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Environmental Heritage and the Ruins of the Future [PDF]
, 2019 We now have good reason to worry that many coastal cities will be flooded by the end of the century. How should we confront this possibility (or inevitability)? What attitudes should we adopt to impending inundation of such magnitude?
Matthes, Erich Hatala
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A Scalable, Durable, Fire‐Safe All‐Day Passive Radiative Cooling Coating for Sustainable Buildings
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study reports a scalable, durable coating that combines a fire‑retardant copolymer adhesive, hollow glass microspheres, and boron oxide to achieve passive radiative cooling with over 94% solar reflectance and >95% mid‑infrared emissivity. The coating maintains performance after UV and rain exposure and exhibits UL‑94 V‑0 fire resistance, enabling ...
Zhewen Ma +8 more
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Living with Urban Everyday Technologies
ESPES, 2020 New and complex technologies are exceedingly present and in widespread use in contemporary cities globally. The urban lifeworld is saturated with various applications of information and computing technologies, but also more rudimentary forms of ...
Sanna Lehtinen
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Analysis of the Uniqueness and Similarity of City Landscapes Based on Deep Style Learning
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 The city landscape is largely related to the design concept and aesthetics of planners. Influenced by globalization, planners and architects have borrowed from available designs, resulting in the “one city with a thousand faces” phenomenon.
Ling Zhao +6 more
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Journal of Science Research and ReviewsThis study examines the role of eco-aesthetics in promoting sustainable urban spaces through the integration of public art within Nigerian cities.
Benjamin Evi Idisi +2 more
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Garden as Symbol: Nature/City [PDF]
, 2013 My approach .to environmental aesthetics here begins with reflections on previous encounters with the subject, focusing initially on aesthetics of the city.
Carter, Curtis
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Computer Analysis of Architecture Using Automatic Image Understanding
, 2019 In the past few years, computer vision and pattern recognition systems have been becoming increasingly more powerful, expanding the range of automatic tasks enabled by machine vision.
Li, Yuan, Shamir, Lior, Wei, Fan
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Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque: ethics, aesthetics and garden design in Belgium (1913-1940) [PDF]
, 2012 Le Nouveau Jardin Pittoresque (The New Picturesque Garden) association was founded in 1913 to ‘renew and popularize garden art’ in Belgium. Originally, the emancipation of the lower classes was put forward as an important task; the association acted as a
Notteboom, Bruno
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Review of the Challenges and Prospects in Agrivoltaics
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This articles reviews the recent prospects of agri‐photovoltaics (agri‐PV) across continents. The existing standards and pilot projects to standardize new codes and regulations are discussed. The state‐of‐the‐art agri‐PV scheme's benefits and lackings are presented. Community acceptance and policy barriers are also discussed where prospective solutions
Tanvir M. Mahim +2 more
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Claiming the wall: How memorial plaques reshape urban landscapes in Russia
Studia Rossica PosnaniensiaThis article explores the significance of memorial plaques in Russian cities as sites of history, memory and aesthetics that create a new sensorium of the urban sphere.
Kiun Hwang
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