From the Entrepreneurial University to the Civic University

The chapter aims to investigate the impact of the presence of the university on the perceived quality of life of the host community. To this aim, the authors focused on a specific area, that is the historical town center of Naples (as defined by the UNESCO in the World Heritage List since 1995), where five universities are located. Adopting a qualitative and explorative approach, 25 in-depth interviews have been conducted with local universities' stakeholders and content-analyzed through the software Nvivo 10. Thus, the authors identified precisely the multiplicity of activities through which the presence of the university contributes to the socio-economic and cultural well-being of the community of which it is part, thinking about the dynamics that may occur in the case of an urban-located university. Based on the findings, a conceptual model is proposed that may be further validated with new investigations.

Memories and reflections on the “socialist” urban center

Based on empirical research in Asenovgrad, this paper discusses socially constructed spaces during socialism and how they were used to impose and legitimize power. It proposes alternate perspectives towards socialism and its material culture expressed in the creation of modern architectural ensembles in the town center. Socialist architecture was a power statement which imposed new values and ideas. These buildings were markers of state authority which sent a powerful message for the renewal of society by breaking away from older, pre-socialist traditions. Among the issues examined here is the significance of the urban square and its surrounding buildings for residents of Asenovgrad today; how is the town’s center perceived in the collective memory? The analysis concludes by exploring the relationship between architecture and ideology in the way social reality was constructed, instrumentalised and offering insight into how the socialist regime was legitimized through material culture, artifacts, and buildings.

The landscape design of Karawang Islamic center based on Islamic garden

Karawang is the capital as well as the town center of Karawang Regency. As the capital and the town center, it requires public spaces with functional and aesthetic values that reflect and accommodate the town's social characteristics. As a city where most of the population is Muslim, it requires adequate space for worship and public space. The local government can develop the worship and public space from the existing Islamic Center in the township. Islamic Center Karawang is an Islamic Center that has long been built and is located in the township of Karawang. The Islamic Center Karawang consists of a collection of supporting buildings in various fields and the landscape itself. The landscape at the Islamic Center Karawang requires a good landscape design to accommodate visitors' needs and has a good aesthetic value. This study aims to identify the landscape's character at the Islamic Center Karawang, analyze the potential and constraints on the Islamic Center Karawang landscape, and design the landscape of the Islamic Center Karawang. The concept of Islamic garden is adopted from depicting the beauty of heaven in the Quran to a landscape character. The method used in this research is the method of field activities, which includes direct site surveys, interviews with stakeholders and visitors, and filling out questionnaires to visitors. This study's results are in concept diagrams, schematic designs, and Islamic Center Karawang designs. Concept diagrams include basic concepts, design concepts, and development concepts. The schematic design consists of a block plan and a phased scenario. The design output of the Islamic Center Karawang includes site plan, planting plan, section, detail, and design illustrations. The result is the design of a garden that can be enjoyed optimally by the five senses of humans. It can influence humans and definite sharia rules or boundaries regarding elements, characters, and activities in an Islamic garden.

ASSOCIATIVITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF HASS AVOCADO PRODUCTION CHAINS IN THE HUANCAVELICA REGION, PERU 2003−2019

The objective of the research was to determine the relationship between associativity and the organizational culture of Hass avocado production chains in the Huancavelica Region, Peru in the period 2003–2019. The research is of an applied type, the inductive inferential scientific method was applied. Likewise, the research design used is non-experimental, cross-sectional. A questionnaire was applied to 105 Hass avocado producers from the Huancavelica Region, one of the poorest regions of Peru, in the middle basin of the Mantaro River Valley from the Mariscal Caceres district to the Mantacra town center. In the study, it was found that the associativity environment (ENT) (ASO), based on organizational culture (COR), has a significant influence on the communication dimension (p < 0.05). Regarding support services (SA), has a significant influence on the quality dimension (p < 0.05). Also in relationships (REL), they have a significant influence on the communication and adaptability dimensions (p < 0.05). Finally, in government policies (GP), it has a significant relationship with the communication dimension (p < 0.05). Therefore, these dimensions generate a positive impact on organizational culture.

Urban Segregation in a Nordic Small Town in the Late-Seventeenth Century: Residential Patterns in Sortavala at the Eastern Borderland of the Swedish Realm

The general view of urban segregation in pre-modern towns has been that the wealthy lived near the administrative and economic center(s), while the poor were pushed to the limits of the town. This approach has been questioned by studies proving that urban spaces were socially mixed. This dilemma has been studied here by examining in detail the urban segregation in one small town, Sortavala, at the eastern borderland of the Swedish realm. The analysis shows that the town space was bipolarly segregated. The “gentry,” officeholders and the like, lived near the market square and town hall; the wealthy burghers along the main street. However, even the poorest taxpayers lived among the wealthy and those of high social rank. The segregation was relative: the proportion of the wealthy grew in the grid plan in the town center; the settlements growing “freely” outside the original grid plan were for the poor only.

Study on the Impact of Traffic Accidents in Key Areas of Rural Roads

In recent years, the proportion of rural road fatalities in the country is gradually increasing, among which the traffic safety problems are particularly prominent in the town-rural area and the town-center area. Based on the relevant accident data in Hunan Province in recent years, the chi-square test was conducted to obtain the correlation degree between each risk factor and accident severity based on gender stratification. Then, a binary logistic model was established to obtain the significant factors that affect the accident severity in the town-rural area and the town-center area, respectively. Based on the significant factors, relevant safety improvement measures were proposed for the key areas. The results show that severe accidents were significantly related to single-vehicle factors, motorcycle factors, and intersections factors in the town-rural area. In the town-center area, severe accidents were significantly related to elderly age, single-vehicle factors, and nighttime factors. The study obtained the risk factors in key areas, which can provide a reference for the improvement of traffic safety in key areas of rural roads, to ensure the safety and sustainability of rural traffic.

COVID-19 Social Distance Violation and Face Mask Detection in Workplaces

Social distancing is a suggested arrangement by the World Health Organization (WHO) to limit the spread of COVID-19 in broad daylight places. Most of governments and public wellbeing specialists have set the 2-meter physical removing as a compulsory security measure in retail outlets, schools, and other covered regions. In this exploration, we foster a conventional Deep Neural Network-Based model for mechanized individuals’ identification, following, and between individuals’ distances assessment in the group, utilizing basic CCTV surveillance cameras. The proposed model incorporates a YOLOv4-based system and opposite viewpoint planning for exact individuals’ identification and social removing checking in testing conditions, including individual’s impediment, incomplete perceivability, and lighting varieties. We additionally give an online danger appraisal conspire by factual examination of the Spatio-transient information from the moving directions and the pace of social removing infringement. We distinguish high-hazard zones with the most noteworthy chance of infection spread and diseases. This may assist specialists with updating the design of a public spot or to play it safe activities to relieve high-hazard zones. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is assessed on the Oxford Town Center dataset, with prevalent execution as far as precision and speed contrasted with three bests in class techniques.

Make Art, not Sprawl: Using Form-Based Codes to Create Complete, Compact, and Livable Suburban Communities

North American cities are experiencing rapid rates of urbanization and development, and it has become evident that the conventional Euclidean zoning model has failed to guide growth in a healthy, livable, and sustainable direction. This model, along with existing municipal fiscal policies and social preferences, enables the production of built forms that are conducive to sprawl. This MRP focuses on form-based codes (FBCs), and how this planning tool can be used to help combat sprawl and achieve the successful development of Smart Growth communities within a suburban context. An understanding of the existing literature, best practices, and analysis of the existing built form in the Fleetwood Town Center neighbourhood of the City of Surrey, British Columbia will help to justify the need for a more flexible zoning model. This research has shaped a set of recommendations to the City of Surrey to aid them in the development and implementation of their own FBCs.

Make Art, not Sprawl: Using Form-Based Codes to Create Complete, Compact, and Livable Suburban Communities

North American cities are experiencing rapid rates of urbanization and development, and it has become evident that the conventional Euclidean zoning model has failed to guide growth in a healthy, livable, and sustainable direction. This model, along with existing municipal fiscal policies and social preferences, enables the production of built forms that are conducive to sprawl. This MRP focuses on form-based codes (FBCs), and how this planning tool can be used to help combat sprawl and achieve the successful development of Smart Growth communities within a suburban context. An understanding of the existing literature, best practices, and analysis of the existing built form in the Fleetwood Town Center neighbourhood of the City of Surrey, British Columbia will help to justify the need for a more flexible zoning model. This research has shaped a set of recommendations to the City of Surrey to aid them in the development and implementation of their own FBCs.

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Inherent Translanguaging in the Linguistic Landscape of Sarajevo

Language in the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe has a complex and turbulent history, acutely embodied in the tripartite and trilingual state of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in which Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs all make claim to their own mutually-intelligible varieties of local “languages”. This study utilizes a linguistic landscape methodology to consider language use in Sarajevo, the capital of BiH, approximately 20 years after a brutal war that led to the establishment of the country. Data originate from three municipalities within the Sarajevo Canton – namely, Old Town, Center, and Ilidža – because of their representation of the region’s diversity and history. Signs were classified according to the three primary language varieties, i.e., Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian; BCS, representing a common core among the three varieties, as well as English, other languages, and mixed languages. The application of BCS uniquely positions the present research in comparison to other studies of language use in the region and allows for a more nuanced, less politically and ethnolinguistically fraught analysis of the communicative tendencies of users. More specifically, data indicate that actors in the linguistic landscape transcend the boundaries of their national, ethnic, and religious identities by tending towards the more neutral BCS, suggesting an orientation towards more translingual dispositions than previous variety-bound approaches have indicated. Thus, instead of the divisiveness of linguistic identity politics, the linguistic landscape of Sarajevo indicates a tendency toward inclusion and linguistic egalitarianism.