scholarly journals Thermal and Airflow Characteristics of Transitional Spaces In a Traditional Urban Fabric Case Study of a Covered Walkway in Timimoun (South West Of Algeria)

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khelifi Lamia ◽  
Bensalem Rafik ◽  
Semmar Djaffar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Fabric ◽  
South West ◽  
Transitional Spaces

scholarly journals Non financial compensation for the redevelopment of the historic urban landscape: the case study of Villasor in Sardinia (Italy)

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Colavitti ◽  
Sergio Serra
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Financial Compensation ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Italian Experience

Abstract In Europe, the debate on the recovery of the historic centres has been developed, over the years, around the balance between conservation and transformation needs in order to meet the new demands of the contemporary world. In the field of urban planning, the strictly conservative and binding approach has gradually been supported by flexible and consensual mechanisms that act as a stimulus to private initiative in the redevelopment and regeneration of the historic urban landscape. The consolidated Italian experience in the policies for the protection and enhancement of historical settlements is being significantly innovated after the entry into force of the Urbani Code, which extends the character of landscape heritage to the historic urban fabric, transferring to the regional authorities the task of establishing the specific regulations for its use and transformation. The Region of Sardinia has achieved an important role in the implementation of policies for the recovery and redevelopment of the historic centres identified by the Regional Landscape Plan (RLP). The common and consolidated practice is still characterized by the use of traditional regulative instruments, in particular the detailed plan, which provide rules for the requalification of the compromised urban fabrics through a set of rules and guidelines to be applied to the replacement of recent buildings and the renovation of urban patterns that for density, ratios between solids and voids, heights, alignments and elevations are incompatible with the values of the context. The constraint and binding approach is effective in the conservation strategies but often inadequate to implement actions of integrated redevelopment of urban fabric altered by new buildings in contrast with the historic urban landscape features, also due to the global crisis situation and the shortage of public funding. The paper proposes the use of the non-financial compensation tool, based on the granting of bonus development rights to realising on site or in alternative locations, in order to encourage urban regeneration projects that also involve the replacement of buildings incompatible with historical urban landscape morphological patterns. The integration of a methodology for assessing the financial feasibility of the demolition and reconstruction of the incompatible structures in the planning process, as tested in the case study of Villasor municipality, has allowed the elaboration of a model to support the use of a compensation mechanism for the redevelopment of historical settlement values. In this perspective, the paper aims to investigate the opportunities provided by market-oriented and flexible approaches to support and promote private urban regeneration projects. In particular, it illustrates the experimental results of a methodology for the analysis of the urban fabric that takes into account the factors influencing the feasibility of the intervention of demolition and reconstruction of the incompatible buildings. Finally a model for the assessment of any bonus in terms of additional building capacity is suggested, to be granted to private operators as an incentive to ensure the cost-effectiveness of the project.

scholarly journals Effect of River Salinity on Crop Diversity: A Case Study of South West Coastal Region of Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Animesh K. Gain ◽  
Kul P. Aryal ◽  
Pritish Sana ◽  
Md Nazim Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Saline Water ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Saline Water Intrusion ◽  
South West ◽  
Agricultural Diversity ◽  
Structured Questionnaire ◽  
Local Farmers ◽  
Saline Zone

Saline water intrusion is a major problem and conflicting issue in south-west coastal region of Bangladesh. The increased salinity has negative impact on agricultural diversity in this region. The present study provides an assessment of perception of local farmers about changes of agricultural diversity mainly diversity of vegetable species (both summer and winter) and standing plants with the changes of salinity level in the nearby river. This study was carried out in January to August 2005 through semi-structured questionnaire in selected villages of different salinity prone areas such as high saline zone and moderate saline zone, namely Paikgacha and Rampal, respectively. The study has revealed that in Paikgacha, the salinity varies approximately within the range from 20,000 to 45,000 micro-mhos and in Rampal it is from 10,000 to 30,000 micro-mhos. Due to increased salinity, the summer vegetable species in Paikgacha and Rampal have been reduced from 16 to 2 and 15 to 9 respectively during the period 1975-2005. For winter vegetable species, this figure wasreduced from 13 to 9 in Paikgacha but in Rampal this number remained unchanged. Standing plant species in Paikgacha and Rampal have been reduced from 31 to 14 and 35 to21 respectively during that period. Agricultural diversity is reducing in substantial rate both spatially and temporally.Nepal Agric. Res. J. Vol. 8, 2007, pp. 29-37 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/narj.v8i0.11576

scholarly journals FIGURE-GROUND MAPPING TO IDENTIFY URBAN FABRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF GEORGE TOWN HERITAGE ZONE

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tan Bee Eu ◽  
Teh Weng Jen
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Linkage Study ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Height Control ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
George Town

The traditional Penang shophouses with its unique architecture elements constitutes the largest portion of the heritage zone which form a massive and coherently unique urban fabric. Conservation guidelines have been enforced to preserve the pre-war shophouses, by implementing classification of heritage buildings, façade/structural restoration, height control and so on. Are these measures truly effective to ensure meaningful intervention within the existing urban fabric? Preservation and conservation of the physical elements of existing shophouse will remain a superficial effort if no attempt is made to understand first the urban sense of place, the town planning language, the very fabric that weaves the solid formed by buildings with the void spaces of roads, parks, courtyards, foot paths and back lanes. Hebbert (2016) reckons figure-ground plans as the commonest type of image used in town planning, so common that it is easy to overlook their peculiar characteristics. This paper aims to revisit the power of figure-ground mapping and illustrates how its imaging will lead todeciphering the unique fabric of George Town. The author also employs an “Integrated Approach” (Trancik, 1986) by layering the two-dimensional solidvoid mappings with linkage study and sense of place to analyse unique patterns of two case study archetypes that reveal exceptional urban spatial characteristics of George Town that few have come to appreciate.

scholarly journals DAYLIGHT INVESTIGATION IN CAMPUS LECTURE THEATERS. CASE STUDY: SOUTH WEST COAST UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-100
Author(s):  
OYELEYE OLAYINKA ◽  
MAKANJU TOLULOPE
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Wall Area ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Coast ◽  
Window Area

Appropriate day lighting design saves lighting power energy (LPE) and reduces LPE cost. This research investigates daylight contribution of in selected north campus lecture theaters in a South West Coast University of Nigeria. TES 1332A lux meter was used for lux level determination. The window area to wall area (AWD to AW) ratio was determined using reliable algorithms. In the three studied buildings, the daylight contribution varies from 12 lux to 3803 lux; AWD to AW varies from 14 % to 22 % to 37 %; 22 % AWD to AW is considered moderate while 37 % AWD to AW is considered more suitable in the studied buildings.

An assessment of canopy chemistry with AVIRIS—a case study in the Landes Forest, South-west France

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. GASTELLU-ETCHEGORRY ◽  
F. ZAGOLSKI ◽  
E. MOUGTN ◽  
G. MARTY ◽  
G. GIORDANO
Keyword(s):  
South West

BUILDING THE SOCIAL CAPITAL IN RURAL AREAS’ SMES WOMEN COOPERATIVE, GARGALIANI, SOUTH-WEST PELOPONNESOS

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonidas Papakonstantinidis
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local People ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
South West ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Procedure

The purpose of this paper is to prove that the rationalization of the “Integrated Endogenous Local Development” should be proved to be a valuable policy mean, under the proposed methodological procedure of Sensitizing Local People, through the “animation procedure”, toward developing their own skills, capacities and therefore their place, that are asked by the local SMEs Sensitization may be proved to be the fundamental methodological tool, for building the social capital at local level, by making valuable local people’s “intrinsic inclinations”-a “term” which is stronger than “capacities”- under a new value system, and human communication. ”Sensitization” - as the upper limit of the sensitization procedure- is been approached, step by step, especially: Establishing the “bottom-up approach” in planning the development procedure at local level, Establishing the “animation procedure” among local people, Analysing local people “intrinsic inclinations” in context with a “system value”, Creating a “team psychology” among local people, Encouraging local people in finding and adopting the local “Flag Theme”. The proposed procedure may be useful, especially in small, less developed and isolated rural areas. A case-study “Women Cooperative, Gargaliani, South-West Peloponnesos”, is referred as a typical case of the development procedure, based on local people (women) animation in Greece.

Teaching Case for Addressing Risks with Strategies in an International Airport Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-35
Author(s):  
Daly Paulose
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Risk Management Framework ◽  
South West ◽  
Management Project

This is a case applying risk management, project management, and business strategy theories. The center piece is a successful build-own-operate (BOO) international airport mega-project completed in south-west India. This case study was applied for teaching a university senior-level course in business strategy. The paper explains the risk management framework, expected monetary value (EMV) calculation, and how the theoretical models can be applied to the BOO project. It then presents worked-out solutions to selected EMV problems.

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