scholarly journals Managing Urban Landscape towards the Sustainable City: A Case Study from Northern Greece

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 518-524
Author(s):  
Sofianou Paraskevi-Kali
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Development Policies

One of the areas of human activity which exerts severe pressure on the environment is the management of urban landscape. Many of the modern Greek cities have experienced intense urbanization and expanding, but without the appropriate means to support them. The continuous expansion of the built environment, the degradation of living conditions due to pollution etc., are some of the factors that threaten the contemporary urban environment and hinder progress towards the sustainable city.In this paper an attempt is made to explore the problems and opportunities that a city of Northern Greece, Komotini, presents, with rich natural, historical and multicultural backgrounds. Through thorough planning and targeted development policies can be determined the appropriate actions in urban environment, in order to prevent and legalize some of the principles of the sustainable city.

Landscaping Selves Through Parkour: Reinterpreting the Urban Environment of Singapore

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Bin Loo ◽  
Tim Bunnell
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
The Self ◽  
Complex Relationships

Drawing on cultural geographical work on mobilities and landscape, this article examines parkour in Singapore, a context in which everyday mobile practices are conventionally understood to be heavily constrained and disciplined. As an urban mobile practice that involves bodily adaptation to and dynamic interaction with the prevailing built environment, parkour reveals complex relationships between the self and the landscape. For its practitioners, the doing of parkour holds potential not only for reimagining what Singapore’s urban landscape is or can be but also for reconfiguring understandings of themselves. The term landscaping captures the continuous and concurrent shaping of self and landscape through parkour; landscapes affect individual bodies and are actively (re)constituted through embodied movement. The article engages parkour in more-than-representational terms. By segueing between discursive and phenomenological approaches to mobilities and landscape, a dual emphasis on corporeal experience and representational frameworks highlights how both create and/or regulate such mobile bodies and practices within the landscape.

scholarly journals Preface

2021 ◽  
Vol 933 (1) ◽  
pp. 011001
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Plenary Session ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Parallel Session ◽  
Sustainable Resource Management ◽  
Rural And Urban

It is my great pleasure to grace all of your presence to the 6th ICSBE 2021 virtually. The International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment is bi-annual conference started from 2010 till now. At first, the 6th ICSBE was scheduled in 2020 however, the COVID-19 pandemic altered all of our life order including this conference that have to be postponed into 2021 and conducted virtually. This conference is held for 2 days in 19 – 20 October 2021 conducted in Faculty of Civil and Planning Engineering, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta-Indonesia. The main theme of the 6th ICSBE 2021 is “sustainable infrastructure and environment for the smart cities”. This theme was dedicated to discuss and deliver an implementable solution to address the issues of urban planning, transport systems, water and sanitation, waste management, disaster risk reduction, access information, education, and capacity-building. Therefore, it is important to mapping, planning and designing a sustainable environment and infrastructure that may greatly encounter and reduce those issues above to reach the sustainable development goals. Based on this, this conference focuses the following topics but not limited to livable rural and urban environment, green infrastructure, sustainable resource management, sustainable city and disaster management. In this conference, we received more than 80 papers at the beginning, which were covering in five topics. All the submitted papers were reviewed by peer to peer and double blind with two reviewers. The 6th ICSBE highly applied strong and accurate review process prior to be published in the IOP conference proceeding indexed Scopus in the series of Earth Environmental Science (EES). Finally, we are accepting 50 papers to be presented in this conference. The conference model is plenary session and parallel session which is held for 2 days. In the plenary session, there are 3 invited speakers for the 1st day and 2nd day. Each invited speakers are allowed to give presentation for 30 minutes. The question answer is given after all invited speakers finished their presentation for 40 minutes. In the parallel session, there are 5 subtopics delivered in 2 days. In the 1st day, 3 subtopics: Green Infrastructure, Sustainable Resource Management, and Sustainable City are delivered. There are 26 presenters delivered their paper. In the 2nd day, 2 subtopics: Disaster Management, and Livable Rural and Urban Environment, are delivered. There 24 presenters delivered their paper. Each presenters have 12 minutes to give presentation and 3 minutes for question and answer. All the conference presentation is delivered by using zoom technology belongs to Universitas Islam Indonesia with 1000 capacity of participants. This conference is participated by audience from Indonesia, Turkey, Japan, USA, Malaysia, and Germany. The 6th ICSBE 2021 is organized by the faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning, Universitas Islam Indonesia and supported by partner universities; Gifu University (Japan), University of Malaya (Malaysia), University of Rhode Island (USA), National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), University of Boras (Sweden), University Hawaii at Manoa (USA), Hokkaido University (Japan), Alanya Alaaddin Kaykubat University (Turkey), Behaus-Universitaet Weimar (Germany), National University of Singapore (Singapore), and other international institutes Last but not least, I would express our sincere gratitude to the keynote speaker: The Governor of Jakarta, Anies Rasyid Baswedan, Ph.D, to the the invited speakers Prof. Nobouto Nojima, Prof. Noor Cholis Idham, Prof. Frank Eckardt, Asso. Prof. Anita Petterson, Assoc. Prof. Anita Pettersson, and Prof. NG How Yong, and as well as all participants for joining and sharing of idea, knowledge, and friendship in a relatxing environment. And, the most important, I would to sincere and great appreciation to the organizing committee, editors, scientific committee, and reviewers for all their solidity, harmony, and synergy work. We do hope all participants are going to enjoy the conference in terms of both its academic and social atmosphere. Dr. Joni Aldilla Fajri, ST., M. Eng. Chairperson of The 6th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment Yogyakarta, October 15th, 2021 List of Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.

scholarly journals WWR OPTIMIZATION FOR VENTILATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE CONTROL OF TROPICAL DWELLING

Arsitektura ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
FX Teddy Badai Samodra
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Noise Control ◽  
Environmental Noise ◽  
Wind Flow ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Contradictory Behavior

<p class="Abstract"><em>In an urban environment, heat and noise are the most important factors affecting the environment in buildings. This study optimizes the WWR (Window to Wall Ratio) as a compromise of the ventilation design and noise control for the Javanese architecture which is the case study of Eco-tropical built environment. The need for openings area has a contradictory behavior between providing the maximum aperture requirements for the wind flow and the minimum aperture area to reduce environmental noise. The location of this study is in the lowland (Surabaya, 0-50 m above mean sea level) and in the highland (Malang, 440-667 m above mean sea level) as the representatives of the tropical environment. Both cities were chosen because of their cultural and architectural similarities. The results of this study indicate that the WWR range of integration of ventilation design needs and noise control are for lowland / daytime is 0.13-100% (survey standard), 0.13-5.24% (WHO standard); for lowland / night is 0-100% (survey standard) and 0-3.24% (WHO standard). Meanwhile, for highland / daytime, the requirement is 0.24-100% (survey standard) and 0.24-70.48% (WHO standard); and for highland / night is 0-100% (for both WHO standard and survey criteria).</em><em></em></p>

Emplacing Berlin: Digital Itineraries and Short-term Study Abroad in the City

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Apgar
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Term Study ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Short Term Study ◽  
The City

As destination of choice for many short-term study abroad programs, Berlin offers students of German language, culture and history a number of sites richly layered with significance. The complexities of these sites and the competing narratives that surround them are difficult for students to grasp in a condensed period of time. Using approaches from the spatial humanities, this article offers a case study for enhancing student learning through the creation of digital maps and itineraries in a campus-based course for subsequent use during a three-week program in Berlin. In particular, the concept of deep mapping is discussed as a means of augmenting understanding of the city and its history from a narrative across time to a narrative across the physical space of the city. As itineraries, these course-based projects were replicated on site. In moving from the digital environment to the urban landscape, this article concludes by noting meanings uncovered and narratives formed as we moved through the physical space of the city.

On the morphosyntax of synthetic compounds with proper names: A case study on the diachrony of Greek

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
Artemis Alexiadou
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Synthetic Compounds ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Modern Greek

This paper discusses the formation of synthetic compounds with proper names. While these are possible in English, Greek disallows such formations. However, earlier stages of the language allowed such compounds, and in the modern language formations of this type are possible as long as they contain heads that are either bound roots or root- derived nominals of Classical Greek origin. The paper builds on the following ingredients: a) proper names are phrases; b) synthetic compounding in Modern Greek involves incorporation, and thus proper names cannot incorporate; c) by contrast, English synthetic compounds involve phrasal movement, and thus proper names can appear within compounds in this language. It is shown that in earlier Greek, proper names had the same status as their English counterparts, hence the possibility of synthetic compounds with proper names. It is further argued that the formations that involve bound/archaic roots are actually cases of either root compounding or root affixation and not synthetic compounds.

Evaluation of Socio-Economic Conditions of Coldwater Fish Farmers: A Case Study of Sikkim

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-71
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Gini Coefficients ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
The People

ABSTRACT The study analyses the socio-economic status, degree of income inequality and perceived socio-economic conditions of the fish farmers of the four districts of Sikkim. A total sample size of 200 fish farmers was selected from the four districts depending upon the presence of the number of farmers in each district. Purposive random sampling method was used and the results were analysed from descriptive statistics such as frequency count and percentages. The degree of income inequality was analysed through Gini coefficients. The factors that determined the perceived socio-economic living conditions were analysed with a logistic regression model. The socio-economic status of the people was found to be in good condition and there were not many variations among the fish farmers of different districts. Most of the respondents had pucca houses with the combination of firewood and LPG as a source of cooking fuel and also had access to basic amenities like electricity, drinking water and sanitation facilities in the households. The study also found that income inequality was not so severe amongst the fish farmers of the three districts except for the East district which had the strongest income inequality. The per capita income, housing condition and ratio of above primary education to total members had a significant impact on the perceived living conditions of the fish farmers. Keywords

scholarly journals Heritage Buildings Conservation in the Light of Sustainable Built Environment: A Case Study of Few Selected Projects in Samarkand City

2020 ◽  
Vol 495 ◽  
pp. 012034
Author(s):  
Anvar Safarov Normatovich ◽  
Dong Wei ◽  
S G Dalibi ◽  
I I Danja ◽  
A A Mukhtar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Heritage Buildings
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