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Visual Perception Evaluation Of Corten Steel: ŞImal Shopping Mall
Architecture, Civil Engineering, EnvironmentCorten steel, or the corrosion of steel, is a result of exposure to the atmosphere. Corten steel is a recyclable, energy efficient, durable, and aesthetic material in terms of sustainability.
İSMAİLOĞLU Semiha +1 more
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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Non-linear fe modelling of seismic pounding and damped-mitigating interconnection between a r/c tower and a masonry church [PDF]
, 2013 The finite element analysis of pounding represents one of the most critical issues for the assessment of the seismic performance of R/C structures built at poor distance from adjacent buildings.
Pratesi, Fabio +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this essay I reveal contested common infrastructures in the interplay between vanishing public infrastructures in Venice and lack of care by governmental actors in a city with a shrinking number of inhabitants. I examine care and commodified public infrastructures in heritage cities facing mass tourism and climate change effects by zooming ...
Cornelia Dlabaja
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ArchitectureIn recent decades, architectural design has increasingly shifted its focus from insulated, sealed, and highly technological building envelopes to more responsive façade strategies tailored to local climatic and socio-cultural conditions.
Stamatina Kousidi
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Influence of loudspeaker directivity on the measurement uncertainty [PDF]
, 2011 One of the most significant aspects of a building’s acoustic behavior is the airborne sound insulation of the room façades, since this determines the protection of its inhabitants against environmental noise.
Díaz Sanchidrián, César +3 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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