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Students' Conceptions of Scale Regarding Groundwater [PDF]

, 2007
This study involved surveying three groups of students regarding their ideas about the structure, scale, and percieved importance of groundwater. The survey results show that many participants selected sizes of groundwater structures that mirrored ...
Daniel Dickerson, Genny Hay, Meta Van Sickle, Timothy Callahan   +3 more
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The future of skyscrapers

Проект Байкал
High-rise construction has always been at the forefront of construction technology and therefore accompanied by a high degree of risk. Neither the technical, economic nor aesthetic effects of super high-rise buildings can be guaranteed.
Хайфа Бани Исмаил, Джихад Аль-Амери , Мохаммад Асиф, Эхаб Мохаммад Абу Ханнуд   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Innovative Integration and Optimization of RE and Smart Energy Management Systems in Skyscrapers: Enhancing Sustainability and Energy Self-Sufficiency in Vertical Cities [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Skyscrapers have become a vital part of modern urban development, offering efficient space utilization in increasingly dense cities. However, their huge input of energy as well as environmental impact necessitate integration of RE with intelligent energy
Yan Bingzhuo
doaj   +1 more source

Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract How do older people navigate African cities? This paper addresses that question through vernacular accounts of everyday mobility in Accra and Sekondi‐Takoradi, Ghana. By engaging with geographies of later life, it challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality, and contributes to reimagining how ...
James Esson, Ebenezer F. Amankwaa, Katherine V. Gough, Peter Mensah, Katie McQuaid, Ross Wignall   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“It Will Get Crowded, It Will Get Dull!”: Preventive Sensations of Density in Zurich's Future‐Making

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT In Zurich, Switzerland's largest and wealthiest city, future planning around densification has been intensely debated in recent years, spurring referendums and direct democratic votes, and permeating the public discourse through governmental communication, political propaganda, and heightened media coverage.
Sabrina Stallone
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Design and Energy Efficiency in Supertall and Megatall Buildings: Challenges of Multi-Criteria Certification Implementation

Energies
Rapid urbanization, rising energy consumption, and the environmental pressures of the 21st century have led the construction sector to focus on sustainable design solutions to protect the natural environment and combat climate change.
Anna Piętocha, Eugeniusz Koda
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African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley, Sabelo J. Ndlovu‐Gatsheni, Wangui Kimari, Franklin Obeng‐Odoom, Sylvia Tamale, Sybille Bauriedl, Sylvia Bawa, Inken Carstensen‐Egwuom, Grace Adeniyi‐Ogunyankin, Yousuf Al‐Bulushi, Stefan Ouma   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Residential Skyscrapers by Architect Stanko Fabris; Contribution to the Urban Morphology and Typology of Collective Housing in Podgorica

Prostor, 2019
So far scientifically unexplored, residential skyscrapers by architect Stanko Fabris in Podgorica, represent a part of his realisations from the early 1960s.
Rifat Alihodžić, Slavica Stamatović Vučković, Aleksandar Ašanin   +2 more
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Gender and Space: Homeworking at the Dining Room Table

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 669-680, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the construction of professional workspaces within the private sphere of the home and the effect of gender on the spatial construction of such spaces. It focuses on how teleworking from home affects men's and women's ability to make use of spatial resources, including layout, dedicated space, and location, in the ...
Makiko Fuwa
wiley   +1 more source