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Lunar Bases on Earth: Intersections and Repetitions
This chapter focuses on the concepts of modularity and standardisation in relation to the design of Binishells. It begins by illustrating projects in...
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The emerging trend of converting abandoned elevated infrastructure into linear parks: state of the arts and categories of intervention
This study focuses on converting abandoned elevated transportation infrastructure into high-quality, pedestrian-oriented public spaces. To discuss...
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Using urban pasts to speak to urban presents in the Anthropocene
With more people now living in urban areas than outside of them, urbanism is becoming an increasingly important socioeconomic and ecological arena...
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Significance of Digital Landscape Architecture
The concept of digital landscape architecture is deeply rooted in the dual attributes of science and art in landscape architecture. Science is well...
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Parametric design and modular construction of a large additive-manufactured hypar shell structure
Despite recent advances in additive manufacturing technologies, challenges remain to build 3D-printed structures at the architectural scale due to...
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The Dangerous Adventure of Designing Bubbles
Bubbles are concretisations of temporary spaces. On the one hand, the bubble constitutes a structural, inflatable element characterised by a...
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A 30-year controversy over the Shanghai East China Electric Power Building: the creation and conservation of late 20th century Chinese architectural heritage*
The Shanghai East China Electric Power Building, which was completed in 1988, is widely accepted as one of the first postmodern high-rise buildings...
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Can urban design be a science for health studies?
Urban design is an interdisciplinary discipline integrating elements of science and art, depending on each discipline being researched or practiced....
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A New Archetypal Hut in Structural Art
This chapter constructs a theoretical narrative through which the Binishell can be interpreted as a new archetypal hut in structural art. The...
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Capitalist Visuality: Branding, Architecture, and Its Visual Reproduction. A Case Study in the City of Porto
This chapter examines the promotional image of the city of Porto, created and disseminated in the last decades, as a means through which core...
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Un-learning/Re-learning: Towards Pluriversal Co-design
China’s hyper-speed modernisation process generates complex problems demanding new approaches to designing equitable, integrated, liveable, urban and...
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Space-Environment Commons: From Big Data Survey to AI, to a Post-capitalist Blockchain Zoning Platform
One of the current challenges of how cities grow is how reality is measured and validated. Late Capitalism measures and validates reality through...
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Historical imaginaries, historic urban branding, and the local state in China: rejuvenation discourse, manufactured heritage and simulacrascapes
This intervention examines the extant literature on historical imaginaries and historic urban branding in China. It suggests that while research in...
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Influences of urban design on perceived social attributes and quality of life: a comparative study in two English neighbourhoods
Although a well-planned and well-designed neighbourhood might seem essential for the social life and satisfaction of the residents of a...
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Urban Design
The layer method as a systematic approach to urban design is based on the complex understanding of urban life described by Jane Jacobs. The urban...
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Why Resilient Communities Need Trauma-Informed Care the Case for Trauma-Informed Design for Resilient Cities
Resilient communities need to help build the resilience of their most vulnerable members. Organizations providing support services are integral to...
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Systems: Construction of a Utopia
This chapter has two parts. The first part, “Atlas of a utopia”, is dedicated to constructing an atlas of works by a small group of thinkers and...
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The Yangtze River Delta and the Discovery of a Third Space
The first part, on the desakota in the Yangtze River Delta: a process of urbanization, presents the consistent process of dispersed urbanization with...