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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"urban model"”.
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An Urban Model
The goal of urbanism as a model is not to test the limits of density or push the boundaries of how socially removed or engaged an individual can be, but to bring order to the growing, malleable, and complex interactions of human life. This model is a hypothesis on different urban connections. A …
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Mining Manhattan : a new urban model for recycling electronic waste
… being processed into reusable materials. As urban societies increasingly rely on digital devices, and those devices become obsolete at rapid rates, a new model for managing e-waste is desperately needed. The thesis employs architecture to raise awareness, illuminate deficiencies in the …
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A study of the city: a replication of Hillery's urban model
George A. Hillery's model of the city was created inductively from five case studies representing four different cultures. The model was an extension of his earlier folk-village model which assumed that the traits which were present in the folk-village were exemplary of the phenomenon community. …
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Signature Crossroads
Signature Crossroads, an urban form that grows out of an street intersection, combines both the sense of "transit" and the sense of "destination." Such dual character gives Signature Crossroads a superiority over traditional squares as the identity in contemporary cities. This thesis investigates …
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Integrated transportation and energy activity-based model
… to capture all of the complexity inherent in urban dynamics. With the increasing risks of global warming, policymakers and planners need to make optimal or close-to-optimal decisions on how to use the available resources in order to reduce energy and fuel consumption. This thesis develops the …
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Feasibility study for the implementation of a logistics network for distribution of dry food to low income people
… cost of dry food by 20% by setting up a logistic model to connect end customers with food manufacturers through a central coordination operation. This coordination unit will manage supply and demand using the Internet and a "cross-docking" system. Chile was chosen to evaluate the feasibility of a …
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Mathematical modeling of urban water management strategies
The rapid expansion of many western urban centers has nearly outstripped available stream, flow and groundwater re-sources requiring municipal water departments to initiate exhaustive searches for new water supplies. Among the most feasible alternatives being investigated to date are acquisition …
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Skyward Serenity
This thesis explores the challenges of urban sprawl and land scarcity, focusing on Mumbai, a city constrained by geographical boundaries and marked by high population density. With Mumbai encircled by the sea on three sides, opportunities for horizontal expansion are severely limited, prompting the …
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Diriyah narrated by Its built environment : the story of the first Saudi State (1744-1818)
… this thesis explores, and narrates, the urban development history of Diriyah during the timeframe of the First Saudi State (1744-1818), through using its built environment as a main examination tool. Accordingly, Atturaif historic district in Diriyah, was chosen as an urban model which …
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Inhabiting cycles of maritime obsolescence : redirecting the National Defense Reserve Fleet
… hybrid landscapes work together as a strategic urban model for phasing resilient seaports in highly vulnerable coastal regions. They invert the "hard," land-borne conduits of power and water in favor of multiplied and thus redundant, "soft," distributed, waterborne infrastructure delivering …
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Timurid central Asia and Mughal India : some correlations regarding urban design concepts and the typology of the Muslim house
… with its monumental achievements in Urban Planning and Civic Architecture, beginning with the reign of Tamerlane (1346 - 1405); served as a literal source of inspiration for the urban form of Mughal cities. As an additional corollary to this premise, it puts forward the thesis that …
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Deriving archetype templates for urban building energy models based on measured monthly energy use
Interest in urban energy modeling has grown among planners and policy-makers as more and more municipalities set targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Urban-scale building energy models can help evaluate the efficiency of proposed district designs, consequences of building retrofit …
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The history of Spokane Falls W.T. 1871-1891, an example of a colonial built environment
… under a theoretical and structuralized [urban] model. An interpretation of the physical and geographical history of Spokane Falls's built environment from 1871 to 1891 occurred where the city's layout existed within the gird system of the speculative real estate market where geography was …
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Matching transit and open public spaces : open space oriented transit for successful transit oriented development in Guadalajara
The way we perceive the urban environment affects the choices we make and therefore our behavior. This fact has an important effect when we navigate a city. How urban spaces are laid out will influence our decisions and have repercussions in our travel choices. There is therefore a connection …
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Numerical evaluation of aerodynamic roughness of the built environment and complex terrain
… computing, namely GPUs. Various turbulence models including mixing-length, RANS, and LES models are implemented, and their suitability for ABL simulations assessed. Then the effect of surface roughness alone on wind profiles is assessed using CFD. Cases with various levels of complexity are …
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OPEs, What Do We Do? Modeling Emissions, Fate, and Mitigation of Organophosphate Esters in Urban Systems
… a novel workflow including a novel Bayesian model, I generated final adjusted values (FAVs) for 12 physicochemical properties of 74 compounds across nine compound classes, including OPEs, filling an important data gap. This work also found that different in silico estimation methods used to …
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GIS-based urban land use characterization and population modeling with subpixel information measured from remote sensing data
… of Vegetation-Impervious Surface-Soil (V-I-S) model in the urban land use characterization and population modeling, focusing on New Orleans area. Previous research on the V-I-S model used in urban land use classification emphasized on the accuracy improvement while ignoring the discussion of …
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Writing Barcelona: reflections on city planning and urban experience, 1854-1888
… the articulation and the reception of the new urban model that transformed the city of Barcelona between 1854 and 1888. Through an interdisciplinary approach that includes the analysis of literature, visual culture, and specific proposals of urban planning, I examine how the conception and the …
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Essays on Spatial Labor Markets and Public Policies
… employment opportunities. In a quantitative urban model with frictional labor markets, the structure of the city interacts with labor markets because commuting is costly and information about job offers decays with distance. The decentralized equilibrium might feature too much or too little …
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Identifying controls on and potential solutions to storm water flooding in urban area- a case study of the UA campus
… drivers and mechanisms controlling flooding in urban environments. The MIKE URBAN model - a 2D hydrodynamic framework is used to simulate the 6th July, 2018 flood event on the UA campus. The results show that ~7.7% area of the campus was flooded with maximum water depth of 0.78 m and volume …
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