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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"urban models"”.
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Aggregating building fragments generated from geo-referenced imagery into urban models
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Firms in Integrated Urban Models: Agglomeration Economies and the Dynamics of Employment Size Decisions
Jobs are key determinants of urban phenomena ranging from daily trip patterns to urban structure. Despite their importance, the representation of jobs and firms in integrated urban models is limited. Existing approaches are exceedingly static, often lack theoretical underpinnings, and rarely …
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Painting with data : from a computational history of urban models to an alternative urban computing
… serendipity beyond habit. Nevertheless, urban planning's relationship to policy-making has pushed their methods closer to those of science, establishing a need for empirical legitimization for decision-making. Historically, different fields have been brought into planning, importing their …
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Hybridizing old downtown Suwon City: how new urban fabric may save the past
… approaches are required for creating alternative urban models which emphasize sustainability and landscape productivity. The Old Downtown of Suwon City, South Korea, which is encompassed by the Hwaseong Fortress and designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, is currently experiencing …
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Sustainable urban forms for Chinese typical new towns
The phenomena of exploding world urban population and sharply decreasing global arable lands are illustrated in contemporary China in a dramatically amplified form. Construction of many new towns in rural areas has been accelerated due to vigorous economic growth and immigration of people to urban …
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A BIM - GIS Integrated Information Model Using Semantic Web and RDF Graph Databases
In recent years, 3D virtual indoor and outdoor urban modelling has become an essential geospatial information framework for civil and engineering applications such as emergency response, evacuation planning, and facility management. Building multi-sourced and multi-scale 3D urban models are in high …
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Parameterizing land use planning : deploying quantitative analysis methods in the practice of city planning
… need to consider the multiple components of the urban system which are intertwined and connected in a complex network, and cannot be studied independently. While cities were extensively studied as complex adaptive systems over the last 50 years, showing universal patterns across countries, …
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Refining Behavioural Theories and Rules in Agent-Based Models to Enhance Dynamic Simulation of Urban Change
With the continuing growth of the urban population, many cities in the world are faced with challenges such as traffic congestion and misallocation of housing and infrastructure. Understanding and predicting the spatial pattern of urban change is useful for planners to deliver evidence-based and …
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Conversations with tradition: faith-based community development through the Eden Network in Cape Town
Community development is a tool in urban planning that, when used in contexts in the global South, can be used to perpetuate forms of "worlding" (Roy, 2011). "Worlding" tracks the way that urban models travel in asymmetrical ways from the global North to the global South. Christian Faith-Based …
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Smart Cities: Inverse Design of 3D Urban Procedural Models with Traffic and Weather Simulation
Urbanization, the demographic transition from rural to urban, has changed how we envision and share the world. From just one-fourth of the population living in cities one hundred years ago, now more than half of the population does, and this ratio is expected to grow in the near future. Creating …
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Exploring structural regularities for robust 3D reconstruction of urban scenes
… the problem of inferring 3D structures of urban scenes from 2D images has recently drawn a lot of interest in the computer vision community. Despite the extremely rich literature in multiple view geometry and structure from motion (SFM), reconstructing large-scale high-quality 3D urban …
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Location, location, location choice models
… and production. The growing demand for limited urban space is increasing urban complexity and magnifying both positive and negative externalities of urban agglomeration: increasing productivity, innovation, and social interaction, but also exacerbating living costs, pollution, inequality, …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
… differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their connection to changing imaginaries of the world that were shaped by the experience of war, and that have received little attention in historical literature. The dominant narratives of postwar urban history …
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Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems: Visions towards Sustainable Entrepreneurial Futures for Informal Settlements and Recycling Communities
In the face of the growing challenge of urban waste, especially within rapidly expanding informal settlements projected to house over 45% of the global population by 2050 (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2022), innovative solutions are imperative. The thesis proposes a …
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Are There Alternatives to Greenbelts? Evidence from a New Land-use Transport Interaction Model for Greater Beijing
Urban greenbelts are considered a key instrument for shaping sustainable urban growth and protecting the environment in a large number of cities in the world. In most cities, there is a widely shared belief that urban greenbelts are beneficial to the natural environment. By contrast, there is …
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La recepción de los discursos higienistas: urbanismo, género y clase en Bilbao (XIX-XX)
… and tensions. The overcrowding of the growing urban proletariat and the expansion of the industrial suburbs endangered the civilising ideals of the Bilbao bourgeoisie, eager to emulate international urban models. Concern for hygiene and public health was linked to demographic growth, population …
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Sustainable metropolitan growth strategies : exploring the role of the built environment
… smart-growth strategies aim to improve urban life and promote sustainability by altering the built environment with such mechanisms as transit-oriented development, mixed-use planning, urban-growth boundary, etc. My focus in this study is to understand the role that the built environment …