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Wilmington gray to blue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Wilmington is situated on the divide of two major watersheds, the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. All surface waters in Wilmington drain to one of these two water bodies and are divided into two groups: tidal creeks and Cape Fear ...
Prete, Phil
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Bridging Assessment and Planning Intervention: An Eye-Tracking-Enabled Decision Support Framework for Enhancing Streetscape Visual Esthetic Quality

open access: yesLand
Although urban streetscape visual esthetic quality (VAQ) assessment has progressed markedly, its findings are rarely operationalized in urban planning policy-making. The resulting discontinuity in the assessment–policy linkage is a critical impediment to
Ya-Nan Fang   +5 more
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Reformulating Space Syntax: The Automatic Definition and Generation of Axial Lines and Axial Maps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Space syntax is a technique for measuring the relative accessibility of different locations in a spatial system which has been loosely partitioned into convex spaces.These spaces are approximated by straight lines, called axial lines, and the topological
Batty, M, Rana, S
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The Quality of The Spatial Space of The Physical Expansion of The City at The Ambawang Corridor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The main objective of the development of the region is to improve the welfare of the people of the region. There are various sectors that need to be developed to meet the goal of regional development is through the development of physical infrastructure ...
Hasriyanti, Nunik, Ikayanti, Palupi
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An Evaluation of Different Landscape Design Scenarios to Improve Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Shenzhen

open access: yesLand
The pivotal role of urban greening in landscape design for mitigating climate change and enhancing the thermal environment is widely known. However, numerous evaluations of outdoor thermal comfort are seldom applied within the realm of landscape design ...
Ying Zheng, Qiyao Han, Greg Keeffe
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability and the City: New Kensington CDC's Sustainable 19125 Initiative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC), an organization long dedicated to revitalizing the East Kensington, Fishtown, and Port Richmond neighborhoods of Philadelphia, launched an urban sustainability initiative in 2009 called ...
Eric Hangen
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Understanding Urban Residents’ Walking Exercise Preferences: An Empirical Study Using Street View Images and Trajectory Data

open access: yesBuildings
Walking exercise is a prevalent physical activity in urban areas, with streetscapes playing a significant role in shaping preferences. Understanding this influence is essential for creating urban environments conducive to walking exercise and improving ...
Jiawei Zhu   +4 more
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Measuring the Economic and Cultural Values of Historic Heritage Places [PDF]

open access: yes
This research project on the valuation of cultural heritage is developing a methodology for a quantitative valuation study of the use and non-use values of historic heritage places.
Deodhar, Vinita   +5 more
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The scale of sense : spatial extent and multimodal urban design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper is derived from the work of the UK AHRC/EPSRC 'Designing for the 21st Century' research project Multimodal Representation of Urban Space. This research group seeks to establish a new form of notation for urban design which pays attention to ...
Lucas, Raymond   +2 more
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