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Influences of Built Environment at Residential and Work Locations on Commuting Distance: Evidence from Wuhan, China

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022
Ensuring that commuting distance remains within a certain range has important effect of residents’ quality of life. Although many studies have investigated the relationship between the built environment and residents’ commuting distance, limited evidence
Xuexin Yan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

City of King City: South First Street Corridor Masterplan, Fall 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
City of King’s South First Street Corridor Master Plan is a draft document prepared by Cal Poly’s Community Design Lab as a contribution to the city’s efforts to initiate a revitalization process for the street and the areas immediately adjacent to it ...
CRP 341 Urban Design Studio
core   +1 more source

Design of Double‐Sided Optical Coatings for Space Cooling Through Vertical Windows

open access: yesAdvanced Photonics Research, EarlyView.
Dual‐sided radiative cooling glass (DSRCG) utilizes the optical properties of epsilon‐near‐zero materials and ITO to exhibit directional emission toward the outdoor space, facilitating the heat dissipation of the glass, while exhibiting low emission toward the enclosure.
Hyunkyu Kwak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limits of space syntax for urban design: Axiality, scale and sinuosity

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, 2018
Space syntax analysis of the city as a movement economy has made major contributions to our understanding of the spatial structure of cities, particularly the importance of a mapping of network integration in relation to density, functional mix and ...
Elek Pafka, K. Dovey, G. Aschwanden
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optical Wireless Communications with Metasurfaces: Current Status and Potential for Intelligent Communications

open access: yesAdvanced Photonics Research, EarlyView.
Optical wireless communications (OWCs) provide a promising alternative to spectrum‐congested microwave wireless communications. Recently, the use of metasurfaces with sub‐wavelength features for dynamic beam steering, beam manipulation, and spatial or optical‐angular‐momentum mode generation, conversion, and multiplexing in OWCs is proposed and ...
Ke Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting coordinated spatial governance of mega-cities in China via spatial organization of metropolitan areas

open access: yesFrontiers of Urban and Rural Planning
Super large-sized cities and very large-sized cities (“mega-cities” for short) have become the backbone of China's socio-economic development, but they also face outstanding challenges of "urban diseases" due to their high concentration. In comparison to
Yajie Zhou   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Designing Urban Squares [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The effects of fast changing economic and social conditions have increasingly become significant on how people use and shape their environments. The urban population has been dramatically increasing worldwide and consequently physical structure of the cities changes constantly, mostly in negative ways.
openaire   +3 more sources

Towards an Informal Turn in the Built Environment Education: Informality and Urban Design Pedagogy

open access: yesSustainability, 2019
Informal urbanism, ranging from informal settlements to trading and transport, has become integral, but not limited, to the ways in which cities of the global South work.
H. Kamalipour, Nastaran Peimani
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban Design of Bristol Waterfront, Lower Thames Street [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Collaboration with the Town of Bristol in the fall of 2013 when students in ARCH 415, Advanced Design Studio – Urban, under the guidance of Professor Ulker Copur, studied the waterfront area along the west side of Thames Street, from State Street south ...
Fall 2013 ARCH 415 Advanced Design Studio – Urban Class, Roger Willaims University   +1 more
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Poka: A Necro‐Robot Beetle with a Measured Payload Ratio of 6847%

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Here, Poka, a necro‐robot beetle with the ability to carry more than 68 times its own weight, is introduced, making it also a walking robot with the highest payload ratio measured to date. This paper is concerned with the design, manufacture and validation of ‘Poka', a novel millimetre‐scale necro‐robot aimed at bridging the performance gap between ...
Yordan Tsvetkov, Parvez Alam
wiley   +1 more source

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