agricultural, urban and suburban processes which accelerated the loss and removal of native habitat and wildlife. This research sought out to identify the remaining …
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Interpretive Potential of South Dakota Wetlands
… important. Ninety-one percent believed that natural features and wildlife on prairie marshes would be interesting enough to justify interpretive facilities. This, and other information gathered, should be considered when establishing interpretive areas on prairie wetlands.
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The Huacas of Machu Picchu: Inca Stations for The Communion Between Humanity and Nature
… order to visually orient humans to significant natural features of the surrounding environment. Inca stonemasons refined the natural form of the huacas so that they mimic the contours of prominent landscape features such as mountain peaks. This dissertation documents 122 huacas at Machu Picchu …
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Artificial intelligence based visual assessment: an explanation system for landscape aesthetic
… expert systems for the assessment of <u>man-made features</u>, <u>natural features</u>, <u>spatial organization</u> and <u>visual composition</u>. The prototype of the system has been preliminarily tested and the results of the evaluation of selected landscape photographs is encouraging. The …
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TRUTH written in Poetic Lines
Earth has its natural features; mountains, valleys, ocean, rivers, lakes, trees, plants, flowers etc. It has inhabitants; Man, animals, insects, birds etc. Man being supreme creature, introduced architecture to provide shelter for him initially and with the passage of time he brought it to the …
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The Theoretical Symbolism of Eruvin: A Model of Dual-Identity and Sacred Space
… tracks, roadways and telephone wires, as well as natural features like rivers to create a continuous boundary. This paper will examine the theoretical significance of creating such a space. My argument maintains that beyond the functional application for observant Jews, <em>eruvin</em> strengthen …
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Architecture/landscape : an urban sanctuary on Boston Harbor
… chapel. restaurant/meeting hall and designed features of the landscape. Several general issues guided this exploration: Architecture and Landscape: How can the design of architecture and the design of landscape be conceived of as equal contributors to the experience of a place? How can the …
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La tecnología de elaboración de vino como factor determinante del diseño constructivo de las bodegas
… to spanish and international markets. The use of natural features to reach the humidity and temperatura and the use of gravity in moving fluids, have been some of the parameters under we have built wine-cellers for long time. There are many types of wine-celler that have been built, that have …
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Endless Horizons Bed and Breakfast: A lodging retreat center
… possess relaxing qualities which through God naturally occur. The major emphasis in this thesis is that of utilizing in architecture all that God reveals in nature, and that through this example one can find tranquility. The ideal context is found anywhere nature can be appreciated, but for …
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The architectural design process and indoor air quality
… things such as people's needs and activities, natural features of earth, manufactured products, etc to each other in a systematic way that he or she can produce solutions for design problems and select the most suitable solution to meet people's needs. Thus a building can be imagined as if it …
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Vegetation and land-use data collection methods for environmental management purposes, with particular reference to the rivers entering False Bay, Cape, South Africa
… areas, while taking physical, socio-economic and natural features into account. To be most meaningful, these data should be stored in a survey information system which is accessible to any person or institution involved in management or developmental policy formulation. Chapter 2 describes some of …
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Multiscale Anthropogenic Impacts on Stream Condition and Fish Assemblages in Amazonian Landscapes.
… of both water quality and physical habitat features) responds to landscape-scale anthropogenic disturbances and natural features (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 then investigates changes in fish species richness, abundance and composition following changes in both instream habitat and landscape-scale …
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Utilité publique : architecture, urbanism, and aesthetic reform in turn of the century France
… through the preservation of both buildings and natural features, the promotion of architecture as a form of art for the public, and the new practice of urban planning. In bringing this moment when architecture's aesthetics were conceived as public utility to light, my study offers a new …
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A new framework for the interpretation of modulated martensites in shape memory alloys
… a new framework for the interpretation of MMs as natural features of the material's energy landscape (expressed as a function of the lattice parameters and individual atomic positions within a perfect infinite crystal). From this energy-based framework, a new understanding of MMs as a mixture of …
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Protection of private land under the Reserves Act 1977 : with case studies and examples of protected private land in the Taranaki Land District : [dissertation, Diploma in Parks and Recreation, Lincoln College]
… countryside draws its unique qualities from both natural features and cultural influences. A number of agencies our heritage from destruction. The New Zealand Forest Service follows a policy of conservation and has set up forest parks for the protection of significant ecological areas, recreation, …
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Archaeological Prospecting Using Historic Aerial Imagery: Investigations in Northeast and Southwest Arkansas
… sites, possible archaeological, modern, and natural features were digitized. Within-site visibility was reexamined with respect to the sites' temporal ranges, previously documented structures and features, seasonal differences of the imagery, and disturbances from modern land-use. Historic …
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Long-term patterns of mortality and regeneration in near-natural woodland
1. Long-term patterns of natural regeneration, growth, mortality and disturbance were recorded in six native lowland woods around Britain, using a series of permanent transects/plots established during the 1950-80s. Records were made including the position and status of trees, shrubs, established …
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Avaliação da qualidade das águas nas cisternas Comunidade Uruçu no município de Gurinhém: uma abordagem geográfica.
… solution for coexistence and can be related to natural features of the region. Many programs and projects were created aiming at the implementation of the reservoirs, the acting are the government and some NGOs, they stand out from the ASA (Articulation of Brazilian Semiarid) with his project …
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Building walls, breaking boundaries : a study of difference and inclusion at Deer Park, Cape Town
… multicultural city, endowed with a monumental natural landscape that defines its edges. Despite this, the visual language of the city is one of spatial separation; a result of the enduring legacy of Cape Town’s colonial past and modernist city planning, and further perpetuated by the …
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Inventing the Charles River Basin : urban images and civic discourse in Boston, 1844-1994
… one of the most visible and carefully preserved natural features of Boston. In fact, the Basin is a totally contrived landscape. Before its creation could begin, the river had first to be imagined as a single public space. Robert Gourlay was the first to envision the Charles as "an amphitheatre …
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