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urban Waters Carlos E. M. TuCCi Urban development u urban structure rban development accelerated in the second half of the 20th century with the concentration of the population in reduced space. this triggered greater competition for the same natural resources (land and water) and led to destruction of natural biodiversity. the environment formed by natural space and by the population (socio-economic and urban) is a living and dynamic being that generates a set of interconnected effects, which if not controlled, can lead the city to chaos. the objective of sustainable urban development is to improve the quality of life of the population as well as environmental conservation. It is also essentially integrating to the degree to which good quality of life is only possible in a well conserved environment that can meets the needs of the population supporting the harmony of man and nature. the principal components of urban management are: • land use planning and management: by definition this involves the development of a Master Plan to determine how the city should be occupied and the corrections that need to be made in relation to the past and present; • road, water, energy, communication and transportation infrastructure: planning and management of this infrastructure can be implanted by public or private agencies, but which should be regulated by a municipality; • Socio-environmental management: the management of the urban environment is conducted by municipal, state

BIG PROFILE BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global…

Thinking about urban viaduct areas and their use as housing in Brazilian cities Alfio Conti and Margarete Maria Araujo Silva Architect and Urbanist, Master in Architecture Escola de Arquitetura da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – EAUFMG, Professor at Department of Architecture and Urbanism of Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais – DAU/PUCMinas Marco Antonio Souza Borges Netto, Lawyer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais – PUCMinas, consulting. Margarete…

Effect of Environment on Happiness HAVE you so far overlooked the effect environment has on your happiness, attaching more importance to more circumstantial factors like income, education, and relationships? Well, as a matter of fact, though seeming comparatively more passive, the environment has a drastic effect on one's happiness. In fact it is one's immediate environment that implicitly defines their mood at every instant of their life, affects their image of who they are and…

UNIVERSAL DESIGN : RETHINKING BARRIERS TO QUALITY OF LIFE TOVE HELEN GRANDE DYB & LAURA VE BERGEN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE JANUARY 2010 INDEX Accessibility refers to the “ability to access” WHAT DOES IT MEAN ; “UNIVERSAL DESIGN”? THE ACCESSIBILITY TRIANGLE .....5 .....6 .....3 .....4 WHAT TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN PLANNING AND DESIGNING ACCESSIBILITY IN TRAVEL .....7 ACCESSIBILITY IN THE CITY AND IN THE STREETSCAPE USE OF COLORS USE OF LIGHT .....11 .....12 .....8 …

"Centre the school in the neighbourhood so that a child's walk to school was only about one-quarter of a mile and no more than one half mile and could be achieved without crossing a major arterial street. Size the neighbourhood to sufficiently support a school, between 5,000 to 9,000 residents, approximately 160 acres at a density of ten units per acre. Implement a wider use of the school facilities for neighbourhood meetings and activities, constructing a large play area around the…

Urban Development: The State of the Sustainable Art an international benchmark of sustainable urban development Bibliographical Data Authors: Chris Roorda (DRIFT), Marc Buiter (Urgenda), Jan Rotmans (DRIFT), Marit Bentvelzen (DRIFT), Nico Tillie (TU Delft), Rachel Keeton (INTI) Title: Urban Development: the State of the Sustainable Art, an international benchmark of sustainable urban development. Commissioned by: the municipality of Almere, the City Manifest 2.01,…

School and the Production of Society ANDRÉ PETITAT, Department of Sociology, University of Québec-Montreal ABSTRACT Most sociological theories present school as a source and a channel of social reproduction: of a dominant group, of essential values, of bureaucracy, etc. This paper, primarily based on a study of the origins of colleges and the bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century comes to an opposite conclusion: it shows school as an agent or an active medium in the emergence of…

Space is the machine Bill Hillier  Since The social logic of space was published in 1984, Bill Hillier and his colleagues at University College London have been conducting research on how space features in the form and functioning of buildings and cities. A key outcome is the concept of ‘spatial configuration’ — meaning relations which take account of other relations in a complex. New techniques have been developed and applied to a wide range of architectural and urban…

DESCRIPTION MCC SMART (Micro Compact Car) was established in April 1994 by the Mercedes and Swatch association. The Swatch main idea was to create an urban, simple, environment-friendly and inexpensive car for the new century. The name SMART is a combination of Swatch, Mercedes and art. The partnership between these two firms involves their respective knowledge about their specialities. Mercedes for the engineering and Swatch for the plastic know-how. Today the locations of the factories…