decisions in a city - settingpolicies for the management of the community, directing hard and soft infrastructureinvestments and establishing a city's budget; but one of most important issues dictating how these investments will be paid for and where they will be located, is dependent on zoning....
Gated storm-surge barriers or tide gates are being built across estuaries or their inlets so they can be closed off during storm-surge events. Some examples includebarriers for New Orleans;London;Venice, Italy; andthe Netherlands. Such barriers are increasingly being proposed alongside levee systems...
doi:10.1111/geoj.12212Phil HubbardDepartment of Geography King's College London London UKJason PriorInstitute for Sustainable Futures University of Technology Sydney Ultimo NSW AustraliaJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdGeographical Journal
(b) Illustration of street-level, elevated, and underground Metro line designs used in Mexico City. (c) Damaged segments and stations of the Metro system (as described in Supplementary TableS1online) overlaying the city’s official geotechnical zoning7. White arrows indicate clusters of localized ...
South Africa is an intriguing case because of the social and political imperative to integrate the segregated, sprawling structure of cities, given the history of racial discrimination and regimented land-use zoning. Under apartheid, the central cities had robust economies reserved for ‘white’ busin...
We propose a mathematical framework for developing social-choice games that are designed to mediate decision-making processes for city planning, urban area redevelopment, and architectural configuration of urban housing complexes. The proposed framework
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The seismic refraction technique has demonstrated its efficiency as a cost-effective geophysical approach for bedrock investigation, which is very important for major construction projects. In the southern part of New Qena City, in the Eastern Desert of
City the short for City of London: the original settlement of London on the N bank of the Thames; a municipality governed by the Lord Mayor and Corporation. Resident pop.: 7186 (2001) Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 ...
city planning- determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community town planning,urban planning planning- the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise zoning- dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for diff...