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Monitoring of High‐Rise Buildings
Journal of Surveying Engineering, 1988Tall buildings have mushroomed in Boston as they have elsewhere. Modern technology has made high‐rise construction efficient and architects more daring. The surveying engineer faces many adversities during the translation process from blueprint to construction site.
Gunther Greulich, Clifford E. Rober
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High-rise hopes [architecture]
Engineering & Technology, 2011This paper presents Plantagon's spherical-greenhouse. Architects at Australia-based firm CK Designworks have designed the world's first vertical street, a 35-storey high-rise to be built in Melbourne, in which every sixth floor will have gardens planted with trees growing up to 10m tall. According to project architect Robert Caulfield, 'Crystal Gardens'
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2019
This chapter firstly looks back in retrospect at the brief history and precedents of high-rise urbanism and then reviews the contemporary development of high-rise urbanism in Asian megacities by a comparison in economic, social, and environmental aspects of three Asian megacities, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
Feng Yang, Liang Chen
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This chapter firstly looks back in retrospect at the brief history and precedents of high-rise urbanism and then reviews the contemporary development of high-rise urbanism in Asian megacities by a comparison in economic, social, and environmental aspects of three Asian megacities, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.
Feng Yang, Liang Chen
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A High and Rising Rate of Interest
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1957seems to me much too severe and based in part on a misinterpretation or misunderstanding of the Ricardian doctrines. Knight as a full adherent of the post-I870 revolution in value and distribution theory, or departure from the Ricardian-classical to the utility and marginalist analysis, is I think half blind to the insights, of enduring value ...
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Pattern in the rise of High Technology
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1997AbstractFirst of all, evolutionary convergence works. Both earlier primates and non-primates have long made tools to a pattern. But one presumed master tool, a protolanguage, is not tangible. It is likely to have been present for two million years during which brain volume steadily grew among our predecessors.
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High-Rise Development In India
1988Ever since the 14 story Life Insurance Corporation Building was constructed in Madras in 1956, a fairly large number of high-rise buildings have been constructed in all the major cities of India including Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, and Madras. The height of these tall buildings ranges from 8 to 30 stories.
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Urban Studies, 2007
The appearance in inner Melbourne in the past decade of high-rise residential buildings for middle- and upper-income households has been contrasted with previous periods when such buildings were for public housing tenants. Drawing on the narratives of high-rise developers and planners about these new buildings, the paper demonstrates an inconsistency ...
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The appearance in inner Melbourne in the past decade of high-rise residential buildings for middle- and upper-income households has been contrasted with previous periods when such buildings were for public housing tenants. Drawing on the narratives of high-rise developers and planners about these new buildings, the paper demonstrates an inconsistency ...
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Innovations in High-Rise Construction
1988Innovation in construction is achieved by challenge. I’ve therefore structured this paper to describe Olympia and York’s approach to innovation and flexibility in high-rise construction, then move on to a general assessment and conclude with what I think will happen in the future. But first I would like to give a brief picture of Olympia & York and how
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Treatment of muscle‐invasive and advanced bladder cancer in 2020
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2020Vaibhav G Patel+2 more
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