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The study of urban form in the Netherlands
No full textThe study of urban form in the Netherlands has been heavily influenced by the Modern Movement and characterized by strong disciplinary specialization. On the one hand there is the distinction between art and engineering and on the other the search for instrumental universal rationality. This helps to explain the increasing interest, initially within academe, in the first English and German translations of some outstanding works of Italian researchers, who were at the time already acting as leaders in new perspectives in the fields of urban form and architecture. In keeping with the Dutch practical attitude, these investigations contributed to urban developments of the post-industrial era, beginning at the end of the 1970s. Today much of the study of urban form entails investigation of how global trends affect local systems and how local systems can be improved by analysing best practices. In that respect the Netherlands has been able to establish a leading role in contemporary architecture that is widely recognized within EuropeArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Groundscrapers: Vitalizing the Tradition of the Urban Low Rise, Mixed Hybrid Building
No full textThe fact that hybrid buildings can be interpreted as extremely condensed urban blocks, increasing the city’s density and contributing to its public realm, forms one of the key interests of this research. According to its European interpretation, the “ground scraper” is not only public because of the character of its plinth facing the street, but also due to its interior space, partly accessible to public. As such it potentially extends the city’s public domain, horizontally and vertically, into the building’s interior and links the public domain inside and outside. Basically it acts as a city within the city.ArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
The Ordinary in the approach to architecture and building of John Habraken
No full textLa “teoria dei sistemi” di John Habraken origina dall’attenta osservazione di un fenomeno ricorrente di appropriazione spontanea del patrimonio edilizio, realizzato nel rispetto dei principi del Movimento Moderno, da parte degli abitanti, al fine di adeguarlo a mutate esigenze e valori. In tal modo l’autore si pone nei confronti dell’esistente con spirito critico analogo a quello con cui Saverio Muratori, negli stessi anni, andava analizzando l’edilizia dei centri storici di Venezia e Roma. Per queste ragioni, e per le ricadute indotte dalle sue ricerche sulla cultura del progetto nei decenni a venire, Habraken innova il concetto di ordinariness nel processo edilizio industrializzato
Rossi, Ungers and Koolhaas: Three positions on the relation between Architecture and Planning
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Outdoor recreation potential in Europe
No full textData from: Komossa F, van der Zanden EH, Schulp CJE, Verburg PH. 2018. Mapping landscape potential for outdoor recreation using different archetypical recreation user groups in the European Union. Ecological Indicators 85:105-116
These maps of landscapes’ outdoor recreation potential throughout the EU are based on the different landscape preferences of five archetypical outdoor recreation user groups. They provide a synthesis of available information and data on the differential preferences and patterns for outdoor recreation in the EU
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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