Riccardo Scalenghe, Franco Ajmone Marsan, in Landscape and Urban Planning, 2009 Soils perform a number of crucial functions which make them environmentally, economically and socially important. Which soil functions can be distinguished? The production, the carrier, the filter, the resource, the habita...
Urban expansion in advanced countries is the result of inherent transformations in settlement forms and socioeconomic functions leading to new metropolitan configurations. Assessing latent shifts from mono-centric structures to more fragmented, low-density and spatially-decentralized models was complicated by...
use of water from the basin, institute programs to prevent pollution, provide recreation facilities, transmit and sellhydroelectric power, and provide watershed management. Cities in the United States and Canada operate dozens of urban transit systems, hundreds of municipal gas utilities, and thousands...
aThis urban imperative is to be rammed into, of all places, the most isolated crook of the meandering river, into the land around the Reichstag, weighed down by an excess of bulky functions, where city and park have fallen fallow. 这都市命令将被猛撞入,所有地方,蜿蜒地流的河的被隔绝的弯曲...
aUrban form plays an important role in and to some extent may determine urban development and landscape planning and design, resulting in different layouts and functions of UGS. Lynch (196141) distinguished five basic patterns of metropolitan settlement: sprawl, galaxy, compact, star, and ring. Us...
The results of analysis of factor importance have showed that elevation (topography map scale: 1:25,000), distance to roads, and distance to rivers are the most important factors in the occurrence of landslides. The susceptibility model of landslides indicates an excellent accuracy, i.e., the ...
Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they are major drivers of environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, they are especially vulnerable to these changes owing to the concentration of population and their expos
Self paid partial card settlement Mao Yu, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, said on the interview with Xinhua net that the Beijing social security card is expected to open its financial function next year. At present, when people use social security cards, they still need...
Lian Yuming, head of the International Institute for Urban Development in Beijing said by moving these non-essential functions out of Beijing, the capital will be able to adjust and optimize its industrial and urban structures. "In this way, the space, industry and the function of the municipal...
And/or plastic hinges at the base of up to 20% of the columns. And/or relevant absolute settlement of the footings—i.e. greater than 20 cm. And/or relevant relative settlement of the footings—i.e. greater than 0.5% of L, with L = distance between the columns. Building’s ...