Urban design and people

Part 1 of ebook "Building sustainability in East Asia: Policy, design, and people" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Rapid urbanisation; Chapter 3 - Urban environmental challenges; Chapter 4 - Quest for solutions; Chapter 5 - Policy framework; Chapter 6 - Policy implementation; Chapter 7 - Sustainability transformation;...

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Part 1 book "Electric and hybrid buses for urban transport - Energy efficiency strategies" includes content: Energetic efficiency of vehicles equipped with hybrid and electric drive systems; development and implementation of the hybrid and electric systems architecture through methods of numerical analysis; study case - Comparative analysis regarding the buses used for urban public transportation for people within cluj napoca municipality; virtual infrastructure design of the routes used in computer simulations.

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This study was designed to analyze the influence of agricultural land acquisition on people's livelihoods in the Urbanization context in Vietnam. The findings show that agricultural land acquisition due to urbanization opens up new job opportunities for households at the same time, households also have opportunities to expand and change their livelihood strategies through new investment activities.

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World is changing day by day in every aspect of life. A Smart City is an answer to different challenges such as socio-economic development and quality of life. In the way intelligent technology has brought enormous changes in urban development by altering the relation of production, consumption and distribution, it is now bringing enormous changes to the education sector. By providing technological opportunities for various ways of communication, the relationship between instructors and students has improved.

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Part of the San Jose project in which Stefflre Associates, Inc., a market research firm, designed and implemented attitude surveys for the RAND Urban Policy Analysis Group. RAND then analyzed the data. The objectives were to understand and characterize how people in Santa Clara County perceive different living environments and to answer questions about the impact of rapid growth on citizens' attit......

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Urban design is a diffuse and abstract term. It means different things to different people. For those not directly involved in its practice or aware of its effects on their daily lives, it may not mean much, if anything at all. I first heard the term in architecture school, but I didn’t really think much about what it might mean until my schoolmate Jonathan Barnett started using it to describe his aspiration to put together with some of his colleagues a design capability in the New York City government. That opportunity had come up after the election of John Lindsay as mayor in 1966.

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My interest in urban design began in the mid 1950s with Professor McCaughan’s history of planning lectures given in the then Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool. At those lectures ‘Mac’ made it quite clear that he was a follower of Camillo Sitte, a Viennese architect whose main work dated from the last decade of the nineteenth century.

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There is a broad consensus about the optimal design features of buildings for people with dementia but the external environment has been neglected until recently. The research on which this book is based was a brave and rare attempt to fill this gap. This makes this book unique and especially important. People with dementia, and others with cognitive impairment, are constantly unnecessarily disabled by incomprehensible environments. We should do all we can to help them remain independent by giving due thought and attention to them.

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Housing of course means homes. To most people this is their most treasured possession. It is not just bricks and mortar or a financial investment; it is a vital part of their life. ‘You mould the building and the building moulds you’ as Winston Churchill is said to have put it. Home is crucial to everybody’s daily well-being. As such it is normally treated with pride, and its character and contents are an extension of their per- sonality. The creation of a home is not therefore just an intellectual design exercise detached from the occupant. It should be their design. It is their castle.

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Water is an essential and basic human need for urban, industrial and agricultural use. While there exists an abundance of fresh water resources is available, its uneven distribution around the globe creates challenges for the sustainable use of this resource. According to World Health Organization in 2011, over 1 billion people lack safe drinking water, approximately 3 billion people lack adequate sanitation, and over 2 million people die annually from water-related diseases.

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In recent years, earthquake damage caused by the massive earthquake that happened in many countries. For example, more than 250,000 people have been killed by the earthquake Haiti January 2010. In addition, more than 15,000 people have been killed by the Japanese Tohoku The earthquake and Japan Tohoku coast was devastated by a large tidal wave March 2011.

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