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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"urban projects"”.
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Commercial bank lending practices in the development of urban projects : underwriting criteria in a changing environment
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Developing tomorrow : creating and financing the ideal public realm for mixed-use urban projects in Denver's South Lincoln redevelopment
… quality public space, the heart and soul of our urban civilization. The construction of an inspiring public realm develops a sense of place that people value and are attracted to living in. Pedestrian infrastructure and public spaces have essential roles in maintaining a healthy and vibrant …
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Urban acupuncture as a strategy for São Paulo
… interventions can be catalytic to major urban transformations. The largest urban agglomeration in the southern hemisphere is now approaching twenty-million inhabitants with a major incongruence: while São Paulo sprawls informally onto non-structured lands, the infrastructured downtown has …
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Van ID naar 3D: besluitvormingsprocessen en beslissingsmacht bij stadsontwikkelingsprojecten
… decision-making processes, strategic planning, urban governance networks and power configurations in urban development projects in Flemish cities. Beside thorough literature study and document analysis, we've chosen for qualitative research. The result of this research led to insights usefully …
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Participation in the Smart City: An Ethnographical Study of Citizen Engagement in Dublin
… ethnographic insights into the nature of smart urban projects; secondly, it provides a theory explaining the motivation for participation as well as the benefits gained through engagement. Smart urban projects are celebrated for helping to improve social cohesion and aim make life more effective …
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Urban design theory and practice aimed at sustainability. The Liverpool Study Cases in the United Kingdom planning system
Urban design is the most traditional field of physical planning which focuses more on the physical design of places and deals with fine-tuned design approaches (John Lang, 2005). It is founded upon the social, environmental, political, aesthetic and economical sector, but public realm is also …
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Developing heritage : activist decision-makers and reproduced narratives in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria
… lieux de memoire of twenty-first century urbanity. But, while memory and culture have been well-researched as instrumental facades for profit-driven urban projects (as well as in the marketing of spaces for consumption) the methods through which constructed narratives impact …
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A cross-cultural study of architectural production in Korea and the West: cultural transfer within South Korean architecture and urbanism, 1990-2010
… the context of modern Korean architecture and urbanism from 1990 to 2010 in light of globalising forces. My research is based on the proposition that the emergence of any new architecture in South Korea cannot be simply categorized according to the terms familiar in predominant western …
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The Collective Speculators’ Playbook Subversive Market Forms for Common Wealth
… exposes a dominant state-sponsored speculative urban development model in urban New York - often operating above the designer’s head. This thesis draws the practices, policies, and protocols of the speculative urban development model across two urban projects. It identifies two key actors: the …
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Locally Responsive Public Open Space Design: Special Reference to Beijing, China
… a strong role in creating and reshaping local urban forms in the past few decades in China. This is especially evident in public open spaces in many Chinese cities due to rapid economic development. Recent urban projects in Beijing specifically have shown limited responsiveness to local context …
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The relationship between the Massachusetts' building code and construction cost escalation
… Card from 2015, "... the cost of developing urban projects in the Commonwealth increased by nearly 40 percent more than overall inflation" (Bluestone) since 2011. This suggests there is more at play than simply a high volume of work; and while there is no disputing the cyclic nature of the …
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Lessons from science city projects and their success factors
… before they embark on such major economic and urban projects. This paper shows a framework of success factors that drove the transformation of Boston's Route 128 area from an industrial ruin into a world-class high-tech industrial cluster (or technopole) driven by knowledge-based asset (Chapter …
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From linear spaces to linear places : recycling rail corridors in urban areas
… rights-of-way has occurred primarily in suburban and rural areas. However, a new generation of urban rail corridor conversions appears to be underway. More urban in more places than prior rail-to-trail projects, the next generation of rail corridor conversions reflects a broader and more …
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Self sufficient urban architecture: reducing reliance on traditional sources for basic necessities
… and self-sufficient living, architects and urban planners have discovered numerous examples of such communities located outside urban areas. However, the principles of sustainable living can also be effectively applied within urban environments. The objective of this project is to explore …
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I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal
… Zeckendorf and their twelve-year partnership in urban renewal. William Zeckendorf (1905-1976) was the most ambitious real estate developer in the United States in the 1950s, with an outsize personality and larger-than-life plans. Unlike most developers of the era, Zeckendorf believed that quality …
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Production of levulinic acid in urban biorefineries
… biorefineries in and near the nation's urban centers, where significant volumes of carbohydrate feedstock are already concentrated, collected, and hauled as municipal and commercial wastes and therefore available to commercial users at negative cost. The case evaluated is a prospective …
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"Museu das remoções" potencia de resistencia creativa y efectiva como respuesta sociocultural a Río de Janeiro en mega eventos.
… of a form of city management called 'urban entrepreneurship,' (Harvey, 1996) prompted a steady loss of civil rights in the city. The Evictions Museum is just one manifestation of the fight for the right to the city, and for the right to housing which occurred as a result of this new …
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Space, place, and nationalism: Constituting, transmitting, and contesting national identity in the urban landscape of Zagreb, Croatia from 1850 to 1940
This study analyzes how urban space in Zagreb, Croatia was used to establish and then contest the trajectory of the Croatia national project between 1850 and 1940. To accomplish this, the study focuses on the extent to which the Croatian national project and the urban project of Zagreb were …