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The last century was marked by the proliferation of modernism and many of its varieties have left lasting marks on architecture as well as contemporary cities, however, this legacy and its present forms produce ambiguous affects on architectural practices as well as on city-building.
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Louis Wirth developed the concept of urbanism as a way of life. Urbanism has its drawbacks, since urban life is seen as making human relationships brief, segmented and transitory.
J. Scott Carter
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Designing a model to evaluate housing privacy
Assessing housing privacy includes individuals’ perception and the relationships created in the living spaces and in their immediate neighborhood.
Priscila Ferreira de Macedo+2 more
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An Empirical Examination of Traditional Neighborhood Development [PDF]
This study analyzes the impact of the new urbanism on single-family home prices. Specifically, we explore the price differential that homebuyers pay for houses in new urbanist developments relative to houses in conventional suburban developments.
Eppli, Mark, Tu, Charles C
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Water infrastructure and social housing in Bogotá: an intersection between modern water management and social housing production [PDF]
En la actualidad Bogotá afronta la presión de construir viviendas sociales en ecosistemas frágiles, áreas rurales o zonas propensas a las inundaciones, y al mismo tiempo proteger estas áreas para asegurar la capacidad de resiliencia del medio ambiente.
Rojas Bernal, Claudia Lucia
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How to Enhance the Future of Urban Environments Through Smart Sustainable Urban Infrastructures?
According to the United Nations (UN), about 70% of the world’s population projected to live in urban areas by 2050. Therefore, cities are experiencing an enormous urban transition the world has ever seen, accounting for 80% of global carbon dioxide ...
Mazin Al-Saffar+16 more
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While the application of tracking technologies has developed substantially in social sciences and transportation sciences in the last decade, it has failed to make a significant impression in the scientific field of urbanism and spatial planning.
Frank van der Hoeven, Jeroen van Schaick
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Suggestive principles of new urbanism in the inner-city planning [PDF]
New Urbanism has been described as the most influential movement in architecture and planning in the United States in the modernism movement. Some argue that new urbanism is the answer to suburban sprawl and the way urban centers were decaying and the ...
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Open-Source Urbanism: Creating, Multiplying and Managing Urban Commons
Within contemporary architecture and urbanism there is marked interest in urban commons. This paper explores the creation of temporary urban commons, or, more specifically, what can be called ‘open-source urbanism’.
Karin Bradley
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HALF A LOAF. ARE NEW URBAN “HYBRIDS” A MARKETABLE OPTION? [PDF]
New Urban developments offer a physical form that differs considerably from the dominant pattern of sub urbanism in North America. While theorists argue that New Urbanist principles must be adopted in their entirety, property developers often find that ...
Gary SANDS
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