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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"residential communities"”.
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The restructure of amenities in Beijing's peripheral residential communities
… in its urban peripheral, an increasing number of communities have emerged that are comprised of monotonous housing projects. However, after the basic residential living requirements are satisfied, many other problems (including lack of amenities, distance between home and workplace which is …
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Co-Creating a Socio-Technical Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Crime-Reporting Mobile Apps in Urban Residential Communities
… safety and foster social cohesion in urban communities, adoption of existing crime-reporting apps remains low because they overemphasize technological features at the expense of social realities. To address this problem, the study builds on socio-technical systems theory to addresses this …
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Preferences of Social Interaction for Environmental Attributes Among Grandparents Who Are Taking Care of Grandchildren in Two Chinese Residential Communities Located in Shanghai, China
… of their grandchildren within selected urban residential communities in Shanghai, China. This thesis also assesses the needs of these grandparents providing childcare against the environmental attributes of urban public spaces. It uses the results to formulate design recommendations that will …
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Shared landscapes : building connections in the suburbs
… community spaces. Recent interest in mixed-use residential communities indicates a desire for a greater reintegration of the individual household with the collective life of a larger community. A crucial place to investigate this urbanistic transformation of suburban development is at the basic …
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Higher Education Housing Professionals and Disability: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Resident Directors’ Understandings of Disability
<p>The residential experiences of students with disabilities in higher education play a pivotal role in their overall campus education. However, little is known about the ways in which the staff who manage and support these residential environments understand and work with issues and concepts of …
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The new food-tech city : adapting Chicago's post-stockyard urbanism
… production, and marketing (as well as new residential communities.) The goal is to formulate a design solution that selectively packages existing elements (river, warehouses, workforce) with new buildings, infrastructure, and public spaces - to build a flexible urban network that will …
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Somewhere between place and direction
… of that exploration; offer the design of a residential community that draws its energy from the place and aspires to extend the life of the town through an intensification of Main Street America.
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The effect of contemporary supermarket formats (superstores) on surrounding residential property values
… considered to be an amenity and a convenience in residential communities where they are located. It is thus hypothesized that households will prefer to live near superstores to enhance shopping opportunities. On the other hand, it is also hypothesized that households will wish to avoid …
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Opportunistic infrastructure : the Trans-Manhattan Expressway
… miles, Washington Heights is one of the densest residential communities in Manhattan. Within this dense community no identifiable civic centers exist. However, the convergence of infrastructure and urbanism has the potential to synthesis new opportunities. This contemporary paradigm morphs …
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Military housing privatization & the promise of design innovation
… are, "What specific role has the Army's Residential Communities Initiative played in fostering innovation? What are the key process drivers? What (if any) specific building product innovations have arisen from an architectural, sustainability, construction technology and community …
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Explaining the Variability of Free-Living and Attached Bacterioplankton Abundances in the Bay of St. Louis, Mississippi
… DeLisle, and Pass Christian. In addition to residential communities, various industrial and commercial sites inhabit the watershed and coastline. The Hollywood casino, DuPont titanium dioxide plant, and multiple sew_age treatment plants, as well as nonpoint sources of pollution, contribute to …
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Institutional expansion, community relations, and the hospital next door
… The relationship between hospitals and the communities in which they are located has been affected by constantly changing economic, political, and social factors. During the early days of urban renewal in the 1950s and early 1960s, large teaching hospitals in Boston experienced a surge of …
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Sense of Place and New Urbanism: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Place and Form
… urban forms in the creation or redevelopment of residential communities. Although design professionals are increasingly adopting these design tenets in the creation of new communities, there is no research that either supports or rejects New Urbanism's underlying assumption that neotraditional …
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Re[source]
… (Kogelberg Biosphere) and informal and formal residential communities. It is, therefore, a case study that is adapted to become a Re[source] centre that acts as an alchemist, who sees potential in these residual mundane spaces and materials and transforms it to become a valuable public …
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Risk management with residential real estate derivatives : strategies for home builders
… home builders might use index-based residential property derivatives to manage risk. After describing a number of alternative reasons for hedging, I argue for a paradigm for risk management proposed by Kenneth Froot, David Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein and augmented by Antonio Mello …
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A computational approach to urban economics
… are crucial to the flow of new ideas across communities and their productivity. This contributes to the body of evidence which supports the notion that efficient information exchange is the key factor that drives innovation. To investigate how urban environments shape people's decisions, we …
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A risk-based fire and rescue management system
… consequences in order to reduce fire risk across residential communities. The model itself is broken down into four parts which can function independently or together as an integrated network. The model parts are as follows: Part I - "Initial fire development". Part II - "Occupancy response and …
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Ageing and Downward Mobility in Later Life: The Negotiation of Life Chances by Vulnerable Older Persons in Singapore
… for them to generate resources within residential communities. One way this could be achieved is through collaborative efforts to initiate, build, and support the growth of neighbourhood-based enterprises.
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Smart inverters for seamless voltage and frequency dynamics in microgrids
… single-phase feeders at distribution level for residential communities that are suffering from power imbalance within the phases during islanded mode. To attain this, a seamless transition algorithm is presented which monitors the system condition in real time and sends appropriate commands to …
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Competitive Microgrid Electricity Market Design
… of wide-scale deployment of microgrids serving residential communities in near future and develops a comprehensive understanding of microgrid electricity market. A novel concept of Community Microgrids is introduced and the market and business models for electricity transaction are proposed and …
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