4016) The Specific Characters regarding to the Traffic Volumes in the Sub-Central Business District : Shinjuku(Town Planning, Building Economy)

1959 ◽  
Vol 63.2 (0) ◽  
pp. 405-408
Author(s):  
Shigeru Ito
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Traffic Volumes ◽  
Business District

Hedonic pricing in Windhoek townships

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Nokokure Humavindu ◽  
Jesper Stage
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
Hedonic Pricing ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
Hedonic Pricing Model ◽  
Property Prices ◽  
Hedonic Pricing Method ◽  
Recreation Area ◽  
Business District

This study applies the hedonic pricing model to property sales in the township areas in Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia, where municipal authorities have pursued a programme of selling plots of land to settlers in order to encourage them into a formalized economic situation. We find that, apart from house quality, access to the central business district, access to marketplaces and access to transportation, environmental quality also has a large impact on property prices. Properties located close to a garbage dump sell at considerable discounts, while properties located close to a combined conservation and recreation area sell at premium prices. The results thus suggest that the hedonic pricing method can be useful for studying townships in developing countries, and that this can help to clarify the importance of environmental factors which are otherwise frequently neglected in town planning for township settlements.

scholarly journals Twelve shades of grey: encountering urban colour in the street in British provincial towns, c. 1945–1970

Urban History ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-308
Author(s):  
LUCY FAIRE ◽  
DENISE MCHUGH
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
City Centre ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Post War ◽  
Business District ◽  
The City ◽  
City Centres

ABSTRACTThis article examines the neglected sensory experience of visual physical colour in the city/town centre or what is now referred to as the Central Business District. It focuses on the post-war period when reconstruction, town planning, new architecture, novel materials and technologies, and investment were all transforming British city centres. The research uses film, photographs, planning documents, oral history and social media reminiscences to research the users’ experience of colour in the city centre streets. It argues that, although new materials in construction opened up the possibilities of bright, ‘non-natural’ colours in the urban built environment, the visual experience of colour was found mainly in the ephemera of everyday life. Furthermore, it argues that colour was an important component in constructing people's sense of place and belonging in the city.

Swan Street Bridge Upgrade – Widening a 70-year old bridge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Watson ◽  
Scott Paton ◽  
Andrew Cowell
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Arch Bridge ◽  
Traffic Volumes ◽  
Design Competition ◽  
Bridge Crossing ◽  
Business District ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Yarra River

<p>The Swan Street Bridge is a reinforced concrete five-span arch bridge crossing the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. Constructed circa 1950, it provided four lanes of traffic and narrow pedestrian footpaths on both sides. The bridge forms part of a key route for vehicular access into the Central Business District, as well as pedestrian thoroughfare to the sporting and events precinct.</p><p>Substantial increases in traffic volumes meant the bridge had become a significant bottleneck and was hazardous for pedestrians. In response to this, a scheme was developed to widen the bridge – providing an additional lane of traffic and four-metre-wide Shared User Paths on both sides – all guided by an overlaying architectural vision created by the winner of a design competition.</p><p>This paper presents the structural technical solutions adopted for the strengthening and widening, which considered the original structural design, as well as the architectural intent for the widening.</p>

scholarly journals Analysis of Urban Effects in Oklahoma City using a Dense Surface Observing Network

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 723-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Ming Hu ◽  
Ming Xue ◽  
Petra M. Klein ◽  
Bradley G. Illston ◽  
Sheng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Temperature Inversion ◽  
Oklahoma City ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Business District

AbstractMany studies have investigated urban heat island (UHI) intensity for cities around the world, which is normally quantified as the temperature difference between urban location(s) and rural location(s). A few open questions still remain regarding the UHI, such as the spatial distribution of UHI intensity, temporal (including diurnal and seasonal) variation of UHI intensity, and the UHI formation mechanism. A dense network of atmospheric monitoring sites, known as the Oklahoma City (OKC) Micronet (OKCNET), was deployed in 2008 across the OKC metropolitan area. This study analyzes data from OKCNET in 2009 and 2010 to investigate OKC UHI at a subcity spatial scale for the first time. The UHI intensity exhibited large spatial variations over OKC. During both daytime and nighttime, the strongest UHI intensity is mostly confined around the central business district where land surface roughness is the highest in the OKC metropolitan area. These results do not support the roughness warming theory to explain the air temperature UHI in OKC. The UHI intensity of OKC increased prominently around the early evening transition (EET) and stayed at a fairly constant level throughout the night. The physical processes during the EET play a critical role in determining the nocturnal UHI intensity. The near-surface rural temperature inversion strength was a good indicator for nocturnal UHI intensity. As a consequence of the relatively weak near-surface rural inversion, the strongest nocturnal UHI in OKC was less likely to occur in summer. Other meteorological factors (e.g., wind speed and cloud) can affect the stability/depth of the nighttime boundary layer and can thus modulate nocturnal UHI intensity.

Building use by urban commensal avifauna in Melbourne central business district, Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Pike ◽  
Dirk H. R. Spennemann ◽  
Maggie J. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
Business District
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