Academic literature on the topic 'Cambridge'

As a contribution to the history of Town and Country Planning this work shows how the Cambridge Preservation Society came to be instrumental in the formulation of a policy of containment for the city which led to the creation of the city's green belt. In doing so it describes how the Town Planning system developed in the 1930s and 1940s in relation to an historic town and how that system was manipulated by a private but influential group of individuals who had come together to preserve their local environment. The origins of the society are traced from the individuals who had campaigned for the drawing up of a regional plan to control indiscriminate building development on the fringes of the town (as it then was). The society was formed in 1928 with an Executive Committee drawn from leading members of Cambridge University and from the town. The work of the society is described, beginning with the purchase of open land on the outskirts of Cambridge to preserve it from building development and the purchase of restrictive covenants ("sterilisation") from the owners of other land nearby to the same end. The evolution of each of the milestones in the history of the planning of Cambridge and its hinterland is described, beginning with the Cambridgeshire Regional Planning Report (the "Davidge Report") of 1934 and including the pre-Second World War Cambridge & District Town Planning Scheme, the 1950 Holford Report on Cambridge and the first Cambridgeshire Development Plan of 1952. The society took part in each of these, consistently promoting the preservation of the character and setting of Cambridge as the 'only true university town in England.' The main aim of the society was achieved with the establishment of the Cambridge Green Belt, first proposed in 1958 but not formally approved until 1992. The development of that green belt over that period is described. The circumstances of the purchase by the society of the Wandlebury Estate on the summit of the Gog Magog Hills south east of Cambridge are described. The estate is now maintained by the society as a public country park.

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.<br>Title as it appears in the June, 1992 MIT Graduate List: Protection or promiscuity--a survey of condom distribution in Cambrdige Rindge and Latin School.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-47).<br>by Sallie Ellen Israelit.<br>M.C.P.

Práctica Supervisada (IC)--FCEFN-UNC, 2014<br>Analiza una nueva forma de llevar a cabo los trabajos relacionados con la ingeniería y arquitectura. Consiste en una herramienta llamada BIM (Building Informatión Modeling) o en castellano, Modelado de información para la Edificación. Conforma el modelo BIM del edificio en cuestión, aplicarlo al producto del cliente, y hallar la solución más eficiente y adecuada para facilitar la instalación de este producto

Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-44).<br>When architects talk of 'smart buildings' they are usually referring to the same old ones with the addition of simple prosthetics such as light sensors and small electric motors. Their smartness is invariably limited to the smartness of the trickster. I have sought to develop a strategy which traces a line between the ideal and the pragmatic; it points towards an alternative morphology where the result is not necessarily a discrete zoning of functions, nor prescription of form, but would allow for and support a flexible, dynamic organization that is responsive to the fluctuating energies of technology in space. The complex is motivated by the need to install into the American landscape new attitudes towards study, leisure, and nature. It provides to both the student and the community with spaces that are optimized for disseminating information; these shifting interior landscapes act as parallel horizons, allowing flexible walls, spaces, and rooms to be formed and transformed by different media, as well as the space's intended function. The architectural possibility is achieved by the use of gantries, ramps, and an open plan, all structured through activities that are not restricted by past programmatic conventions.<br>by Paul Hyun Kim.<br>M.Arch.

Local Area Networks (LAN) are destined to play a rapidly increasing part in the transmission and distribution of a wide range of information, and this thesis describes the study of the problems concerning the transmission of coloured images over a particu1ar network, the Cambridge Ring. A colour image station has been developed for the use on the Cambridge Ring. It provides two main services: a high resolution freeze frame transmission and a medium resolution slow-scan image transmission.