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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"urban density"”.
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Inhabitants Within Threshold (Threshold as Antidote for Urban Density)
… re-define the relationship between threshold and urban density. Threshold is an architectural medium, which divides and bridges spaces with certain meanings. Density is the defining character of the urban condition expressed consistently at different scales: from a city to a block, to a building …
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Urban density measures in planning for the Pearl River Delta
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.
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Density and What Matters: A Study of People's Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Urban Density
… the city could be developed is needed. Higher density development, considered as the alternative for urban sprawl, is a new trend for future development. The barrier between advocacy of higher density environment and misconception of density asks for a descriptive and systematic interpretation …
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Dynamics of Economic Corruption
… have floundered. This dissertation argues that urban population density is a major underlying factor of economic corruption that previous studies have never considered before. Increased population density communicate bribe success information rapidly and resistance to it becomes muted as more …
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Architecture of Connection: A Mixed-Use Housing Strategy for Building Urban Community
… to the social isolation brought by increased urban density, less public social space, and current demographic trends that increase the likelihood of our living alone. In an effort to strengthen social networks at multiple scales, this thesis proposes an urban housing community with extensive …
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Detecting Impervious Cover with Artificial Lighting in Astronaut Photography from the International Space Station
… regions, especially the ones in dense urban areas. Mapping the location of impervious surface becomes vital to properly managing drainage and runoff in a city, along with the health of fluvial ecosystems. Kotarba and Aleksandrowicz, in 2016, tested the ability of nighttime astronaut …
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Density and design: the impact of urban densification on design qualities in residential neighbourhoods
This study is focused on the concept of urban intensification, investigating the costs and benefits of higher density urban development. It attempts to define the exact physical patterns and spatial characteristic of the density of residential urban areas in order to establish the extent to which …
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The impact and optimization of the urban industrial mix
The industrial mix is a relevant issue facing urban economies as the modern economy transitions from an industrial to a post-industrial service-based. The first essay estimates the changes and effects of density that result from relative variations in urban industrial composition. This essay …
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City/edge
… evolve, it becomes clear that a centralized urban area is no longer necessary; a web of interconnected centers is the more likely result. This dissolution of urban density is occuring at a variety of scales, from the largest metro areas to smaller towns. Major "edge cities" have tended to …
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Architecture for Urbanity
Designing architecture that reinforces urbanity starts with an intuitive understanding. Urban places are complex, containing many simple systems which combine to make a chaotic whole. This complexity is full of events, incidence and energy. In creating an architecture for urbanity, complexity is …
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Above reproach
… populations continue toward higher levels of urban densification, sprawl has caused the United States to reach an un-sustainability low level of population density. The past six decades of sub-urbanization have left many city centers underpopulated and heavily trafficked as workers no longer …
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MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF EROSION AND DEPOSITION IN THE DESERT KNOLLS WASH
… the DKW were studied to note the increase in urban density.</p> <p>The project has established baseline field measurements to document the magnitude and timing of the ongoing channel changes as well as predict what will happen over the next two decades if measures are not taken to stabilize …
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Linear life: the alley rediscovered
… of the conditions led to the development of urban dwellings in which the alley is dignified and becomes a space for comfortable habitation. The housing settlement is located in downtown Blacksburg, a small college town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. The site is one of the …
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Towards a volumetric city
The Ground is dead. In extremely densed urban area, the single ground do not have the luxury of space to accommodate programmes besides circulation. Other urban components such as elevators, bridges, underground passage are also circulatory oriented. The building mass have grown volumetrically and …
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Análise da mobilidade urbana por transporte sustentável nas cidades médias brasileiras
The objective of this thesis was to explain the urban mobility by means of sustainable transport in the medium Brazilian cities basing on an exploratory econometric model formed by demographic, urban, income and transport system (DURT) variables. The explanation and model could be useful for public …
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Green Promises, Grey Realities: The Politics of Park Provision in Sydney
… of parks in Sydney, Australia, amid shifting urban density and land uses. As the city intensifies through both brownfield and greenfield development, the ability of planning systems to deliver accessible, functional open space is under increasing strain. Despite the growing policy emphasis on …
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Prototypes for public infrastructures
… in order to support the occupation of dense urban centers. Cities are filled with technical structures that handle transportation, water, air, and power amongst other necessities. Expanding infrastructural systems require larger swaths of land to accommodate increasingly specific and singular …
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The Different Lives of Spaces - Reconsidering the City Block as a New Neighborhood in Washington Dc
The city with its urban density, infrastructure, and cultural, social and educational opportunities can be a desirable place to live for all - regardless of age, income or background. The city of today has changed considerably from the city of the 19th century. Neither is it the city of the future. …
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