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From the Landform to the Living Wall: Introducing 3D digitisation processes into landscape design education
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Urban informality
No full textStreets lined up with hawkers selling everything from safety pins to fruits to suitcases with a fascinating backdrop of shops; Dharavi is always like being on a treadmill. It's always busy, chaotic and dynamic all at the same time. A recent survey of Dharavi by National Slum Development Federation counted 1,044 manufacturing units of
all kinds. Almost every house in Dharavi can be described as a tool house. Dharavi has literally grown from the marshes. It is the land of economic heroes. Dharavi is very strategically located: a triangular land in the heart of the city of Mumbai. It is
encompassed by railway lines on two sides and by Mahim creek and its mangroves on the third. Dharavi was initially in the outskirts of Mumbai but as the city started growing towards the south; Dharavi was found to be in the center of the city. It also shares its
location with the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) - a counter magnet of the Central Business Department in South Mumbai and the international airport, 15 minutes away from Dharavi. Dharavi has a come a long way from the small fishing village of 18th century to
the land of High returns. Dharavi went through the storm of several redevelopment plans which were based on the high value of the land on which it is located. While several cities all around the globe
have gone through these storms, some were severely affected and some survived. The question is will the importance and values of such neighborhoods ever be understood? Against Tabula Rasa approach, most urban planners today have recognized the informal neighborhoods as perfect examples of a user generated city. How can this urban
informality inform the flexible urban structures which can absorb a continuous spatial reformation without losing its specificity? The neighborhood of Dharavi is a great example of incremental developments but at the same time it cannot be romanticized and the need for a better quality of life cannot be ignored. In this context, this creative project will attempt to elaborate the research that was carried out during the site visit to document the
city of Dharavi and explore the potentials of change by design through adaptive interventions that will address the issue of the need for better infrastructure in the complex neighborhood of Dharavi without ignoring the highly sophisticated social fabric that has been evolved over the decades.Thesis (M.L.A.)Department of Landscape ArchitectureMumbai -- Dharavi : site analysis -- Case studies -- Problems & opportunities
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
Indiana Dune's Heron Rookery expansion : educational center
No full textThis project identified the characteristics of wetland habitats, the characteristics of an outdoor learning environment, the restoration strategies for rivers, and the needs of a heron rookery to design an expansion on the existing Heron Rookery in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (IDNLP).
The project is located in the Calumet Area, a highly diverse ecological area that has also been important to human growth (Indiana Dunes). Because this area is close to Chicago and near Lake Michigan it falls in a major trade route, so is a key place for manufacturing industries to locate (Schoon). This in turn has destroyed the ecology through deforestation, wetland drainage and pollution of the water and land (Schoon). The area needs to be preserved and restored because of the diverse ecology.
Herons, a type of waterfowl, have been recovering over the past 20 years and "play an integral role as recyclers, predators, and prey in a variety of ecosystems" (Audubon). Because over one hundred heron nests already exist in the Heron Rookery (Indiana Dunes), expanding the Heron Rookery will enhance their habitat with out disturbing their nest. Since the location of the project will be adjacent and upstream on the Little Calumet River of the existing Heron Rookery the site is ideal in helping improve the water quality of the Little Calumet River and the Heron Rookery.
There was a wide variety of methods use in this project. The inventory and analysis for the final design is done through historical maps of the area, river, soils, vegetation, trails in the Heron Rookery, roads, buildings, and land uses on the site currently. In addition
the GIS data was used to locate issues with the Little Calumet River.
Because education is also important, information on how to incorporate education was gathered through site observation and through looking through the Pinhook Bog teacher program packet provided by IDNLP. Case studies of similar restorations, such as the Provo River Restoration Project and Grand Kankakee Marsh, have been compared based on criteria of climate, size, and habitats to further understand the site.
At the end this project created a plan that will enhance the habitat for various birds, while establishing a trail that will allow people to visit, view and learn about herons and natural habitats. It will take advantage of the Chicago Wilderness Green Infrastructure Vision (CWGIV) to allow for this project to affect a larger region. This site is a educational facility that teaches the public about habitats and birds.Thesis (B.?)Honors Colleg
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
Book of abstracts : stop and think : ECLAS conference : 13-15/09/2021 SLU / Uppsala / Sweden Online
Get PDFDispelling 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
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