Download or read book Chronocity written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Alinea Editrice. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital Technology Meeting Cultural Landscape written by Babalis, Dimitra and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike museum exhibitions, being organised and structured, archaeological sites enable visitors to associate more freely with the physical environment, often of outstanding natural beauty. Presently, mobile and augmented-reality based applications for archaeological guided tours give priority to visual information, limiting the possible references to the ways the site is associated to its natural surroundings. This book presents InterArch, a design research project based on digital representation, supporting Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR) technology. This pilot digital application, developed for the archaeological site of Ancient Messene in Greece to be implemented for visitors on site, is suitable even for other archaeological sites and cultural environments.
Download or read book Heritage Open Space in Transformation written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2018 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban heritage in times of uncertainty written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should designers respond to urban uncertainty? How can we ensure our urban heritage is protected against urban risks and climate change? How can we create places that increase urban quality, socialisation, equity and opportunities for change minimising environmental damages? This volume addresses current trends and challenges, that explore on how we transform our urban heritage in ways which increase urban resilience embracing innovation and technology. Part one provides a critical view in driving forward a new conception of urban transformation that should respond to current concerns around economic, social and urban change. Part two underscores the importance of the current perception of urban and architectural design that can take into consideration climate change.
Download or read book Urban waterfronts and cultural heritage written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches to urban waterfront conservation have been much debated in recent decades. Early schemes focused on leisure and commercial exploitation, more recently greater attention has been paid to environmental and ecological conditions, historic preservation and human well-being. But how do we balance these competing interests and yet ensure sustainable change, preserve identity and yet allow for new development? And how do we involve local people? This book aims to provide some answers to these important questions. The book is divided into three parts: Part One is an overview for regeneration and awareness of historic waterfronts. Part Two argues for the sustainable reuse of important sites to preserve their special identity. Part Three shows the importance of introducing young researchers to the complexities of designing waterfronts for sustainable lifestyles.
Download or read book Public Open Space in Transition for health and well being written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which open spaces and combinations of green-blue infrastructure provide optimum wellbeing benefits? How we do ensure these benefits are available to all? Can we reduce health and well-being inequalities through sensible design? The volume focuses on specific studies in urban design, environmental psychology and public health combining ‘green’ spaces with ‘green-blue’ infrastructures, active mobility and facilities, showing a series of criteria necessary to ensure that ‘green-blue’ space can work optimally. The book is divided in two parts: Part one goes on to demonstrate how design along waterfronts can contribute to support the well-being of people and encourage urban quality. Part two identifies design concepts for health and well-being in urban spaces.
Download or read book The Rehabilitation and Enhancement of Small Municipalities written by Teresa Colletta and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume deals with the recovery and enhancement of minor centers, especially under today’s pandemic crisis, when a spontaneous movement from larger cities towards neighboring occurs. These small towns are a great resource of the Mediterranean Cultural Heritage, tangible and intangible, that must be safeguarded and re-evaluated. This volume collects the essays of the members of the Mediterranean CIVVIH Sub-committee presented within the 2021 Webinar, as a comparison between different minor contexts throughout the EU countries around the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Basin. Promoting participation in new urban models seems to be a good opportunity for the revival of the abandoned villages.
Download or read book Approaching the integrative city written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book debates on transformation of urban spaces considering heritage value, diversity and sustainability issues. It explains complexity and methodology to re-think and re-vitalise urban spaces in sensitive urban environments. Teamwork scientific findings explore evolving ways of innovative urban space transformation in different European contexts. In the first part it examines the reading and designing of historic environment in terms of character, attractiveness, functionality and sustainability of public space and its re-definition for urban quality, wellbeing and social cohesion. In the second part it presents issues on placemaking within sustainable design. In the third part it develops a dynamic transformative process in designing urban vitality of waterfronts, essential for everyday life.
Download or read book Urban Heritage and Climate Change written by Babalis, Dimitra and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dealing with climate change and the new trends to reduce urban risks in historic cities. How we cope with urban changes in historic cities? To respond significantly to the current scenarios, sustainable and resilient planning and design must lead positively to these changes. At the same time, protection, and revitalization of ′Urban Heritage′ of outstanding value should be emphasized on properly climate change adaptation methods. To link Urban Greening with Urban Design and to help maximize not only the aesthetic of the Historic City but also the functionality and quality of an urban space, Urban Green Infrastructure must be considered to support both long-term and short-term sustainability and environmental resilience goals as well.
Download or read book Waterfront urban space written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores potentialities and emerging issues to strategies and waterside planning and design, developing research results and detailed cases of interest in response to city change, to promote sustainable development in a variety of ways. It seeks to include some key waterfront matters in linking new spatial patterns to social dynamics and climate change, for future practice. The book is structuring into two parts: The first one – ‘Advancing Riverfront Transformation’ – examines proposals on urban waterfronts and relations between urban spaces and social dynamics to revitalise and re-appropriate urban environment with sustainable design solutions. The second one – ‘Outlining Blue-Green Opportunities’ – develops proposals on waterfront urban spaces and places with promotion of sociability and enjoyment, integrating cultural and economic values, health and wellbeing.
Download or read book Pursuing on research items written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has Covid-19 changed society and ways to live urban environment? How has it changed the understanding of urban space and urban lifestyles? How has it changed education and research and how pre-Covid research goals could be put under discussion in the post-Covid City? The book illustrates research fundings and investigations on how Covid-19 contingency has changed nowadays society and the ways we make research. The book is divided in three parts: Part One is trying to give some answers on how research priorities have been changed during the lockdown and how pre-Covid research goals could be put under discussion within the post-Covid City. Part Two explores contemporary attitudes regarding theoretical and practice-based research in urbanism and architecture. Part Three is dealing with Higher Education.
Download or read book Nature City written by Babalis, Dimitra and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the expression of seven-year scientific findings built within the INTEGRO UAD International Meetings convened at the University of Florence while the development of the collection of chapters reflects interpretations of the most pressing issues and necessary perspectives required to frame changes in planning and design. In putting together this collection, it is aimed to better understand questions, prospects, reflections and rules on improving urban strategies and tactics in balancing the needs of nature and the built form to deliver a place. Discussions, debates, and stated considerations can now inspire to give a formal and comprehensive international attention to the transformation of urban heritage including ecological and sustainable design knowledge.
Download or read book Computational Life Sciences written by Jens Dörpinghaus and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-04 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book broadly covers the given spectrum of disciplines in Computational Life Sciences, transforming it into a strong helping hand for teachers, students, practitioners and researchers. In Life Sciences, problem-solving and data analysis often depend on biological expertise combined with technical skills in order to generate, manage and efficiently analyse big data. These technical skills can easily be enhanced by good theoretical foundations, developed from well-chosen practical examples and inspiring new strategies. This is the innovative approach of Computational Life Sciences-Data Engineering and Data Mining for Life Sciences: We present basic concepts, advanced topics and emerging technologies, introduce algorithm design and programming principles, address data mining and knowledge discovery as well as applications arising from real projects. Chapters are largely independent and often flanked by illustrative examples and practical advise.
Download or read book Thresholds in Architectural Education written by Tayyibe Nur Caglar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inner Clock written by Lynne Peeples and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the groundbreaking science of circadian rhythms can help you sleep better, feel happier, and improve your overall health Your body contains a symphony of tiny timepieces, synchronized to the sun and subtle signals in your environment and behavior. But modern insults like artificial light, contrived time zones, and late-night meals can wreak havoc on your internal clocks. Armed with advances in biology and technology, a circadian renaissance is reclaiming those lost rhythms. The Inner Clock explores the emerging science and its transformative applications: How could taking a walk in the morning and going to bed at the same time each night keep your body in sync? Why are some doctors prescribing treatments at specific times of day? And how might a better understanding of our circadian rhythms improve educational outcomes, optimize sports performance, and support the longevity of our planet? Science journalist Lynne Peeples seeks out the scientists, astronauts, athletes, and patients at the forefront of a growing movement. Along the way, she sleeps in a Cold War-era bunker, chases the midnight sun, spits into test tubes, and wears high-tech light sensors to decipher what makes our internal clocks tick and how we can reset them for the better.
Download or read book Sustainability of Urban Freight Transport written by Henricus Joannes Quak and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although our urbanized civilization requires freight transport in order to sustain it, urban freight transport is especially recognized for its unsustainable impacts. To reduce the unsustainable impacts of urban freight transport, many local governments develop policies that focus sometimes more on banning or restricting urban transport than on making it more sustainable. In the first part of this thesis we develop a framework to structure the urban freight transport field and to review urban fraight transport sustainability initiatives. The number of initiatives that is succesfully implemented in practice turns out to be quite low. In the review and the following analysis, we try to find the barriers for succesful implementation of the initiatives in practice. In the seond part we examine the impacts of the most commonly used local sustainability policies. Six time-window scenarios and their impacts on the economical, environmental and social sustainability are examined based on a multiple case study. Time-window regulations increase both the environmental and distribution costs. Retail chains are affected differently by time-window pressure and vehicle restrictions due to differences in their logical concept. based on an experiment we examine the effects of retailers' logical decisions in combination with local sustainability policies. Next, we examine the degree to which retailers are able te deal with problems caused by time-windows. Combining the primary and secondary distribution, i.e. factory gate pricing, results in more sustainable distribution operations for the retailer and in less sensivity towards time-window regulations.
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