urban landscapes Articles
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Matucana 100 Architectural Exhibit (Santiago, Chile) case study
Background: For the first time, Chile is developing a program to reach young American architecture: PAL (Programme for Latin American Architecture). This program, on an annual basis, is an active platform to generate new opportunities for emerging and talented architects. The first edition, held at the Matucana facilities 100 (M100), only featured Chilean National Architects. Technical ...
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The threat of chain stores to the character of an historic city's main street
This paper looks at the main street of an historic tourism city, King Street, Charleston, South Carolina that in recent years has seen a steady transition in its tenant mix; from one historically populated by local merchants, to one that today 'boasts' of such merchants as Saks Fifth Avenue, Victoria's Secret and Banana Republic, among many other national and international brand outlets. The ...
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Distribution of neotropical migratory bird species across an urbanizing landscape
Urbanization leads to long-term modification of landscapes by habitat loss, fragmentation, and the creation of new habitats. Species’ distributions respond to these modifications of habitat availability, but the combination of parameters and scale at which habitat alteration most strongly influences species distributions is poorly understood. We evaluated responses of neotropical migratory birds, ...
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Forests, health and climate change
Forests are essential to our survival and well-being. Forests clean our air, our water, our soil and they regulate our climate, amongst many other things. Trees and forests are not always associated with urban landscapes. However, there too they provide invaluable, often invisible, services. Simply by acting as 'green oasis' in our concrete jungles, they offer recreation and health services for ...
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Where Will The Cardboard Boxes End Up In The Future Urban Landscape?
The strong development of the e-commerce sector changes the urban environment and redraws the map of the logistics landscape. Vast distribution centers, urban distribution centers within the city limits, shops in the city center, and facility managers in residential buildings all have to deal with various volumes of discarded packaging material, mainly cardboard boxes, but waste can be turned ...
By Orwak AB
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Help Stop Pollution: Tree Spades and Unpolluted Urban Areas
The existence of human is facing threatened. To create a pollution-free liveable climate, transplantation and incrementation of trees is a major remedy. But, how to get this remedy efficient, easy and shor? It is “tree spade”. The tree spades can make this crucial job easyer to be done. So, as the utility of trees is increasing, the necessity of tree spade is also rising ...
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The changing focus of England?s Community Forest programme and its use of a green infrastructure approach to multi-functional landscape planning
The role of England?s Community Forest programme has constantly diversified since its creation in 1990. Over the last decade, its role has extended from urban foresters to providers of multi-functional and connected spaces around post-industrial cities. The development of such a key role has allowed each community forest to influence the contemporary debates relating to green infrastructure. ...
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Tree Spade Design: the connection with Landscape.
Trees are one of the most important plants in a landscape design. Tree spade is the latest equipment for mass-cultivation in nurseries, for transplantation and production your landscaping dream successful with with the best possible practice. The tree spade machines, which blades are operated by hydraulic systems, are moved by different vehicle like tractors, excavators, skid steers, back-hoe ...
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