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The pronounced global crises caused by the effects of climate change is causing an essential need to rethink and redefine the basic assumptions about our relationship with nature. As more and more of the world's population lives in urban areas, the responsibility for the relationship to nature...
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Corinna Hilbig analysiert in diesem Buch die Erfolgsfaktoren französischer PPP-Fonds. Sie entwickelt ein für den deutschen Markt anwendbares Beteiligungsmodell unter Berücksichtigung der Anforderungen des Kapitalanlagegesetzbuches. Die Autorin zeigt anhand von Praxisbeispielen, wie ein...
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Whether we are embracing or countering technology, we are unable to avoid its grip on our world. Architecture is one of …. Concrete examples from architectural design and theory of the Japanese 'New Wave' architecture, and architects such as Kurokawa … Kisho, as well as contemporary Dutch architecture - MVRDV and Rem Koolhaas' OMA, will be discussed as examples for their …
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Architecture and urban planning have always been deeply involved in the design and building of defense facilities … architect Vitruvius was himself a military engineer before engaging with architecture. Defense walls, towers and other … modern urban and public-architecture practices and design choices as well as urban development policies. The goal of this …
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This paper presents findings from a recent study on roadway design preferences among pedestrians, drivers, bicyclists, and public transit users along a major urban corridor in the East San Francisco Bay Area.  Sponsored by the California DOT, the research focused on exploring design...
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This paper reports on research conducted by the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center and sponsored by the California Department of Transportation (“Caltransâ€) to establish performance measures for pedestrian and bicycle safety and mobility along urban arterials. Although...
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Growing interest in sustainable transportation systems and livable communities has created a need for more complete measures of pedestrian travel. Yet, many performance measures do not account for short pedestrian movements, such as walking between stores in a shopping district, walking from a...
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The San Francisco pedestrian volume modeling process refined the methodology used to develop previous intersection-based models and incorporated variables that were tailored to estimate walking activity in the local urban context. The methodology included two main steps. First, manual and...
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