scholarly journals A Study of Regional Assertions in the Architecture of Delhi from the 1970s to the present

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanyam Bahga ◽  
Gaurav Raheja
Keyword(s):  
Site Conditions ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
The Past ◽  
External Influences ◽  
Critical Regionalism ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Similar Site ◽  
Aesthetic Preferences

Critical regionalism is an architectural approach that seeks to correct sterile and abstract modernism by using contextual forces that focus on local needs and potential. As globalisation disrupts and displaces local building traditions in India’s metropolitan cities, critical regionalism offers resistance to the homogenising forces of global modernism. This paper analyses five key architectural works realised in Delhi in the past four decades that incorporate the ideas of critical regionalism in their designs. The different approaches adopted by regionalist architects in dealing with local climate, topography, materials and sociological complexes have been presented. By limiting itself to regionalist works in Delhi, the paper attempts to highlight that critical regionalism is not a set of aesthetic preferences but a philosophical framework capable of producing diverse forms of architecture despite analogous external influences arising from similar site conditions.

Approaches to Urban Noise Management in India

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelima S. Naik
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Urban Noise ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Metropolitan Cities

Noise pollution in urban areas is recognized as a major environmental concern in India. The lack of infrastructure and fast paced life in major metropolitan cities of India has made the urban environment extremely crowded, busy as well as noisy and as a result the millions of people living in the major metropolitan areas are suffering from the impacts of noise pollution. Noise levels are escalating at such a rate that it has become a major threat to the quality of human lives. Direct links between noise and health have been established by research conducted over the past few decades. There are several causes for urban degradation such as population migration, environmental considerations not adequately being incorporated into master plans, uncoordinated and haphazard development, weak implementation of plans and laws and inadequate institutional competences and resource crunch. This paper discusses the causal factors, impacts and the different approaches adopted by the Central Government as well as some major State Pollution Control Boards to curb the urban noise problem and the need for looking into non-conventional solutions such as Ecocity programme to bring in visible environmental improvement.

scholarly journals AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE IN CENTRAL OTAGO

1987 ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
G.G. Cossens
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Resource Value ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Horticultural Crops ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Dominant Activity ◽  
Continental Climate

The variation and individuality of Central Otago result from a unique combination of climate and topography. The range and basin structures produce New Zealand's nearest approach to a "Continental" Climate, and on a yearly basis Central Otago can be one of the driest as well as one of the hottest and coldest areas in the country. There are two unique features. The first a dry central core wth horticulture as a dominant activity. The second is a high pastoral plateau, the East Otago Plateau, from 400 to 900 metres altitude, marking the Eastern boundary of Central Otago. The agricultural pattern is traditional but it is suggested there is scope for other non traditional crops. Of all the physical elements surveyed in the past, e.g. rock or soil type, slope or vegetation, there is frequently no reference to climate. However, the resource value of any locality draws from its particular local climate or "topoclimate". Climate when regarded as such requires a new approach to data gathering. Research in Central Otago aims to increase our knowledge of topoclimate on the valley floors and locate special microclimates suitable for possible and existing horticultural crops and at the same time remove some of the hazards. Keywords: topoclimate

scholarly journals The Unavoidable Metaphor of Memorial Architecture: The Boundaries and Event-Space of Chernobyl Reactor No. 4

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christopher Ian van der Veen
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Functional Capacity ◽  
Event Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
External Influences ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Actual Event ◽  
Chernobyl Reactor

<p>In the design of memorial architecture, there is encountered an overuse of literal metaphor in order to translate difficult concepts into the built form. These metaphors are explored in contemporary examples of memorial and hybrid-memorial typologies. Within Chernobyl, there is a set of criteria that enable these metaphorical interpretations to operate on a more complex level, and allow the act of memorialising a truer response. The unique conditions contained within the reactor allow for a reinterpretation of architectural process, which is already realised by the existing Sarcophagus - a reactive memorial itself, designed to entomb the burnt core and its radioactive properties. As such, the reactor and its attached site can no longer be re-used in any functional capacity; the proposed memorial embraces these criteria, exploiting phenomenological thought in order to locate a set of boundary conditions. This creates an event-space -  that being the location of inhabitable architecture within the reactor. Event-space exists between the boundaries established, which is a conceptual entity that is able exist in reality, and enable flashes of the past events to surface, which are interpreted by the memorial inhabitants. The memorial uses this event-space, within the sites absence of function, to locate the actual event of the disaster in the past. This fragile undertaking is achieved by placing greater responsibility on architecture to mediate the design of memorial, and remove external influences that halt this process.</p>

Methodological Dimensions of Delineating Peri-urban Areas: The Case of Kolkata Metropolis

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Dinabandhu Mondal ◽  
Sucharita Sen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Transitions ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Municipal Boundaries ◽  
The City ◽  
Complex Characters

In the past few decades, due to urbanization and spatial expansion of cities beyond their municipal boundaries, complex interactions between the city and its surrounding rural areas have occurred, resulting in the formation of peri-urban spaces or zones of transition. There is a plurality of definitions for these peri-urban spaces, due to their diverse character in terms of land and water use, livelihood shifts, demographic and social transitions. Most peri-urban areas, specifically those around large metropolitan cities, are increasingly assuming complex characters, which call for governance structures beyond rural–urban binaries. For any administrative intervention of a serious nature in peri-urban areas, a standard methodology for demarcation of these spaces is required. This article is an attempt to develop and apply such a methodology beyond the existing ones, using government sources of data, in the case of Kolkata Metropolis. This article uses socio-economic and land-use characteristics to achieve this objective. It finds that peri-urban spaces do not necessarily develop uniformly around the city; instead, they are fragmented and could be located both near or relatively far from urban areas.

scholarly journals Storm Water Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VIII) ◽  
pp. 45-46
Author(s):  
Saurabh Ravikiran Dake
Keyword(s):  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
Site Conditions ◽  
Urban Flooding ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Site ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management ◽  
Impervious Areas

Over the past years, rapid growth due to urbanization and industrialization, the changes in Land over and land use patterns have resulted in permanent environmental pollution to the hydrological processes. The hydrological cycle in cities is seriously affected due to increasing impervious areas as a result of urban development which has enhanced the risk of urban flooding. The increase in the impermeable area decreases infiltration, increases the runoff and reduces the time of concentration. Hence, for a given amount of rainfall, greater flooding is generated. Understanding the scope and limitation of sustainable stormwater management techniques detailed literature review is carried out. Site suitability is based on spatial analysis of data like geomorphology, slope, recharge condition, landuse and Landover map. Then analyzing local site conditions possible techniques that could be used to manage stormwater runoff are recommended and conclusions are drawn on the same.

scholarly journals Regulatory Politics And Short Selling

2009 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik R. Sirri
Keyword(s):  
Short Selling ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Market Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
External Influences ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
Regulatory Politics

The SEC has plenary authority over the short selling of exchangeregistered securities. In the past it has altered the regulatory framework for short selling only occasionally, relying primarily on no-action letters to guide evolving practices and issues. Since early 2008, the SEC promulgated, either on a proposing, final, interim-final, or emergency basis, a raft of rules related to short selling, all of which generally restrict the ability of investors to sell stocks short. Much of this rulemaking reverses a course of policy set out by the SEC to carefully balance efficiency and market quality issues. This paper considers various reasons the SEC may have struck out on such a divergent course. In particular, it highlights the role of external influences on the SEC as it relates to short selling policy.

scholarly journals Rethinking Tradition—Another Look at the Essential Characteristics and Meanings of Ruen Thai

MANUSYA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piyalada Devakula Thaveeprungsriporn
Keyword(s):  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Comparative Case Studies ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Many ◽  
Present World ◽  
Interpretive Process ◽  
Thai Culture

The essay explores the essential experiential characteristics of the traditional house, particularly those which may be appropriately interwoven into the fabric of Thai urban dwellings today. With hermeneutic phenomenology as its philosophical framework, the in-depth exploration takes the form of four comparative case studies, each representing a point in the line of tradition. Through a layering descriptive and interpretive process, five essential patterns emerge, each of which finds its meanings richly traceable to the various facets of the Thai culture. Together, the patterns and their meanings give rise to a framework, which reveals the many facets of a dwelling place, as well as their interrelationship and significance to the human experience. This evolving place structure underscores the long deserved significance of the aesthetic and metaphysical aspects of place. Finally, the essay points out that tradition has served as a mirror which helps fostering an understanding of the present world. Through the everyday language and gestures, traces of forgotten meanings from the past re-emerge into light. In the end, the discoveries put forth in this paper raise a few issues revolving around the very idea of tradition—e.g. whether tradition can be viewed not as a “thing,” but rather a process in which the old interacts with the new, a selecting and filtering process wherein time is an essential agent, and we human are thus inherently conditioned by it.

scholarly journals Numerical modelling of past retreat and future evolution of Chhota Shigri glacier in Western Indian Himalaya

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (75pt2) ◽  
pp. 136-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prateek Gantayat ◽  
Anil V. Kulkarni ◽  
J. Srinivasan ◽  
Maurice J Schmeits
Keyword(s):  
Indian Himalaya ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chhota Shigri Glacier ◽  
Climatic Scenarios ◽  
History Of ◽  
Glacier Length ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT The history of glacier length fluctuations serves as a reliable indicator of the past climate. In this paper, a numerical flowline model has been used to study the relationship between length variations of Chhota Shigri glacier and local climate since 1876. The simulated front positions of Chhota Shigri glacier are in agreement with those observed. After a successful simulation of the past retreat, the model was also used to predict future evolution of the glacier for the next 100 years under different climatic scenarios. These simulations indicate that the Chhota Shigri glacier may lose ~90% of its present volume by 2100 if the local temperature increases by 2.4 K, and for a temperature rise of 5.5 K, the glacier loses almost all its volume.

A Comparison of Litterfall Dynamics in Three Coniferous Plantations of Identical Age under Similar Site Conditions

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Yeob Jeong ◽  
Choon-Sig Kim ◽  
Hyun-Chul An ◽  
Hyun-Seo Cho ◽  
Gap-Chul Choo
Keyword(s):  
Site Conditions ◽  
Coniferous Plantations ◽  
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scholarly journals Identification of architectural elements of kalang house in Kotagede Yogyakarta

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTEKS Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur ◽  
Sidhi Pramudito
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Site Conditions ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
Art Deco ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The Past ◽  
Roof Shape ◽  
House Building

Kalang house on Jalan Mondorakan, Kotagede is a Javanese traditional house built and owned by Javanese people by adopting architectural elements from art nouveau and art deco architecture. Kalang house reflects Javanese houses in terms of spatial aspects, roof shape, and some Javanese ornaments. Whereas the influence of art nouveau and art deco are shown from themed ornaments and are the result of stilation of flora and fauna which are different with ornamentation in traditional Javanese houses. This study aims to identify architectural elements in kalang houses and find out what factors influence the differences and similarities in the processing of architectural elements in kalang house. This study uses descriptive methods through case studies in the field with analysis through qualitative methods. Methods of data collection through direct observation, interviews, documentation and supported by literature studies. The results of this study indicate that the differences and similarities of architectural elements in homes are affected by several factors such as the owner's socio-economic (profession), history, functions and activities from the past to the present, and site conditions (dimension, form, site position of the circulation path). Through the results of this study, it is expected to be able to support the effort of preserving house building as one of Indonesia's distinctive cultural heritage, especially Kotagede.

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