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nD-PointCloud Data Management: Continuous Levels, Adaptive Histograms, and Diverse Query Geometries
Get PDFIn the Geomatics domain, a point cloud refers to a data set that records the coordinates and other attributes of a huge number of points. Conceptually, each of the attributes can be regarded as a dimension to represent a specific type of information, such as time and Level of Importance (LoI). Drastically increasing collection of high dimensional point clouds raises essential demand for smart and highly efficient data management solutions. However, effective tools are missing. File-based solutions require substantial development of data structures and algorithms. Also, with such solutions, enormous effort has to be made to integrate different data types, formats and libraries. By contrast, state-of-the-art DataBase Management Systems (DBMSs) avoid these issues, because they are initially devised for generic use of data. However, DBMSs still present limitations on efficiently indexing non-uniformly distributed points, supporting continuous LoI, and operating high dimensional data. These problems motivate the PhD research which focuses on developing a new DBMS solution. It is aimed at efficiently managing and querying massive nD point clouds to support different types of applications. 
Urban Scenes of a Port City: Exploring Beautiful İzmir through Narratives of Cosmopolitan Practices
Get PDFThis dissertation is an invitation to the reader to explore Güzel İzmir / Beautiful İzmir in Turkey. Through three different semi-fictional narratives, it aims to draw attention to specific and singular spaces as they were recorded and remembered through old postcards, black and white photographs, stories, and written travelogues in the past centuries and decades. Thus, it wants to discuss the specificity of an eastern Mediterranean port city by addressing it on eye-level through the experiences of a wanderer. By acknowledging the important role of narratives in building an image of the city, this doctoral research proposes that developing a particular narrative writing method may help to re-establish emotional connections between present-day inhabitants of port cities and their environments. It offers an alternative way of writing and an unconventional reading of the urban and architectural history of İzmir to revive socio-spatial practices by writing narratives of Beautiful İzmir
Trump’s Aesthetic, Spatial and Architectural Dramalities
Get PDFThis article hypothesises that while drama is primarily a television genre, its operation also appears in the way Trump mediates his political activities. By observing some of the media objects and events staged by Trump, such as his escalator descents from Trump Tower, the popularisation of Trump’s Border Wall, the attempt to institutionalise the executive order entitled ‘Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again’, and the transgression of national symbolic spaces embodied by the 4 July 2019 show at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, it will be a matter of questioning the architectural politics conducted by Trump. Then to see in what way the Trumpian dramatisation participates in a populist architectural strategy
From Epiphylogenesis to General Organology
Get PDFEpiphylogenesis is a neologism coined under Stiegler’s anthropotechnical theorisation of the co-evolution of brains and tools. In line with feminist and decolonial theorists like Claire Colebrook and Kathryn Yusoff, it foregrounds that there has never been such a thing as ‘the human’. There are only differentiation processes that historically make humans who they are, and do so in different ways. As such, it has gained some currency in a stream of neo-materialist theories that have revisited anthropogenesis, or the quasi-causality of becoming human, that operates by way of progressively differentiating environments and technics. In addition to primary memory as the genetic information expressed in DNA and secondary memory acquired epigenetically through a complex nervous system, there is also tertiary memory, which Stiegler named ‘epiphylogenetic’. It is the accumulation and retention of historical epigenetic differentiations within the spatio-temporal organisation of material environments. Specifically, the formation of organisational technics includes writing, art, clothing, tools, and machines, but also architecture and urban planning. This outsourcing of memory from the organic changes the conditions for further phylogenetic becomings, given that evolutions continue to be extrinsically organised (‘ex-organised’) by associated technicised milieus
Modern industrialization around the castle town Ogaki: The process to acquire the resilient urban infrastructure
Get PDFThis study focuses on Ogaki as a typical example of a local city in Japan, reveals the process of modernizing the urban management method. In this process, urban structure was renovated with adding new infrastructures on the composition of the previous period. It shows that building of the infrastructure system for modern industry in Ogaki City had been carried out with the collaboration not only among several vertical administrative systems, but between the ex-samurai class and merchants. Ogaki City began to change rapidly after the 1920s, when a comprehensive regional water infrastructure system beyond the scale of the city was implemented. City planning was institutionalized in the middle of this foundation construction process and supported the realization of the concept shared among merchants. In the stage when the Street Network (1930) and the Canal Project (1937) were decided as the city planning, the cooperative relationship between flood control, energy supply, and water and land transportation had been completed. The concept of industrial urbanization was shared even in a state where there was no manifestation of the master plan, and the city planning was institutionalized in the middle of this foundation construction process and supported the realization of this concept
From Soviet Pattern to Chinese Practice: A Historical and Empirical Review of Wuhan 1954 Master Plan with GIS and Spatial Syntax
Get PDFBecause of post-war reconstruction, urban planning became the most important affair since the P.R.China founded. During the "First Five-Year Plan", “The Urban Planning of Eight Key New Industrial Cities” laying the foundation of China\u27s modern urban planning, showed the process from drawing on Soviet planning experience to the theory of Chinese urban planning. Wuhan was one of them. The 1954 Master Plan as the first planning clarified the characteristics of a typical long-term plan, with the Soviet pattern’s far-reaching impact on it. This study takes the Wuhan 1954 Master Plan as the main research object, using the existing research results and historical documents introduced a series of activities around it, considering the relationship between the Soviet pattern and the Wuhan planning in the early days. The planning data in different periods are transformed into the database to analyze the space in GIS, shows the actual impact of the Soviet pattern under the implementation of the plan for 65 years, and examine its significance and value. The results can reflect the following influence of Wuhan City Master Plan in 1954. This study uses GIS to analyze historical data, and establish a verification relationship between planning and reality
Transductive Architecture: What an Organology Produces - The Case of Le Corbusier
Get PDFThis paper proposes a transductive architecture informed by Stiegler’s organology, and shows how such an organology exists already within the work of Le Corbusier. I show how his early work developed from a more conventional formal ontology, exemplified by his Artist’s Studio project of 1910, firstly towards a more playful compositional strategy in the Dom-ino house and the mass concrete houses of 1915, and then onto a fully organological approach where the relations between elements – existing and new buildings, inhabitants and environments – are primary (in transductive manner), and the terms of those relations (us, the building) come, as it were, afterwards. Citing Vers une architecture and analysing Villa Savoye as a tertiary protention that responds to the tertiary retentions of baroque and neo-classical Paris, I show how our ontology of architecture can profoundly change not only how we talk about it, but how we engage and become it
Re-Imagining a \u27We\u27 Beyond the Gathering of Reductions: Propositions for the Three Ecologies
No full textIn this article Lila Athanasiadou and Goda Klumbytė engage in a conversation with Antoinette Rouvroy to revisit Guattari’s "Three Ecologies" and discuss their dynamics in and for the digital age. While a lot of the discourses on algorithms and digital future invoke catastrophic imaginaries of totalizing control, this conversation works with a propositional format, teasing out affirmative politics by pointing to spaces of potentiality within the environmental, the social and the mental realm. Starting from the environmental ecology and thinking of data as a waste, Rouvroy discusses planetary exhaustion as the result of the depletion of natural resources, forced labour practices and the assumption that data hold the answers to the problems posed by global capital. Proposing a space for material experimentation, she speculates on the potential of emerging subjectivities that remain irreducible to data flows. Within social ecology, Rouvroy advocates for the urgency to center digital policy as the space in which the new forms of institutions emerge in order to reorient the power of computation towards the commons. Lastly, within the mental ecology, Rouvroy reconceptualizes the legal subject as a performance that operates within the proliferation of asignifying data signs, reimagining a “we” beyond the gathering of reductions.
 
The Formation Process and Changes in Patients’ Housing in Nagashima-Aiseien, the First National Sanatorium in Japan
Get PDFHansen’s disease sanatoria were constructed worldwide from the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. In Japan, 13 national sanatoria still exist. Although these facilities are still regarded as Hansen’s disease sanatoria, their function has shifted from being a treatment facility to being a nursing facility for elderly people without a family or hometown. Hansen\u27s disease is a chronic infection characterized by a wide range of symptoms depending on the progress of the disease. People with mild symptoms can live their daily lives, while other patients need help due to blindness or paralysis of the hands and feet. Additionally, the age of onset varies from children to adults. Through these facilities, people could live most of their daily lives without having to rely on the world outside of the sanatorium. A sanatorium was like a village where patients of different ages and with various symptoms lived together. This study examined the process of transition from the "villages" for isolated patients to the final abode of the elderly in terms of the formation process of patient housing.  
Urban planning and politics: Contradictions, continuities and ruptures during the 1960s in Brazil
Get PDFThis paper aims to reflect on the relationship between urban planning and politics in Brazil from the 1930s through to the beginning of the 1970s. During this period, it is possible to observe a number of processes in the field of urban planning: a gradual, complementary link established between the field of knowledge and professional practice; an expansion of the area covered by studies, analyzes and proposals; and a link between plans, proposals and State actions.
A number of different institutions were organized with the aim of elaborating, discussing and executing plans, and were central not only to the process of building and legitimizing different aspects of exercising the professions of the urbanist and the urban planner, but also for the diffusion of a new conception of plans and urban instruments.
The period, with its political and economic determinations, was not homogeneous, and also presented significant differences, including periods with authoritarian and democratic governments, thereby rendering a strong impact on the political and intellectual environment, focusing on political structures and on political and civil rights.
We therefore propose to address the slow institutional construction of formulating urban policy, the contradictions between a progress project and a new social order, and finally the ideological crisis of urban planning in the 1970s and the signs of its transformation