Megastructures. What is really the point?

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Alvaro Domingues
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Transport Networks ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Rural Roads ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Industrial Estates ◽  
Local Transport

- The article explores megastructures in relation to their impact on local transport networks and nodes. The area examined is Portugal, where the recent construction of giant shopping malls, industrial estates and logistics centres has in turn led to large-scale infrastructures that have been superimposed on a settlement pattern consisting, in many cases, of urban agglomerations serviced by rural roads. The resulting landscape reveals a juxtaposition of completely different elements in terms of both scale and impact, often the outcome of urban zoning projects intruding on fragmented urbanisation. The resulting image is one of scattered settlement patterns. Behind these phenomena one can see the effects of splintering urbanism. The difficulty in coordinating, in time and space, the decisions made and actions taken by a wide variety of individuals and institutions is becoming increasingly more complex.

Community Settlement Patterns at Chan Chan, Peru

1970 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael West
Keyword(s):  
Population Size ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Surface Survey ◽  
The Many

AbstractA recent surface survey was conducted at the site of Chan Chan, Peru, for purposes of investigating the nature of community settlement patterns. Previous writers have tended to view these in terms of the speculated sociological implications of specific largescale architectural features known as ciudadelas. In doing so they have neglected an extremely important body of information regarding the many small and inconspicuous building units that are closely associated with the ciudadelas. The present survey concentrated on the smaller complexes and provided data that were relevant to studying aspects of community settlement patterning such as house types, distribution of public buildings, street layouts, distribution of population types, population size and density. The results indicate that the range of social activities that were engaged in at Chan Chan during its flourish cannot possibly be understood in terms of the implications of large-scale architecture. It is suggested here that the overall community settlement pattern of Chan Chan is coincidental to the configuration described by Sjoberg (1965) for the typical preindustrial city. The hypotheses and suggestions generated by this study provide a base or foundation for future research at the site.

Models, Practices and Methods of Reading: Evolution in Time and Space

2009 ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Yulia P. Melentyeva
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
National Program ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Individual

In recent years as public in general and specialist have been showing big interest to the matters of reading. According to discussion and launch of the “Support and Development of Reading National Program”, many Russian libraries are organizing the large-scale events like marathons, lecture cycles, bibliographic trainings etc. which should draw attention of different social groups to reading. The individual forms of attraction to reading are used much rare. To author’s mind the main reason of such an issue has to be the lack of information about forms and methods of attraction to reading.

scholarly journals Navigability assessment of large-scale redesigns in nine public transport networks: Open timetable data approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 212-229
Author(s):  
Christoffer Weckström ◽  
Miloš N. Mladenović ◽  
Rainer Kujala ◽  
Jari Saramäki
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transport Networks

Chronique d’une écologie décoloniale dans C’est ma terre de Fabrice Bouckat

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Naudillon
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Agent Orange ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The West ◽  
The One

The documentary film C’est ma terre by Fabrice Bouckat screened during the 2019 edition of Terrafestival is one of the first large-scale films produced locally on the crisis of the chlordecone molecule. This article will examine from a decolonial perspective, how its director, a Martinican with Gabonese origins who lives and works in Guadeloupe, develops a synthetic and universal vision of environmental crises, and thus demonstrates that destruction of ecosystems crosses time and space, cultures and lands, languages and peoples by bringing ecological crisis in the West Indies closer to the one experienced by the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.

scholarly journals Assessment of large-scale transitions in public transport networks using open timetable data: case of Helsinki metro extension

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 102470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoffer Weckström ◽  
Rainer Kujala ◽  
Miloš N. Mladenović ◽  
Jari Saramäki
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Transport Networks

scholarly journals How Maya Archaeologists Discovered the 99% Through the Study of Settlement Patterns

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Maya Archaeology ◽  
Maya Civilization ◽  
The Many

This article presents an autobiographical perspective on the changing nature of Maya archaeology, focusing on the role of settlement pattern studies in illuminating the lives of commoners as well as on the traditional emphasis on the ruling elite. Advances in understanding the nature of nonelite peoples in ancient Maya society are discussed, as are the many current gaps in scholarly understandings of pre-Columbian Maya civilization, especially with regard to the diversity of ancient “commoners” and the difficulty in analyzing them as a single group.

scholarly journals Multiobjective Reactive Power Optimization of Renewable Energy Power Plants Based on Time-and-Space Grouping Method

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 3556
Author(s):  
Linan Qu ◽  
Shujie Zhang ◽  
Hsiung-Cheng Lin ◽  
Ning Chen ◽  
Lingling Li
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Power Optimization ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Reactive Power Optimization ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Bus Voltage

The large-scale renewable energy power plants connected to a weak grid may cause bus voltage fluctuations in the renewable energy power plant and even power grid. Therefore, reactive power compensation is demanded to stabilize the bus voltage and reduce network loss. For this purpose, time-series characteristics of renewable energy power plants are firstly reflected using K-means++ clustering method. The time group behaviors of renewable energy power plants, spatial behaviors of renewable energy generation units, and a time-and-space grouping model of renewable energy power plants are thus established. Then, a mixed-integer optimization method for reactive power compensation in renewable energy power plants is developed based on the second-order cone programming (SOCP). Accordingly, power flow constraints can be simplified to achieve reactive power optimization more efficiently and quickly. Finally, the feasibility and economy for the proposed method are verified by actual renewable energy power plants.

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