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The Theoretical Landscape of Service Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This conference paper discusses the theoretical landscape of service design. It will illustrate how service design is situated in a discourse on design research and outline the theoretical background of this multidisciplinary approach from a constructive and generative research perspective.
Piia Rytilahti   +2 more
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Study on the Spatiotemporal Patterns and Influencing Factors of Maize Planting in Hunan Province

open access: yesAgronomy
Maize, one of the world’s three major food crops, plays a vital role in global food security. Analyzing the spatiotemporal patterns of maize cultivation in Hunan Province and their influencing factors contributes to enhancing planting quality and ...
Qinhao Xiao   +5 more
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Spatiotemporal Effects of Urban Park Features on Walking and Running: Evidence from a Long-Term Observational Study in Shanghai

open access: yesLand
As urban parks become vital settings for public health, understanding how spatial features influence physical activity is essential. This study addresses a research gap by examining how park attributes affect walking and running across different space ...
Junqi Chen   +5 more
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Examining the role of concrete 3D printing for housing construction on Indigenous Reserves in Canada [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Engineering and Built Environment
Purpose – This research explores the role of concrete 3D printing (C3DP) in the development of culturally appropriate housing in Indigenous Reserves in Canada through the design, building and evaluation of the Star Lodge project located in the Siksika ...
Mauricio Soto Rubio   +3 more
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Tangible and Intangible Landscape Elements in the Adaptive Reuse of Historic Railway Corridors: Landscape Perception and Preference Along the Taichung Green Corridor 1908, Taiwan

open access: yesLand
Cities worldwide are converting decommissioned railway corridors into linear parks, yet designers lack guidance on which heritage elements to retain and how to combine them with new interventions.
Kuo-Wei Hsu, Jen-Chih Chao, Hao-Wen Ko
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The Effects of Youth Entrepreneurship Community Engagement on Sustainable Design: A Case Study of Guangfu Village Redevelopment

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2018
Public participation plays a decisive role in the way to achieve sustainability deign for local redevelopment. Guangfu Village, the first garden city model town in Taiwan is facing redevelopment issue when executing sustainable design with human ...
Hsu Kuo-Wei, Chao Chieh-Yu
doaj   +1 more source

Designer landscapes for sustainable biofuels

open access: yesTrends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009
Oil palm is one of the most extensively cultivated biodiesel feedstocks worldwide, and expansion of its cultivation poses a significant threat to ecosystems, biodiversity and potentially the global climate. We evaluate the prospects of land sparing and wildlife-friendly farming, two contrasting approaches for reducing the impacts of oil palm ...
Koh, L.P., Levang, P., Ghazoul, J.
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Determination of Soil Endangerment by Wind Erosion with Consideration of Legislative Changes in Acceptable Soil Loss

open access: yesEkológia (Bratislava), 2015
Value tightening of acceptable soil loss by wind erosion in amendment to the Act No. 220/2004 on Protection and Use of Agricultural Land in the Slovak Republic from 1st of April 2013 is necessary to reconsider wind erosion intensity in agricultural ...
Streďanský Jozef   +3 more
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Patches, Corridors, Matrix, Webs and Clouds. Expanding Richard TT Forman’s Land Mosaic Approach in the Medina of Tunis

open access: yesRi-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio
This study proposes a framework for analyzing the medina of Tunis, based on Richard T.T. Forman's theory of land mosaics. Departing from traditional preservationist methods, it views the Medina as a multifaceted landscape, integrating both tangible and ...
Gareth Doherty, Areti Kotsoni
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Designing the skeleton of/for robust landscapes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
If the connection between the garden and the city disappears from the debate of academics and practitioners, can the methodology, the processes, the techniques and the attitudes ofthe gardener in pruning the rose (and, by extension,the attitudes of the landscape architect andof the farmer) be of help in designing the contemporary city?
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