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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"urban scale"”.
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Urban scale phenomena and boundary layer processes in mountain valleys
The urban climate of the city of Trento, adopted as a representative case study of urban weather and climate phenomena in a mid-sized city lying in a mountain valley, is investigated using different methods and on different spatial scales. First the intensity of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) is …
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Wal Mart: New stratedy in urban scale for American downtowns
… to be more distinctively balancing to proper urban issues and practical designs is now more imperative than ever. Therefore, this thesis work will be new grope of possibilities of that Wal Mart can be futurally constructive being more friendly approached to the town and communities in a …
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A new simplified vector-based model to support solar energy planning at urban scale
… various design phases. Solar energy planning at urban scale requires large-scale solar analysis to support various decision-making contexts, such as making urban solar targets, prioritizing urban zones or buildings for solar integration, and optimizing solar technologies tailored for targeting …
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Urban-scale impacts on the global-scale composition and climate effects of anthropogenic aerosols
… of highly reactive trace species in hypothetical urban areas, which is capable of efficiently simulating the urban concentration, surface deposition, and net mass flux of these species. A polynomial chaos expansion and the probabilistic collocation method have been used for the metamodel, and its …
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Urban-scale material flow analysis in a South African context: a Cape Town feasibility study
Urban-scale Material Flow Analyses (MFAs) in the global south provide unique challenges compared to national MFAs and to urban MFAs in the north. In order to determine the feasibility of undertaking an urban-scale MFA in the global south, this dissertation sets out to undertake an MFA on Cape Town, …
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Understanding localness of built form at the urban scale: investigating 'Maqamiat' in the case of Karachi, Pakistan
… the construction of a number of buildings and urban design projects that conform to the international concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation, and are a response to the desire of politicians to create a global image for the city. Using the Urdu word maqamiat in relation to the built form, …
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Urban-Scale Decomposition of Carbon Peaking Targets in the Yangtze River Delta from a Consumption-Based Responsibility Perspective
Under the background of the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals, the scientifically grounded decomposition of the carbon peaking target to the city level has emerged as a vital issue in China’s climate governance. As one of the regions with the highest economic development and strongest …
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Reconfigure Experience
… intervention, guided by the site, touches on an urban scale by generating a gateway into the city.
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Empirical Estimation of a Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) for the City of Cape Town Freeway Network
… Research shows that congestion levels in urban areas are key factors in determining the effectiveness and productivity of the transport system. Traffic congestion poses a threat to the economy and the environment. Increasing corridors' capacity by increasing the number of lanes does not …
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Washington DC Aquarium
… cultural revitalization. Consideration of the urban scale led to studies of circulation, context and pedestrian orientation and their application to the design of a single building.
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A conceptual and empirical investigation into measuring aspects of urban food security in 12 Southern African cities
The issue of urban food security is a critical global issue, especially in Southern Africa. It is of such a pressing nature the United Nations (UN) has made it a Millennium Development Goal (MDG). Without a focus on urban food security the UN MDGs, regional goals and national goals will not be …
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Physics-based Estimates of Structural Material Quantities for Urban-level Embodied Carbon Assessment in Buildings
… targets. The world population growth and rapid urbanization rate add to the urgency of this challenge. In fact, buildings account for about 40% of all energy and carbon emissions from operations and materials’ production and construction processes. More specifically, buildings’ structural …
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Urban sunspaces : ecology of atria and arcades
… cycles. Public buildings adopted this in larger scale, and with the ending 18th century, atria and arcades merged to a period of architectural highlights of glass covered interiors in steel and glass. Passages, hotels and public buildings of an emerging industrial society in Europe and Northern …
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An ideal theater : the Takarazuka Revue Company in Los Angeles
… to activate the event of theater going. On an urban scale, the theater mediates the points of intersection between diverse communities. The theater thus becomes a gestural proscenium to the city. The spatial experience which results constitutes the making of an architectural icon.
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Directing Space - Spatial Continuity in architecture
… investigates a concept of continuity at various scales. A proposal for an art gallery in downtown Washington DC becomes the vehicle of exploration. The urban scale of this proposal seeks a continuity of relevant existing conditions while also creating opportunities to experience the city as well …
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Secular spiritualism evolved: The market as communal sanctuary
… the viability of this secular spiritualism at an urban scale. This thesis argues that such a spiritualism can be found in our secular world and proposes that the undefined residual spaces left by privatization become the neutral testing ground for a new urban prototype: the communal sanctuary.
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Architecture of Connections
… for connections. It explores this idea in four scales: the urban scale, the immediate context, the scale of the building and the interpersonal scale. Architecturally, it addresses the complexities of an intervention in an urban fabric and embraces the contextual it is an attempt to reanimate the …
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Staging disassembly : incubating post-industrial renewal
Over the past five decades, the American urban industrial landscape has become marginalized as the expanding global economy has sought international markets for manufacturing. At the agency of the user-as-investor, this proposal seeks to re-manufacture the post-industrial site to explore the …
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Retrofitting for resilience
… of these buildings from the ground up, enabling urban scale insights from the study of individual buildings' performance.
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Micro-home ownership in a mega-metropolis
… of the modem metropolis and examined at both the urban scale of the city and at the micro-scale of the individual.
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