last 20 years the city of Bilbao has transformed its riverbanks, pursuing urban, environmental and economic improvement. The recovery of these old industrial...
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an urban context. Urban agriculture is distinguished from peri-urban agriculture, which takes place in rural areas at the edge of suburbs. Urban agriculture...
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Scalable Urban Traffic Control (SURTRAC) is an adaptive traffic control system developed by researchers at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University...
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The Line, Saudi Arabia (section 2024 scaling back)
claims of scaling back. He said in an interview during World Economic Forum special meeting in Riyadh that "For NEOM, the projects, the intended scale is continuing...
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agree Likert scaling is a bipolar scaling method, measuring either positive or negative response to a statement. Sometimes an even-point scale is used, where...
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Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process...
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Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often...
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Silverfish (redirect from Urban silverfish)
inhabit moist areas, requiring a relative humidity between 75% and 95%. In urban areas, they can be found in attics, basements, bathtubs, sinks, kitchens...
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Urban reforestation is the practice of planting trees, typically on a large scale, in urban environments. It may also include urban horticulture and urban...
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designed to fit into its urban setting, with the buildings holding the street line to frame the sidewalks and continue the urban scale. Target, one of the...
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structures designed as large-scale air purifiers to reduce air pollution particles (smog). This approach to the problem of urban air pollution involves air...
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Sponge city (category Hydrology and urban planning)
home use if needed. It is a form of a sustainable drainage system on an urban scale and beyond. Sponge city policies are a set of nature-based solutions...
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Power law (redirect from Scaling law)
attribute of power laws is their scale invariance. Given a relation f ( x ) = a x − k {\displaystyle f(x)=ax^{-k}} , scaling the argument x {\displaystyle...
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Neil Brenner (category American urban planners)
reterritorialisation: the re-scaling of urban governance in the European Union." Urban Studies 36 (3), pp. 431–451 (1999) Brenner, N. "The limits to scale? Methodological...
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The Bortle dark-sky scale (usually referred to as simply the Bortle scale) is a nine-level numeric scale that measures the night sky's brightness of a...
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Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city...
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acres). Under the tent, an area larger than 10 football stadiums, is an urban-scale park, shopping and entertainment venue with squares and cobbled streets...
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as urban planning, a profession focusing on the design and management of urban areas, and urban sociology, an academic field which studies urban life...
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Urban informatics refers to the study of people creating, applying and using information and communication technology and data in the context of cities...
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Rooftopping (category Urban exploration)
help of an assistant/accomplice crew from a distance. The practice of scaling skyscrapers often results in security crackdowns and arrests. Many people...
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Urban warfare is warfare in urban areas such as towns and cities. Urban combat differs from combat in the open at both operational and the tactical levels...
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In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, and are typically measured by the...
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Megalopolis (category Urban studies and planning terminology)
has become highly influential as it introduced a new, larger scale thinking about urban patterns and growth. The term comes from the Greek word megalo-polis...
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The Nottingham Built-up Area (BUA), Nottingham Urban Area, or Greater Nottingham is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics as built-up...
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1914) was a British hydraulic engineer who pioneered the development of urban-scale hydraulic power distribution systems. Ellington was managing director...
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Sustainable urbanism Urban density Urban forest Urban heat island Urban green space Urban planning Urban vitality Urbanism Walkability "What is Urban Design...
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Urban planning in the Soviet Bloc countries during the Cold War era was dictated by ideological, political, social as well as economic motives. Unlike...
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Urban Hymns is the third studio album by English rock band the Verve, released on 29 September 1997 on Hut Records. The group had broken up while promoting...
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which extends over 3.000 square meters, which is intended to create an urban-scale internal public square that could welcome the citizens of Astana throughout...
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New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing...
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