PEDESTRAIN OVERPASSES IN THE COMPLEX TRANSFORMATION OF DEVASTED CITY TERRITORIES

The preservation of the historical, urban planning and architectural heritage of historical cities requires a special approach to the environment modernization. The modern period is characterized by the search for new safe waste management algorithms. It often leads to the construction of large-scale discordant objects. This process puts forward new requirements for the preservation of the visual protection zones of cultural heritage objects. The article is devoted to a promising strategy for optimizing of devastated territories. It includes the creation of overpass pedestrian links, which can be an additional source of landscaping, as well as open up new opportunities for the transit of engineering networks. The article analyzes the possibility of using such architectural and spatial solutions to modernize the waste management infrastructure of urban devastated.

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Early Accusations of Well Poisoning against Jews: Medieval Reality or Historiographical Fiction?

Medieval Encounters ◽

10.1163/15700674-12342236 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (5) ◽

pp. 517-539

Author(s):

Tzafrir Barzilay

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Fourteenth Century ◽

Large Scale ◽

Eleventh Century ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

Careful Analysis ◽

Modern Period ◽

Reliable Evidence

This article reexamines the idea prevalent in existing historiography that Jews were accused of well poisoning before 1321. It argues that the historians who studied the origins of such accusations were misled by sources written in the early modern period to think that Jews were charged with well poisoning as early as the eleventh century. However, a careful analysis of the sources reveals that there is little reliable evidence that such cases happened before the fourteenth century, much less on a large scale. Thus, the conclusions of the article call for a new chronology of well-poisoning charges made against Jews, starting closer to the fourteenth century.

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A landscape-ontology scale MTInSAR deformation monitoring solution for the sustainable conservation of architectural heritage sites

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-1555 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hang Xu ◽

FuLong Chen

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Anthropogenic Activities ◽

Deformation Monitoring ◽

Global Navigation Satellite Systems ◽

Structural Defects ◽

Spatial Density ◽

Architectural Heritage ◽

Heritage Sites ◽

Sustainable Conservation ◽

Great Wall

Architectural heritage is cultural and spiritual symbol of our predecessors with immeasurable historical, artistic, and technological value. However, these heritages are exposed to long-term degradation due to the combination impacts from the natural erosion and anthropogenic activities. Consequently, it is important to establish an effective deformation monitoring system to support the sustainable conservation of those properties. In order to make complementary to conventional geodetic measurements such as global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and leveling in terms of spatial density, we propose a landscape-ontology scale multi-temporal InSAR (MTInSAR) solution for the preventive deformation monitoring of large-scale architectural heritage sites through the adaption of current MTInSAR approaches. We apply different solutions in Shanhaiguan section of the Great Wall in China and the Angkor Wat in Cambodia based on their onsite characteristics. At the cultural landscape scale, we improve the small baseline subset (SBAS) approach by the induced pseudo-baseline strategy in order to avoid the errors caused by inaccurate external DEM, resulting in a robust deformation estimation in mountainous areas where the architecture heritage of the Great Wall located; at the ontology scale, we integrate the differential SAR tomography (DTomoSAR) with the finite element method (FEM) for the structural instability detection of the Angkor Wat Temple, pinpointing the structural defects from the 3D deformation measurements and simulation. This study demonstrates the capability of adaptive MTInSAR approaches for the preventive monitoring the deformation of large-scale architectural heritage sites.Keywords: Architectural heritage; two-scale; deformation; MTInSAR

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Scale, Landscape and Indigenous Bedouin Land Use: Spatial Order and Agricultural Sedentarisation in the Negev Highland

Nomadic Peoples ◽

10.3197/np.2021.250102 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 4-35

Author(s):

Ariel Meraiot ◽

Avinoam Meir ◽

Steve Rosen

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Small Scale ◽

Scale Analysis ◽

Structure Development ◽

British Mandate ◽

Field Surveys ◽

Ordered Field ◽

Modern Period ◽

Ordered Space ◽

Sustainable Planning

By taking a small-scale perspective, Bedouin pastoral space in the Israeli Negev in the modern period has been misinterpreted as chaotic by various Israeli institutions. In critiquing this ontology we suggest that a knowledge gap with regard to an appropriate scale of understanding Bedouin settlement patterns and mechanisms of sedentarisation is at its root, and that a larger-scale analysis indicates that their space is in fact highly ordered. Field surveys and interviews with the local Bedouin showed that household cultivation plots in the Negev Highland during the period of the British Mandate were organised at a large scale through natural and man-made landscape features reflecting their structure, development and deployment in a highly ordered space. This analysis carries significant implications for understanding pastoral spaces at the local scale, particularly offering better comprehension of various sedentary forms and suggesting new approaches to sustainable planning and development for the Bedouin.

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Teaching geography of Azerbaijan in the content of geography subject in secondary schools of general education

SCIENTIFIC WORK ◽

10.36719/2663-4619/62/136-140 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 62 (01) ◽

pp. 136-140

Author(s):

Aytaj Vazeh Tagiyeva ◽

Keyword(s):

Secondary Schools ◽

General Education ◽

Education System ◽

Large Scale ◽

Problem Situation ◽

Modern Period ◽

Teaching Unit ◽

Research Questions ◽

Map Analysis ◽

11Th Grade

Summary In the modern period of reforms in the education system of our country, large-scale changes are reflected in the teaching of geography, including the teaching of geography in Azerbaijan. Thus, in the country's secondary schools, Azerbaijani geography is taught in all classes on the basis of the principle of succession in geography. Geography of Azerbaijan plays an important role in the teaching of geography in secondary schools. Out of 57 subjects taught in the 10th grade, 16 subjects are taught entirely in Azerbaijani geography. In the 11th grade, 7 out of 44 topics are discussed in their entirety, the geography of Azerbaijan. In addition, the information on the geography of Azerbaijan is reflected in the structure of the problem situation, asking research questions, systematization of information, creative application of the lesson, assessment stages. Key words: education, training, geography of Azerbaijan, map, analysis, assessment, teaching unit, subject, text, illustration, assignment

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Tackling the challenges of reducing and managing food waste in Mumbai restaurants

British Food Journal ◽

10.1108/bfj-06-2017-0324 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 120 (3) ◽

pp. 639-649 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Jehangir Bharucha

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Food Waste ◽

Large Scale ◽

Qualitative Inquiry ◽

Restaurant Industry ◽

Content Type ◽

Innovative Strategies ◽

A Value ◽

Research Population ◽

Restaurant Owners

Purpose Around 67 million tons of food is wasted in India every year, which has a value of more than US$14 billion (Haq, 2016). The purpose of this paper is to concentrate on one major source to which the current massive proportion of wastage can be attributed: restaurants. It investigates the statistics, the problem at large, how the restaurants are handling it and recommends ways to better manage the issue. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative inquiry has been used. The research population for this study consisted of 63 restaurant owners across Mumbai city and its suburbs. In-depth discussions were held with these restaurant owners/managers in various matters of interest to this study. Findings The group of restaurateurs opined that the solution to Mumbai’s restaurants waste management lies in micro management rather than large scale plans. In total, 75 percent of the restaurants have 10-20 percent extra preparation. High-end fine-dining restaurants make even more additional preparations and are the ones more receptive to participating and also sensitive toward importance of waste management. Several of the restaurant owners claim that they can estimate the requirements on specific days of the week. In all, 18 percent of the restaurants surveyed claimed to have a complete dispose of policy. Majority of the restaurants have a clear policy to distribute the surplus food among their staff. Several other innovative strategies were shared. Research limitations/implications The restaurant owners/mangers may not have truthfully answered all questions. The participants might have the fear that the authorities would take cognizance of some of the practices that they are following and would have been guarded in their responses. There would always be a fear that the identities would not be kept confidential. Practical implications India as a country has been agriculture based for centuries and characterized by massive food production. Yet, people face rampant starvation and malnourishment. This arises to a large extent due to the colossal amounts of food wasted at marriages, restaurants and even by destruction of crops. Originality/value The restaurant industry is of critical importance to the Indian economy and while research in India has focused on overall food wastage, studies on restaurant food waste are lacking.

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Introduction

Manhunts ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691151656.003.0001 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Grégoire Chamayou ◽

Steven Rendall

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Ancient Greece ◽

Human Beings ◽

Modern Period ◽

History Of

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book focuses on manhunts—the concrete historical phenomena in which human beings were tracked down, captured, or killed in accord with the forms of the hunt. These were regular and sometimes large-scale practices whose forms were first theorized in ancient Greece, long before their enormous expansion in the modern period in conjunction with the development of transatlantic capitalism. The main problem has to do with the fact that the hunter and the hunted do not belong to different species. Since the distinction between the predator and his prey is not inscribed in nature, the hunting relationship is always susceptible to a reversal of positions. Prey sometimes band together to become hunters in their turn. The history of a power is also the history of the struggles to overthrow it.

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3D Digitization of Architectural Heritage

Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies - Analysis, Conservation, and Restoration of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-6936-7.ch003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 51-85

Author(s):

Caterina Morganti ◽

Cristiana Bartolomei

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Large Scale ◽

Current Issue ◽

Technological Application ◽

Historical Buildings ◽

Architectural Heritage ◽

3D Digitization ◽

Cloud Of Points

This project's principal intention is developing a structure from a motion thematic applied to an architecture field in both medium and large scale, in order to generate a cloud of points. These are obtained thanks to photographic footage, which can later be used during the H-BIM process. The matter of 3D digitalization is a very current issue for many countries including Cuba. The growth of such a technological application for tridimensional restitution of historical buildings is treated by giving special attention to those belonging to Havana's architectural and cultural heritage.

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Digital Surveying in Cultural Heritage

Advances in Library and Information Science - Handbook of Research on Emerging Technologies for Digital Preservation and Information Modeling ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0680-5.ch006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 119-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Efstratios Stylianidis ◽

Andreas Georgopoulos

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Case Studies ◽

Large Scale ◽

Human Being ◽

Catalytic Role ◽

Cultural Heritage Objects

Cultural Heritage is recognized as a priceless asset of human being, which exposes the humanity's achievements over centuries. The need for documentation and preservation of cultural heritage is well known worldwide. Digital surveying techniques are playing a catalytic role towards recording and documentation of cultural heritage. This chapter describes the methodological and technological aspects of image-based recording and documentation approaches acting as the vehicle for the digital surveying of cultural heritage. The chapter not only describes the different technologies and techniques used but also goes to the extent of clarifying several applied implementation issues. Three different examples and application case studies from a small, a medium and a large-scale cultural heritage objects are provided to demonstrate the developments.

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