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No full textWywiad AION z
Agnieszką Baranowicz
Dyrektorem Niepublicznego Żłobka
i Przedszkola Politechniki Łódzkie
Życie Uczelni : biuletyn informacyjny Politechniki Łódzkiej nr 164 (2023)
No full textUkazuje się od 1984 r.Opis na podst. nr 27 (1993)Od nr 34 (paźdz. 1995) podtyt.: biuletyn informacyjny Politechniki ŁódzkiejOkładka: projekt red., foto: zasoby Działu Promocji
Residential real estate financing and urban form in Latin American medium-sized cities: Comparative study between Concepción (Chile) and Mendoza (Argentina)
No full textThe financialization process, understood as the growing influence of financial actors and financial institutions in the
domestic economy, has left an important trace on the development of the great capitals of Latin America. Indeed, in the last
thirty years Latin America has reached the highest degree of urbanization on the planet and its large megacities are important
attractors of financial capital, whose investment capacity far exceeds that of traditional local actors. Over the last two decades,
financialization has increasingly influenced the real estate market, making housing take on a growing value as a financial asset
rather than as a fixed asset. This new condition has largely marked the physical transformations of these large cities both in
terms of expansion of the urban sprawl and location of new urban developments as well as residential building morphology
and public space. However, the way in which this process affects medium-sized cities in the region has hardly been studied.
This paper makes a comparative analysis of the recent development (2010–2020) of two medium-sized Latin American cities,
Concepción (Chile) and Mendoza (Argentina), observing the way in which it has happened (both in terms of distribution of
urban growth and housing typology) and trying to stablish links with local regulations and the way in which real estate
developers and their investment capacity favour the emergence of differentiated residential types
BDOT10k-seg: A Dataset for Semantic Segmentation
No full textIn this work, we describe BDOT10k-seg, a novel aerial dataset
for semantic and instance segmentation. Our data covers almost the entire
territory of Poland (314,000 km2) and provides precise pixel-level annotations
for 286 classes of topographical objects, including buildings, roads,
rivers, lakes, airports, agricultural areas, and forests. BDOT10-seg consists
of 60,718 images with a resolution of 3 to 75 centimeters per pixel, and more
than 40 million object instances. The average image size is 12,367 px because,
unlike other publicly available datasets, we do not modify the source
orthoimages. The code for generating the BDOT10k-seg dataset is publicly
available
Change in Urban form along streets in Historic cities with Religious cores
No full textThe study objective was to understand the change in urban form along streets in historic cities with religious cores. Two cities – Temple city of India (Thanjavur) and a Cathedral city of Norway (Trondheim) – were studied. In Thanjavur, data collection involved photographs of existing buildings and historic data derived from a questionnaire survey of residents. In Trondheim, data collection involved photographs of existing buildings and historic data derived from archival sources. The findings show the nature of changes along streets, the possible causal change agents, and the differences in the two contexts. In Thanjavur, the religiousness of the core was found to bring about an increase in specific types of buildings. However, the change was less triggered by religious reasons in the case of Trondheim. Though both cities are historic cities with religious cores, the change was found to be driven by different factors. The difference can be attributed to ‘religious faith’ in Thanjavur and the absence of it in the secular conditions of Trondheim. The findings could add to the theory by introducing a socially placed ‘sacred’ phenomenon causing changes in urban form in Temple cities of Asia as opposed to Cathedral cities of Europe
AMUseBot: Towards Making the Most out of a Task-oriented Dialogue System
No full textThis paper presents AMUseBot, a task-oriented dialogue system
designed to assist the user in completing multi-step tasks. Taking into
consideration that the fundamental issues with such systems are poor user
ratings and high rates of uncompleted tasks, the main goal of the project is
to keep the user focused and provide engaging conversations. We approach
these problems by the introduction of dynamic multimodal communication
and graph-based task management
Clustering Dilemmas – A Study of the Request of Homogenicity within Clusters Versus Diversity Between Clusters
No full textAn interplay between the requirements of within-cluster-homogenicity
and between-clusters-diversity is investigated. It is shown that taking the requirements
of homogenicity and diversity makes the clustering an easy task,
but these requirements are rarely matched in the practise
A refugee pattern language – Rpl 9: Design and construction for refugees
No full textThis paper presents chapter 9 of a larger project ‘Refugee Pattern Language’. Employing Pattern Language method,
the research is based on field work, case studies, and literature. We propose nine patterns of design and construction for
refugees in a concise format. They address design approach, fabrication, and building construction along with factors related
to building agencies, construction skills, and building materials. Here, we encourage the use of the principle of participation
at multiple levels in the design, building, and planning process.
Accommodating the needs of these influx migrants is a humanitarian responsibility that gives opportunities for redevelopment
which also benefits vulnerable populations in the time of global refugee crisis. Individuals, professionals, NGOs, and
governments can adopt these patterns to offer pragmatic humanistic solutions for different scenarios and scales of refugeereceiving
sites
Progress in Polish Artificial Intelligence Research 4
No full textPublikacja dofinansowana przez Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki w ramach programu: "Doskonała Nauka II – Wsparcie Konferencji Naukowych"
The Types and Distribution of Urban Image ‘Composite Pattern’ – An Empirical Study based on Qingdao, China
No full textKevin Lynch proposed the concept of the ‘Urban Image’ and its five elements based on the ‘mental picture’. However, the real urban scenes are often rather different from the abstraction of the urban image in people's minds. In the real urban scene, usually, there will be a combination of two or more ‘urban image’ elements, such as the Landmark company with the Node, the Path also act as the Edges which combine the Nodes or the Landmarks to contribute rhythm and decoration. Significantly, the patterns of urban image composition are specific, not random. This paper will discuss the patterns of ‘urban image’ composition, its types and distribution in a certain historical city. Based on the image survey of the ‘European district’ (built by German colonists, 1897–1914) in Qingdao, China, the paper empirically constructs the system of urban image ‘Composite Pattern’ and statistical of certain pattern types with the highest frequency.
Meanwhile, inspired by the ‘picturesque theory’ (Gordon Cullen) which emphasizes a series of viewpoints, continuous images, and the structured ‘mental landscape’, the paper makes an investigation on the connection and switching of the adjacent Composite Patterns, to find out the distribution laws of various ‘Patterns’ in urban space. Revealing the laws of urban image structure, which benefit to get a better understanding of the value elements and landscape organization with the historical cities. Compared with the ‘urban image (Lynch)’ of the mental picture, the actual urban scene is more vivid and has a richer ‘sense of design’, and its related research will also provide a more direct reference for urban design