“Environmental movement” in architecture and related areas

The concept of “environmental approach” in the theory of architecture, urban planning and design is usually used in the singular, but its content is often interpreted in different ways. Basing on the author’s concept of the “circle of environmental knowledge” and conceptual and terminological analysis of texts with an environmental focus, the author proves the necessity to speak about multiplicity of environmental approaches and considers the content and specific characteristics of seven enclaves of environmental knowledge and practice. The author describes the matter of each of them, connections with segments of environmental knowledge, and the design strategies under development. Due to the fact that the “design approach” has lost its singularity and ability to characterize the whole environment-oriented area of design, the usefulness of another umbrella concept for this is shown. The author demonstrates the necessity to choose the environmental “movement” as a concept that has a high degree of universality and tradition to be used in architecture to identify large fragments.

Analysis of Medicinal Plants Cultivation in Ukraine on Sustainable Development Principles

Medicinal plants have always served people, primarily for the treatment of various diseases. In parallel with the development of human civilization, medicinal herb growth is evolving simultaneously. First of all, it involves the cultivation of medicinal plants, which is socially significant, economically viable, and export-oriented area of production world over. However, in some countries, particularly in Ukraine, this industry is in its infancy and needs consistent action for its development. This article reveals the socio-economic significance of medicinal plants being grown, some advantages and disadvantages of cultivated medicinal plants compared to wild relatives, the main restraining factors of its development, and comparison of key problems and opportunities for effective development of the industry in the future in Ukraine through using SWOT analysis. In particular, the article develops a scale for determining the levels of strengths and weaknesses, and a scale for assessing the importance of external opportunities and threats. It also presents a strengths and weaknesses of medicinal plants in Ukraine, and potential external opportunities and threats.

Experiment in a Box (XB): An Interactive Technology Framework for Sustainable Health Practices

This paper presents the Experiment in a Box (XB) framework to support interactive technology design for building health skills. The XB provides a suite of experiments—time-limited, loosely structured evaluations of health heuristics for a user-as-experimenter to select from and then test in order to determine that heuristic’s efficacy, and to explore how it might be incorporated into the person’s life and when necessary, to support their health and wellbeing. The approach leverages self-determination theory to support user autonomy and competence to build actionable, personal health knowledge skills and practice (KSP). In the three studies of XB presented, we show that with even the short engagement of an XB experiment, participants develop health practices from the interventions that are still in use long after the intervention is finished. To situate the XB approach relative to other work around health practices in HCI in particular, we contribute two design continua for this design space: insourcing to outsourcing and habits to heuristics. From this analysis, we demonstrate that XB is situated in a largely under-explored area for interactive health interventions: the insourcing and heuristic oriented area of the design space. Overall, the work offers a new scaffolding, the XB Framework, to instantiate time-limited interactive technology interventions to support building KSP that can thrive in that person, significantly both post-interventions, and independent of that technology.

AREA DEVELOPMENT PLAN TOD/TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT AT LRT CIBUBUR STATION

<p>Cibubur LRT Station is an LRT Station in Depok City which is located on Taman Bunga street, Harjamukti, Cimanggis district, Depok City, West Java 16454, to be precise next to the Jagorawi toll road. The concept of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is a spatial engineering approach that focuses its development around transit points. The space developed in a transit-oriented area has the characteristics of high density, various mixes (updates) and a design area that is friendly to pedestrians and bicycle users. The purpose of this study was to analyze the designation of mixed land according to the roles and functions of the TOD and to predict the amount of generated traffic pull from and to the TOD area development location. In knowing the land use of the TOD transit area at the Cibubur LRT station, it was carried out by means of an analysis of the designation of the main and supporting functions of the TOD, after data output was already there compared to the standard transit node, with standard pedestrian facilities, TOD standard from ITDP and to analyze the generation and pulls in the TOD Cibubur area using the ITE-9th table. The results of the KDB value obtained throughout the building are 70% of the maximum land cover (Land Converage) TOD of the city service sub-center of 70% which is contained in the technical criteria for TOD development based on the type of TOD and the total KDB figure is 5.00 from a maximum number of 3.0 to 5.0. and for the generated value obtained in the land use of the TOD Cibubur area of 20,987 trips / hour in the morning (AM), and at night of 38,498 trips / hour.</p>

TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT (TOD) IN KAWASAN BAKRIE NIRWANA RESIDENCE MULYA HARJA

<p>The regional development plan and integrated transportation network in the city of Bogor, especially in the Bogor Nirwana Residence Mulya Harja area, requires a plan for determining transit-based movements. The concept of transit oriented development (TOD) is a spatial engineering approach that focuses its development around transit points. The space developed in a transit-oriented area has the characteristics of high density, various mixes (updates) and a design area that is friendly to pedestrians and bicycle users. As for anticipating the emergence of transportation problems in the development of the TOD area, a study is carried out on the analysis of potential generation and attraction to find out how much movement is entering a zone or leaving a zone.to predict the amount of traffic pull generation to and from the TOD area development location. Data collection techniques include existing observations, traffic surveys and document review. The analysis of land use designation refers to the standards and regulations related to the development of transit-oriented areas, while the calculation of the generation of attraction uses the coefficient ofITE (Institute Transportation Engineers) Generation 9th. The results of the research are the level of conformity of the Basic Building Coefficient (KDB), Building Floor Coefficient (KLB) and Green Base Coefficient (KDH) on land use designation on the application of the TOD concept in the BNR area. The results were KDB with a preset rate of 64%, KLB with a percentage rate of 3.28 and KDH of 10%. In the calculation results of the movement generation obtained in the study area with a total of 2,118 (Trips / Hour), while for the results of the movement of the movement obtained in the study area with a total of 31,780 (trips/hour).</p>

Surface fractures and deformation of the magnitude 5.6 earthquake near Reykjavík on 20 October 2020

&lt;p&gt;On 20 October 2020, Reykjav&amp;#237;k was rocked by the largest earthquake in southwest Iceland in over a decade when a magnitude 5.6 event occurred only 25 km from the city. The earthquake caused movement on multiple surface fractures, distributed over an 8-km-long north-south oriented area, indicating the location of the underlaying right-lateral strike-slip fault rupture. We mapped the coseismic surface fractures and deformation using Sentinel-1 and TerraSAR-X InSAR data, selecting with a new method the best pre- and post-earthquake SAR scenes from analyzing the tropospheric signals on each SAR image. This method does not require masking out deformed areas when determining the InSAR covariance structure and thus yields better earthquake source estimations. As the InSAR data are primarily sensitive to east-west and vertical displacements, we additionally used split-beam interferometry to obtain more information about north-south displacements. For this, we used burst-overlap interferometry (BOI), in the case of Sentinel-1 data, and multiple-aperture interferometry (MAI) on the TerraSAR-X data. Together with the standard InSAR data, we estimated the full 3D coseismic surface displacement field of the earthquake. The results show that most of the fractures had limited surface offsets, apart from a 2-3 km long north-south trending segment just north of the epicenter that was right-laterally offset by about 15 cm. Source modeling of the earthquake shows that the deformation is consistent with a near vertical north-south striking fault with up to ~30 cm of slip located at roughly 3 km depth below the surface. The estimated geodetic moment of the model amounts to a magnitude 5.6 earthquake, consistent with seismological estimates. Most of the modeled fault slip and mapped surface fractures are located north of the earthquake epicenter, indicating that the earthquake ruptured unilaterally from south to north, which agrees with the more severe surface effects and shaking reported from near the northern end of the earthquake rupture.&lt;/p&gt;

Intelligent Health Services Based on Biomedical Smart Sensors

Health services can be improved by means of intelligent techniques that handle efficiently massive volumes of data collected from biomedical variables. Nowadays, these services are not only oriented to disease diagnosis and prevention, but wellness too. Advanced technologies and last trends in computing, internet of things, sensors, and data science are driving the development of new systems and applications in the area of intelligent health services based on biomedical smart sensors that deserve to be known. Through five research articles and a review, this Special Issue provides the opportunity to obtain a representative view of the potential of these technologies when applied to such a human welfare-oriented area.

Evaluating the City Image of Istanbul Historic Peninsula Through Academicians’ Perspective

Urban studies are crucial to comprehend an environment with physical, social and psychological structures. There is no doubt that environmental psychology studies are important to this topic. This is why this research aims at presenting the city image of Istanbul Historic Peninsula through academicians’ perspective. The study analyzes the relationships among safe, unsafe, likeable, unlikeable, preferable and unpreferable urban elements, and concludes a general city image of the research area. We conducted 32 surveys with other scholars and analyzed the surveys via MAXQDA 2018 Analytics Pro program. To obtain reliable results, the Kuckartz–Rädikers zeta similarity analysis was conducted and the similarity value was obtained as “0.86”. The results show that the landmarks and districts are dominant in verbal maps. As for hand-drawn maps, landmarks and urban nodes are more dominant than other elements. Moreover, there are similarities between unsafe and unlikeable elements, and between likeable and safe elements. In conclusion, the urban legibility and image are intensively dominant in the eastern side of the research area (Atatürk Boulevard-oriented area) because of negative psychological boundaries.