CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China
Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
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Medieval mausoleums of Kazakhstan: Genesis, architectural features, major centres
This article details the origin and development of one of the core groups of the Central Asian (Kazakhstani) medieval architecture – i.e. domed mausoleums; also it identifies the original traits of the medieval Kazakhstani mausoleums and their major ...
Eskander Baitenov +2 more
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Acoustic vessels as an expression of medieval music tradition in Serbian sacred architecture [PDF]
Archaeoacoustics is a multidisciplinary field of research focused on the history of the relatedness of the field of sound and architecture. The architectural history of Europe, from Antiquity to the modern period, is abundant in the findings of ...
Đorđević Zorana +2 more
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Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
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Guarding the border: watchtowers of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada. Characterization and vulnerability assessment [PDF]
RUIZ-JARAMILLO, J. y GARCÍA-PULIDO, L.J., 2018. Guarding the border: watchtowers of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada. Characterization and vulnerability assessment. Heritage 2018: 6th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development. Granada:
García-Pulido, Luis José +1 more
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Historical SDI, thematic maps and analysis of a complex network of medieval towers (13th-15th century) in the moorish strip [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLII-4, 2018 ISPRS TC IV Mid-term Symposium “3D Spatial Information Science – The Engine of Change”, 1–5 October 2018, Delft, The NetherlandsThis ...
Ferreira Lopes, Patricia +1 more
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Comparative Approaches of Fast 360-degree Video-Based Survey of Inaccessible Heritage [PDF]
Fast survey documentation of inaccessible environments often forces surveyors to choose between acquisition speed and geometric accuracy of digital databases.
F. Galasso, R. Volzone
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Medieval Sacral Architecture in Banská Štiavnica – Architectural Interpretation
Knowledge about the architectural–historical development of medieval sacral buildings in Banská Štiavnica has gained clearer contours in recent years thanks to many new findings from monument research and published studies that have been processed in the last two decades.
Lýdia Budayová +1 more
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The medieval ‘scientia' of structures: the rules of Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón [PDF]
Medieval builders didn't have a scientific structural theory, however gothic cathedrals were not build without a theory. Gothic masters had a ‘scientia', a body of knowledge which permitted the safe design of their buildings.
Huerta Fernández, Santiago
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