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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"vacant lot"”.
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The Revitalization of Economically Depressed Cities: Engaging Youth in Urban Agriculture and Vacant Lot Beautification
… ring of suburban areas continues to prosper. Vacant houses and lots, few shops and restaurants, and poverty-stricken residents are predominant features in major cities. But what can be done to improve life in these economically depressed areas? Focusing on youth is crucial; urban-based civic …
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MONITORING STORMWATER INFILTRATION IN A VACANT LOT COMPARING TIME-LAPSE ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION AND ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY
Vacant lots in cities and surrounding urban areas can potentially be used for stormwater management because they are pervious. However, the extent to which vacant lots provide pervious cover to increase infiltration and reduce stormflow is poorly understood. The goal of this study was to develop …
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The Determinants of Land Values in Accra, Ghana
… the factors that determine land values (i.e., vacant-lot prices). The secondary objective is to demonstrate empirically the coherent response of the 'intensity of land use' to land price variation.
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Identifying Pathways to Disease Using Data Mining: Understanding the Combined Individual- and Neighborhood-Level Health Indicators of Diabetes Mellitus and Asthma among High-Risk Philadelphians
… and neighborhood characteristics (N = 450) and vacant lot data (N = 676) was obtained from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. RapidMiner data science software was utilized to perform decision tree analyses, illustrating the levels of influence and patterns between individual and …
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An Ideal Model for Nonprofit Community-Based Agriculture: Growing Food Security in Low-Income Communities
… the power of eminent domain over tax delinquent vacant lot owners. Conclusion: A model for nonprofit CBA should included the following eight categories: nonprofit legal requirements, volunteer integration and management, marketing, program development, funding, effective collaboration, obstacles …
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A matter of context
… district for the design of new building on a vacant lot. The design is based on the dominant features of the area's existing architecture. · The proposed building is a mixed—use facility that offers commercial and residential spaces. The site of the project is in downtown Roanoke, a city in …
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Binghamton's missing teeth: a study of city-owned vacant lots in Binghamton, New York
<p>Vacant land prevails in shrinking cities that have experienced urban outmigration and economic decline. Low-income neighborhoods and blight lead to conditions where vacant lots exist, consequently producing disamenities for the residents that live near them. Considered magnets of crime and …
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Branch Street Ryokan : relaxation through reactivating human senses
… The site's existing condition is a 6000sq ft-vacant-lot. Although it is just one block-in from the very active and busy intersection of Charles and Beacon Street, the site offers quietness and tranquility. Given that I sensed the stark contrast between the very busy streets and the solitude of …
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Building against vacancy : space, shelter, and support for LGBTQ homeless youth on double vacant lots in NYC
… a building is designed on a New York City-owned vacant lot in Harlem to serve homeless LGBTQ youth. The City of New York maintains the condition of vacancy scattered throughout the five boroughs where, The Department of Housing Preservation and Development owns over 1,300 empty lots. While these …
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The Third Teacher: Architecture as enabler of Active Learning
… from daily life - it could occur in a park, a vacant lot, or in the most unexpected of spaces – fostering diverse modes of learning and greater creative possibilities. A key concept in active learning, which can extend to architecture, is wilderness education, where students are taken outside …
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The Sponge House -Living with Rain-
… sustainability. The project targets an actual vacant lot at Eckington in the Northeast of Washington, D.C. The first phase of design consists of a survey of tree species and characteristics, followed by a building layout that allows for more preservation. The second phase examines the details …
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Drawing outside the lines : participatory design in unincorporated communities
… shot and killed by a Sonoma County Sheriff in a vacant lot along Moorland Avenue. The incident spurred community protests and organizing for change, and led to my involvement with the neighborhood. My work with the Santa Rosa teenagers revealed the importance of design in participatory processes. …
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Using Geophysics and Terrestrial LiDAR to Assess Stormwater Parameters in Vacant Lots in Philadelphia
… LiDAR scan of the Berks St. site, a grassy vacant lot located just east of Temple’s campus was used to generate a high-resolution digital elevation model. This elevation model was used to calculate the depression storage parameter, partition subcatchments in the SWMM model, and calculate a …
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A multiscalar, interdisciplinary study of the social and ecological dynamics of urban agriculture in Chicago, IL
… second phase of the project, which focused on on-lot and vacant lot home food gardens. The contributions of these gardens to urban systems in the Global North have been overlooked and understudied, even though their production area may, in the aggregate, far exceed that of other forms of urban …
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LABORARTORY BRNO
Galerie umění, designu a architektury se zaměřením na vystavování prostorových objektů, soch a architektonických modelů. Výstavní prostory jsou navrženy jako veřejný prostor, který vrcholí ve 4. nadzemním podlaží terasou se sochami a kavárnou. Vstupné je dobrovolné. Na ekonomické podpoře galerie se …