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The Journal of Public Space, 2016 It could be argued that architecture has an inherent social responsibility to enrich the urban and spatial environments for the city’s occupants. However, how we define quality, and how ‘places’ can be designed to be fair and equitable, catering for individuals on a humanistic and psychological level, is often not clearly addressed.
Cox, Christopher, Guaralda, Mirko
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Hacking Cities: A New Methodology for Urbanism at the Nexus of Architecture and Cybersecurity [PDF]
Journal of PlanningExploring the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and cybersecurity, this paper introduces architects and urban planners as "urban/archi-hackers," proposing a novel approach to urban design. Prompted by the question, "What if an architect and/or urban planner viewed a city as a program and acted like a hacker?", it delves into speculative ...
Arda, Alp, Kural, Kenan
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Black Mobility Matters: An Exploratory Study of Uber, Hacking, and the Commons in Baltimore [PDF]
Architecture_MPS, 2016 Questions about the city – its boundaries, fabric, size, scale, culture, economy, historical and political contributions – populate the expansive horizon of architectural theory.
Rio, Malcolm, Rio Malcolm
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik +8 more
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The Building That Teaches: Exploring Augmented Reality Affordances in Academic Incubators
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT Efforts to enhance the experience of interior environments have led to experimentation with augmented reality (AR) technology to encourage users to participate in the built space using their mobile devices. To investigate the role of AR technologies in interior design experiences, we highlight the interdisciplinary design of a mobile AR ...
Leah Scolere, Laura Malinin
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A Hacking Atlas: Holistic Hacking in the Urban Theater [PDF]
, 2018 AbstractThis essay is intended to help further the understanding of contemporary social change and social activism, which in turn should assist people developing civic intelligence within both local and global communities. Civic intelligence is a social phenomenon that describes how well collectivities address their shared problems efficiently and ...
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HACKING THE CITY A SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT MODE OF FIELD WORK
European Journal of Geography, 2012 Guerilla Gardening, Reclaim the street, Adbusting and others are characteristic forms of temporary appropriation of public spaces. Those have become a global trend.
Romy HOFMANN, Martina MEHREN
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Sex in the City: Breeding Behavior of Urban Peregrine Falcons in the Midwestern US.
PLoS ONE, 2016 Peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) were extirpated from most of the continental United States by widespread use of the pesticide DDT in the 1960s.
Isabel C Caballero +3 more
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Platform Thinking as a Catalyst for Circular Innovation in Low‐ and Medium‐Tech Industries
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Growing pressures to replace linear with circular models challenge organisations to innovate continuously and to absorb new knowledge. While platform thinking has been examined as an enabler of innovation in high‐tech industries, its relevance in low‐ and medium‐tech industries, like construction, remains underexplored.
Julia Köhler +3 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research analyses the carbon footprint of the NGO Madre Coraje, using an integrated methodology that combines the calculator provided by REAS (Red de Economía Alternativa y Solidaria) Navarra and the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). It quantifies emissions across the three scopes of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, evaluating both direct and ...
José Fernandez‐Serrano +2 more
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