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The Loose Space: New Methodology for Thriving Urban City
Get PDFThis paper introduces the concept of “Loose Space” and what it means to be present in an urban city, differentiating it from a regular public landmark space. It is generally based on research done from the book Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life. Then the focus shifts to a more specific aspect of loose space based on methodologies of Kevin Lynch and goes into more depth of urban usage. The paper addresses Hudson River Park waterfront port as case and project study that has applied loose space methodology as its concept design located in New York City. The main emphasis would be on the temporary use of a site, and how it may affect the space on the long or short term. It covers a more elaborate ideal such as loose spaces for the possibilities to revision rundown and limited locations known as Non places.
There is an understanding of how temporary users have found niches in these areas to develop their own pursuits, whether they were musicians, artists, or even vendors, they have managed to make suitable conditions for them out of these sites. Case studies of similar locations, where community members have transformed an abandoned factory building to a venue for restaurants, art schools, and theatrical/ rehearsal rooms, or simply worked with available material and groundwork and turned into community garden supporting the project. It is even more interesting to test how some of these temporary installations could add a more effective futuristic plan for the site and how it may encourage more opportunities to the planning and management of better built cities of tomorrow
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Smart City Governance
Get PDFSmart cities are the new relevant entities in urban planning concept that are economically, socially, ecologically, politically relevant and, of course, culturally relevant as well. A strong urban infrastructure, service management layout aims to create a digital blueprint which is a very backbone of the smart cities. AI short for Artificial intelligence has been under development since 1950´s with the availability of rapid information, and communication data collection. AI is said to be the biggest disruptor of all times; Thus, AI market has grown substantially over the last decade and it´s expected to grow 20% annually over the next few years (Liu, 2020). AI may even evoke many different opinions and science fiction images in us. Some may perceive AI as a threat, and some may fear that artificial intelligence will take their jobs in the future. Threat images may have been painted in people’s minds because not enough is simply known about AI, as well as the benefits that mankind can achieve with the solution to many health, economic, and security problems in future smart cities. The variety of integration of different innovations that serve humankind in smart cities provides another level of support for its users while boosting the socio-economic development of any city into a competitive one. The smart cities of tomorrow work as a collected layers of information matrix with complex capacity of innovations controlled by main information, and communication technology known as (ICT)´s. To offer high-quality services system, smart cities aim to create sustainable, cost-efficient, and safe environments with the help of AI to augment shortages in a growing city. In this paper we will discuss AI´s role in the improvement of service system for high quality living standard and social perspective of cities that we are seeing today. This paper´s objective is to highlight how AI will impact urban planning in governmental aspect, and over all planning profession? How can AI be benefited to ensure equitable outcome for service management in smart cities? This paper explains the processes of planning, maintaining, and operating in urban infrastructure level in smart cities. Namely, first, the distinction of service system that are being provided based on performance of urban infrastructure systems. Secondly, the emerging role of the information and communication technologies known as ICT´s that has become known as digital blueprint for smart cities. Lastly, the important steps in managerial and governments consideration which are necessary to unleash the potential ability of AI in smart cities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Sustainable Architecture: A Solution for Scandinavian Housing Crisis – The Case of Snabba Hus Västberga Stockholm, Sweden
Get PDFSustainable constructed housing” also known as assembled houses” or” LEGO houses” has recently gained attention in Scandinavian government planning offices, sparking interest from a variety of scientific fields and providing lucrative investment opportunities for major Scandinavian construction firms. This appeal can be attributed to a shared desire to employ sustainability to address the housing crisis in Scandinavian nations, notably among the younger generation in Sweden. This publication presents economic progress and revisions to the house loan program for first-time homebuyers while highlighting the improvement measures done by Sweden’s ministry of housing. One of the Scandinavian nations, Sweden, has seen a surge in its housing crisis, and it appears to have found the solution. In this paper addressing the socioeconomic updates on Swedish housing laws, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of the notion of eco-friendly constructed homes. Since the 1980s till the present, Scandinavian countries have undoubtedly seen rapid economic growth (Fellman, 2008). The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of Snabba Hus, a building in Västberga, in Stockholm, Sweden, discussing its design elements in detail. By creating easily assembled housing units that are resource- and environment-friendly, the project was built successfully while providing young people with affordable eco-friendly homes. To help the reader understand, this paper provides a sustainable, easily assembled building system and its components, in addition how this system is explained, comprehended, put into reality, and implemented using the data that has been gathered based on the case study to draw attention to the discussion over whether the housing crisis is a social or physical problem and whether a sustainable, time-saving assembled housing unit is the solution to the problem of young housing shortages, and refugees, as well as in case of natural disasters such as earthquakes? Determining complex issues from the perspective of sustainable design may be the total of all life on earth and the ultimate solution to the housing crisis facing the next generation
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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