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Hall, Stephen, John Mawson, and Bert Nicholson. "City Pride: The Birmingham experience." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 10, no. 2 (1995): 108–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690949508726271.

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James, Peter. "Ethnographic images Birmingham City Library." History of Photography 21, no. 1 (1997): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03087298.1997.10443721.

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JONES, PHIL. "The suburban high flat in the post-war reconstruction of Birmingham, 1945–71." Urban History 32, no. 2 (2005): 308–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926805003020.

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Between 1950 and 1971 Birmingham City Council built 464 housing blocks of five or more storeys. The city pursued parallel programmes of building high-rise flats both in the central areas on slum cleared land and in its suburbs on greenfield sites. Examining Birmingham's post-war suburban housing programme, this article suggests that the use of high-rise in suburban areas represented an important change in the nature of British cities, both in the use of a particular building type on the urban fringe and also in the location of high-density workers' housing far outside of the city core.

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Hernandez-Munoz, Luis, Gerald Feldman, Vahid Javidroozi, Annette C. King, and Raj Mack. "Transforming Birmingham City with Smart Applications." International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications 4, no. 2 (2016): 16–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcssa.2016070102.

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Since the amount of people living in cities is expected to increase to 70% by 2050, cities will face many social and urbanisation challenges, and they will need to operate with reduced budgets and limited number of staff. The productivity of computers offers means to address city challenges and do more with less. In this paper, two Smart City projects carried out in Birmingham UK are presented. Firstly, in the Innovation Engine project, conceptual graphs were used to translate innovation experts' ideas into the specification of an open innovation model that may address the needs of large organisations with the capabilities of SMEs and citizens. Secondly, we present results of the pilot evaluation of the Digital Log Book, a smart web portal that enables citizens to access a whole range of public and private services including social housing, universal job match and jobseeker's allowance benefits. We can conclude that smart applications can be very useful to produce better public services and to support cities in the co-creation of new tools that empower citizens and organisations.

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Cooper, David. "Birmingham Science City opportunities for all." Materials Today 13, no. 6 (2010): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1369-7021(10)70092-4.

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Kennedy, Randall. "Walker v City of Birmingham Revisited." Supreme Court Review 2017, no. 1 (2018): 313–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/697526.

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Padjasek, Barbara. "Organist to the City of Birmingham." Musical Times 130, no. 1752 (1989): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/966384.

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Larkham, Peter J. "Replanning post-war Birmingham." Architectura 46, no. 1 (2016): 2–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/atc-2016-0002.

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AbstractThe problems and opportunities of post-war reconstruction in the UK are well demonstrated by the city of Birmingham, although what happened there is hardly typical of the country overall. The city was badly bombed, although damage was diffuse. Unusually, no formal ›reconstruction plan‹ was produced because city managers distrusted ›big plans‹, and because there were existing slum clearance plans and ring road aspirations. A new ring road and precinct developments dominated the rebuilt city centre, though the development process was slow and generated very mixed public responses. The architectural and urban forms created were also mixed, but concrete and brutalism reshaped the city’s image. Some of the buildings have not lasted well and were redeveloped after relatively short lives, and the technocentric, car-dominated approach has also failed, with sections of ring road also being redeveloped. This paper demonstrates that even a determined, single-minded approach to reconstruction takes decades to implement; and that changes in fashion and society may very quickly render that reconstruction obsolete

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Fauzan, Indra, and Zakaria Zakaria. "POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE COMMUNITY IN PEMATANGSIANTAR CITY (CASE STUDY OF THE BIRMINGHAM SMALL ARM OWNER MOTORCYCLE SIANTAR (BOM’S) COMMUNITY IN PEMATANGSIANTAR CITY IN SUMATERA UTARA GOVERNOR’S ELECTION IN 2018 AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2019." International Journal of Law, Government and Communication 6, no. 22 (2021): 276–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijlgc.6220026.

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The political culture of the community can be seen from the symbols that are used and the actions of the community. The purpose of this study is to describe the Political Culture of the Birmingham Owner Motorcycle Siantar (BOM'S) Community, which accommodates the owners of Birmingham Small Arm (BSA) motorbikes and Siantar’s Pedicabs using Birmingham Small Arm (BSA) motorbikes in the 2018 Sumatra Utara Governor’s Election and the 2019 Presidential Election. The research method uses a qualitative approach with descriptive type, the research location is in Pematangsiantar City. The research informants use in this study is a purposive technique, that is the key informants of the Komisi Pemilihan Umum Daerah (KPUD) of Pematangsiantar City, Badan Pengawas Pemilihan Umum (BAWASLU) of Pematangsiantar City. The main informants are the President, the administrators, and members of the Pematangsiantar City BSA/Birmingham Small Arm Owner Motorcycle (BOM'S) community. Additional informants are political party administrators, namely Partai Indonesia Perjuangan (PDI-P), Partai Demokrat, Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) of Pematangsiantar City who knowns the political culture and voter’s behavior of the BSA/Birmingham Small Arm Owner Motorcycle (BOM'S) community in Pematangsiantar City during the Governor’s Election and Deputy Governor of Sumatera Utara in 2018 and the Election of Indonesian President and Vice President in 2019. The results Political Culture of the Birmingham Owner Motorcycle Siantar (BOM'S) Community is participant political culture. The Political Culture of the Participants is inseparable from the history of the establishment of the Birmingham Owner Motorcycle Siantar (BOM'S) community which aims to make the Siantar pedicab (Becak) a cultural heritage object and a tourist vehicle in Pematangsiantar City like "TukTuk" in Thailand and “Jeepney” in the Philippines.

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Ho¨lzinger, Oliver, Dan van der Horst, and Jon Sadler. "City-wide Ecosystem Assessments—Lessons from Birmingham." Ecosystem Services 9 (September 2014): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.05.003.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "City of Birmingham"

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Campbell, Sammy. "A strategic plan for urban ministry in the Birmingham Baptist Association." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Hall, Michael. "Francis Brett Young’s Birmingham : North Bromwich – City of Iron." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/172/.

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In this thesis I investigate Francis Brett Young’s Birmingham portrait in his North Bromwich novels, showing it to be a valid interpretation, though biased to suit the anti-urban prejudices of its author. Chapter One sets Young in his biographical and literary context. Birmingham during the North Bromwich era (c1870-1939) is examined and the role of novels as historical source established. In Chapter Two I define and explore Young’s North Bromwich canon, one exemplar among many historical realities, and show that the name and soubriquets of North Bromwich interpret Birmingham. Chapter Three investigates North Bromwich’s climate and topography, commercial, political and civic life, indicating clear Birmingham parallels. Chapter Four describes North Bromwich suburbs, housing and transport, each of which accurately replicates Birmingham originals. In Chapter Five I show North Bromwich’s recreational and religious life reflecting Young’s own Birmingham experience. Chapter Six traces North Bromwich’s interpretation of Birmingham’s educational provision, particularly concentrating upon its university’s evolution. Chapter Seven establishes links between North Bromwich and Birmingham medicine, revealing thinly-disguised fictional characters as key Birmingham practioners. Summarizing the above, Chapter Eight confirms the integrity of Young’s North Bromwich portrait and his seminal role in the on-going literary interpretation of Birmingham.

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Cohen, Tammy Daniels. "The interactive dwelling : an urban housing community for Birmingham, Alabama." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23019.

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Jones, Ashley M. "Magic City Gospel." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1931.

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Magic City Gospel is a collection of poems that explores themes of race and identity with a special focus on racism in the American South. Many of the poems deal directly with the author’s upbringing in Birmingham, Alabama, the Magic City, and the ways in which the history of that geographical place informs the present. Magic City Gospel confronts race and identity through pop culture, history, and the author’s personal experiences as a black, Alabama-born woman. Magic City Gospel is, in part, influenced by the biting, but softly rendered truth and historical commentary of Lucille Clifton, the laid-back and inventive poetry of Terrance Hayes, the biting and unapologetically feminist poetry of Audre Lorde, and the syncopated, exact, musical poetry of Kevin Young. These and other authors like Tim Siebles, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Major Jackson influence poems as they approach the complicated racial and national identity of the author.

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Hussain, Ajmal. "Muslims in the Metropolis : an ethnographic study of Muslim-making in a 21st century British city." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/muslims-in-the-metropolis-and-ethnographic-study-of-muslimmaking-in-a-21st-century-british-city(918d8ddb-5b42-4cbe-9362-602fd7349460).html.

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Muslims in the Metropolis is about everyday social and cultural practices through which Muslim identity and ‘community’ are made. The study takes Birmingham, a city synonymous with Muslims and the area of Sparkbrook, which has decades long associations with racialised communities, as sites of Muslim-making. While there is considerable literature concerned with the Muslim presence in Western European public spheres, much of it treats the city as merely incidental in the lives of Muslims; as places where they have settled and, then, generated formal spaces, infrastructures and narratives relating to their presence. A key argument advanced in this thesis is that impressions of Muslims as a ‘community’ defined through the lens of settlement patterns resulting from immigration, folk-religious practices carried over from other homelands, socio-economic disadvantage and various other markers of their presence, lend them to being understood in essentialist ways. A number of scholars have noted this and how discourses about ‘parallel lives’, ‘clash of civilisations’ and ‘religious extremism’ have culminated in the Muslim question. In this study I do not so much seek to challenge such representations, but to consider what is left over – the excess - from these framings. A key consequence I argue is that Muslims, when viewed and worked with officially as a ‘community’ based on sensibilities of race relations management in the city, misses the vitality of Muslim life as it is made everyday in relation to discourses and materials linked with their presence in the city. Through the use of ethnography and specifically observations and interviews conducted with people involved in setting up and running an ‘alternative Muslim arts centre’, a local ‘community’ radio station and diffuse networks of social action across the city, I trace different contours of Muslim identity and ‘community’ in the making. Ethnographic methods, I argue, allow valuable insights into how Muslims relate to the city as a place historically marked and presently targeted through racialised narratives and categories of control. There are complex negotiations that go on, where Muslims occasionally resist as well as fold into authoritative discourses and structures around them. Attention is paid to how Muslims live in the interstices of these and how through their social practices generate alternative meanings toward being Muslim; as something not given in the existing nomenclature of multicultural identities in the city, but in process and becoming. These everyday urban rituals of Muslims, therefore, present a challenge to official and academic efforts that attempt to represent or confer recognition on Muslims.

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Scott, Elizabeth Heard. "The detail and the city : a contextual investigation in Second Avenue North Historic District, Birmingham, Alabama." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23085.

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Benkwitz, Adam. "Clashing sub-cultures : the rivalry between the fans of Aston Villa and Birmingham City Football Clubs." Thesis, University of Worcester, 2013. http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/2340/.

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This thesis explores the football fan rivalry between the fans of Aston Villa and Birmingham City. Football fan rivalries are unique and complex, with each one being underpinned by various social, historical and/or cultural factors. Therefore, each rivalry should be studied in-depth in order to understand the underlying factors that shape oppositions and social identities. This rivalry has previously received no academic attention, despite these two being the main clubs in Birmingham, England’s second largest city, with a long history of intra-city rivalry since the first fixture between the two in 1879. The constructivist approach adopted perceived people’s knowledge, opinions, interpretations and experiences as meaningful properties of social reality and, thus, this study aimed to gather data from those who actually experience the rivalry – the fans. An ethnographic study was undertaken in order to elicit rich, qualitative data and to gain a deep and reality congruent insight into the complex factors that underpin the rivalry. Participant observation was conducted at matches involving Aston Villa and Birmingham City. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were conducted with fans of the two clubs, with data being subjected to coding and a thematic analysis. Informed by a cultural studies framework that focused on the centrality of power, the analysis identified three central themes underpinning the rivalry. The first theme was the constant struggle between the fan groups over territory. Fans placed great value on being perceived to control certain areas, or even the whole city, in order to gain power (territorial capital) and become the dominant identity. This is particularly significant as a detailed exploration of territory has previously been absent from football rivalry literature. Secondly, tensions were based on the historical footballing success of Aston Villa, and on Birmingham City’s relative lack of success. Villa fans were perceived as the dominant group as the success of the team afforded them high levels of (sub)cultural capital. Thirdly, the contestation over power was informed by the perceived socio-economic status of each fan group, with Villa fans being perceived as more middle-class and Blues fans more working-class. These complex factors are continually contested and under negotiation, with the passion and intensity of the rivalry enduring as both fan groups battle for dominance. In addition to exploring this particular rivalry for the first time, this study has contributed to the limited but growing literature on rivalries, providing a clear methodological and theoretical framework for future research in this area, which was previously lacking.

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Keshavarz, Nazila [Verfasser], Christa [Akademischer Betreuer] Reicher, and Ingrid [Gutachter] Breckner. "Muslim perspective on neighbourhood park use in Birmingham City, United Kingdom and Aachen City, Germany / Nazila Keshavarz. Betreuer: Christa Reicher. Gutachter: Ingrid Breckner." Dortmund : Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1104263912/34.

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Wolhuter, Caroline Hilary. "Women, work and the sociality of everyday city building : the case of St Martins Rag Market, Birmingham." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251025.

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Barrett, Heather Joy. "Townscape change and local planning management in city centre conservation areas : the example of Birmingham and Bristol." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1996. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5411/.

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The thesis considers townscape change and the operation of conservation policies within two city centre conservation areas in Birmingham and Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. The study combines character assessment of the two areas, from an urban morphogenetic perspective, and micro-scale examination of local authority planning application data to consider the impact of conservation management. Utilising the concepts and terminology developed by M.R.G. Conzen for the analysis of the townscape, the study identifies distinct units of townscape within the conservation areas. The use of an historical basis for conservation area character exposes the arbitrary nature of many conservation area boundaries, enclosing clusters of listed buildings rather than coherent areas of townscape. This approach also exposes the static nature of area character assessments based on architecture alone. These assessments provide an inflexible basis for character preservation and enhancement, one which under-values minor commercial and industrial heritage. While the influence of national economic trends, planning policies and architectural fashions produced a similar trajectory of conservation policy development in both areas, important local differences existed. Differences in the local office market and the extent of building listing produced contrasts in the 'success' of conservation policies. The high percentage of listed buildings in Bristol produced greater success in policy development and application than in Birmingham, by providing greater access to grant funds and the strength to sustain refusals at appeal. Consequently, in Bristol, contextual styles were used exclusively for new building from the mid-1970s onwards, and redevelopment using façadism was limited. This also aided the development of landscaping and building enhancement schemes, helping to tackle the erosion of character through minor change. In Birmingham, amid a pro-business climate and with limited listing of the Victorian fabric, the transition to contextual styles was more muted and façadism remained a key option for new commercial development. These circumstances also delayed and limited the development of enhancement strategies until the mid-1980s. In the late-1980s, rising commercial pressures exposed the weaknesses of conservation control in both areas. Limitations to their character assessments reduced the ability of the two areas to resist trends towards universal historicist styles for new building, and the use of standard 'corporate-heritage' elements for building interiors and exteriors. The lack of extra control offered by area designation for the regulation of interior and functional change reduced the ability of the local authorities to monitor and control the micro-scale processes of change, leading to further character erosion.

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Books on the topic "City of Birmingham"

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Unit, Birmingham (England) Strategic Policy and Planning. Birmingham city trends. City Council, 1991.

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Birmingham (England). City Council. City Pride Board. Birmingham City Pride. City Council, 1994.

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Section, Birmingham (England) Publicity. Birmingham - the business city. Publicity Section, 1991.

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Birmingham: Shaping the city. Riba Pub., 2008.

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Department, Birmingham (England) Development. Birmingham city centre review. City Development Dept, 1989.

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Birmingham (England). Economic Development Unit. Birmingham: The business city. the Unit, 1985.

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Pancheri, Christopher. Birmingham city heritage tour. Development Dept, 1988.

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Birmingham (England). Markets Department. City of Birmingham Markets. Burrow, 1985.

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Birmingham (England). Development Department. Strategic Planning Division. Birmingham city centre review. 2nd ed. Development Department, 1989.

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Birmingham (England). Commercial Services. Markets Division. Birmingham City Markets: A division of Birmingham City Council Commercial Services. Burrow, 1990.

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Book chapters on the topic "City of Birmingham"

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Beatley, Timothy. "Birmingham, United Kingdom: Health, Nature, and Urban Economy." In Handbook of Biophilic City Planning and Design. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-621-9_8.

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Hooper, P. "Will Birmingham become the United Kingdom’s first smoke-free city?" In Tobacco: The Growing Epidemic. Springer London, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0769-9_281.

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Finch, Jason. "Comic Novel‚ City Novel: David Lodge and Jonathan Coe Reinterpreted by Birmingham." In Literary Second Cities. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62719-9_3.

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Hooper, P. C. "Smoke Free Birmingham Project: A Tobacco Free City for the Next Generation?" In Tobacco and Health. Springer US, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1907-2_191.

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Britter, R. E., S. Di Sabatino, F. Caton, K. M. Cooke, P. G. Simmonds, and G. Nickless. "Results from Three Field Tracer Experiments on the Neighbourhood Scale in the City of Birmingham UK." In Urban Air Quality — Recent Advances. Springer Netherlands, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0312-4_6.

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Weinstein, Deena. "Birmingham’s Postindustrial Metal." In Sounds and the City. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137283115_3.

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"Birmingham Case Study." In The Student City. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315236919-2.

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Berg, Leo Van Den, Peter M. J. Pol, Giuliano Mingardo, and Carolien J. M. Speller. "The Case of Birmingham." In The Safe City. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429060625-11.

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Simpson, Barry J. "Birmingham and Coventry." In City Centre Planning and Public Transport. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003156772-5.

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"Birmingham: building the modern city." In Modern City Revisited. Taylor & Francis, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203992036-14.

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Conference papers on the topic "City of Birmingham"

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Dawson, Vicki, Janine Reynolds, Ruth Kingshott, Candi Lawson, and Lorraine Hall. "P028 A model for city-wide implementation of intensive behavioural intervention to improve sleep in vulnerable children." In BSS Scientific Conference Abstract Book, Birmingham, England. British Thoracic Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2019-bssconf.28.

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Bobkova, Evgeniya, Lars Marcus, and Meta Berghauser Pont. "The dual nature of land parcels: exploring the morphological and juridical definition of the term." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5070.

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The importance of the parcel (also referred to as ‘plot’ or ‘lot’) as one of the fundamental elements of urban form is well recognized within the field of urban morphology. It has been described as a basic element in the pattern of land divisions that works as an organizational grid for urban form. One of the distinctive features of the parcel is its dual character: it means both a legal unit defining property rights and a physical entity. In urban fabrics, these dimensions act together to drive the evolution of built space. In this paper, we will investigate the entanglements of the morphological and the legislative definitions of the term, with the aim to resolve these, we better can address and compare the vital layer of parcels in different urban contexts, by both identifying common properties of the notion parcels, and dealing with variations in its legal framework in different countries. What we aim to capture with such a comprehensive definition is the relation between urban form and generic functions, which mainly concerns the functions of occupation and movement, where the system of parcels can be identified as spaces that embed an affordance for occupancy in cities of most kinds. The intended outcome of the paper is to unveil the power of the dual nature of the parcel, bridging between spatial and non-spatial dimensions of cities, that is, more precisely, a potential to establish a stronger interface between urban design and planning practice. References Conzen, M., 1960. Alnwick, Northumberland: a study in town-plan analysis. London: Institute of British Geographers. Kropf, K., 1997. When is a plot not a plot: problems in representation and interpretation. Unpublished. Birmingham, University of Birmingham. Marcus, L., 2000. Architectural knowledge and urban form. The functional performance of architectural urbanity. Stockholm Marcus, L., 2010. Spatial Capital. A proposal for an Extension of Space Syntax into a More General Urban Morphology. The Journal of Space Syntax, pp. 30-40. P.Panerai, J. Castex, J.-C. Depaule, 2004. Urban forms. The death and life of urban block. Oxford: Architectural press.

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Kucuk, Ezgi, and Ayşe Sema Kubat. "Rethinking Urban Design Problems through Morphological Regions: Case of Beyazıt Square." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6179.

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Rethinking Urban Design Problems through Morphological Regions Ezgi Küçük¹, Ayşe Sema Kubat² ¹Urban Planning Coordinator, Marmara Municipalities Union ²Prof., Dr., Istanbul Technical Univercity, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning E-mail: ezgikucuk89@gmail.com, kubat@itu.edu.tr Keywords: the Historical Peninsula, morphological regions, urban blocks, urban design, Beyazıt Square Conference topics and scale: Urban form and social use of space The concept of urban square is a debated issue in the context of urban design practices in Islamic cities. Recognizing the relation between urban morphology and urban design studies in city planning and urban design practices is highly vital. Beyazıt Square, which is the center of the city of Istanbul, could not be integrated to the other parts of the city either configurationally or socially although many design projects have been previously planned and discussed. In this study, the Historical Peninsula of Istanbul is observed as an essential unit of the traditional path reflecting each civilization, namely Roman, Byzantium, Ottoman and Republic of Turkey that have been settled in the region. Transformations in urban blocks in Beyazıt region are elaborated through a series of morphological analyses based on the Conzenian approach of urban morphology. Morphological regions of the Historical Peninsula are identified and Beyazıt region is addressed in detail in terms of the transformations in urban block components, that are; street, plot and buildings. The effects of surrounding units which are the mosque, university buildings, booksellers and Grandbazaar on Beyazıt Square are discussed according to the morphological analyses that are applied to the region. Previous design practices and the existing plan of the area are observed through the analyses including town plan, building block, and land use and ownership patterns. It is revealed that existing design problems in Beyazıt Square come from the absence of urban morphological analyses in all planning and design practices. Through morphological regions as well as the conservation plans, urban design projects can be reconsidered. References Baş, Y. (2010) ‘Production of Urbanism as the Reproduction of Property Relations: Morphologenesis of Yenişehir-Ankara’, PhD thesis, Middle East Technical University. Barret, H.J. (1996) ‘Townscape changes and local planning management in city conservation areas: the example of Birmingham and Bristol’, PhD thesis, University of Birmingham. Bienstman, H. (2007) ‘Morphological Concepts and Landscape Management: The Cases of Alkmaar and Bromsgrove’, PhD thesis, University of Birmingham. Conzen, M.R.G. (1960) Alnwick Northumberland: a study in town-plan analysis, Institute of British Geographers, London. Conzen, M.R.G. (2004) Thinking About Urban Form: papers on urban morphology 1932-1998, Peter Lang, Bern. Çelik, Z. (1993) The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, Berkeley. Günay, B. (1999) Property Relations and Urban Space, METU Faculty of Architecture Press, Ankara. Kubat, A.S. (1999) ‘The morphological history of Istanbul’, Urban Morphology 3.1, 28-41. Noziet, H. (2008) ‘Fabrique urbaine: a new concept in urban history and morphology’, Urban Morphology, 13.1, 55-56. Panerai, P., Castex, J., Depaule, J. C. and Samuels, I. (2004) Urban Forms: The Death and Life of the Urban Block, Architectural Press, Oxford. Tekeli, İ. (2010) Türkiye’nin Kent Planlama ve Kent Araştırmaları Tarihi Yazıları, (Articles of Turkey’s History of Urban Planning and Urban Studies), Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, Istanbul. Whitehand, J.W.R. (2001) ‘British urban morphology: the Conzenian tradition’, Urban Morphology 5.2, 3-10. Whitehand, J.W.R. (2009) ‘The structure of urban landscapes: strengthening research and practice’, Urban Morphology 13.1, 5-22.

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Khatri, K. B., and K. Vairavamoorthy. "Water Demand Forecasting for the City of the Future against the Uncertainties and the Global Change Pressures: Case of Birmingham." In World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41036(342)523.

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Zafer Comert, Nevter, Erincik Edgu, and Nezire Ozgece. "Morphological Analysis of Frontier Villages in Cyprus." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5128.

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Borders may be built for security reasons however; they also demarcate administrative, economic, socio-cultural, ethnic or religious divergence. Borders change the destinies of the societies at both sides because they affect the process of urban development and delimit the economic and socio-cultural interactions. Cyprus has been experiencing an interrupted continuity along the border, i.e. green line, under the rule of UN that divides north from the south. In this regard the aim of the study is to figure out how the de facto borders affect the configuration of villages upon their existing position. As a part of an ongoing research which investigates all eleven frontier villages and towns located along the border line, this paper only focuses on the morphological and syntactic comparison of four frontier villages. Within this context, initial exploration is about the village morphologies by means of Morphological Regions based on the evolutionary insights of Conzen (2004) and Whitehand (2009). Additionally, considering shifted centrality and transformed social gathering spaces, research discusses the applicability of the comparative analyses of syntactic and morphological methods in order to reveal the characteristics of the frontier villages. The preliminary findings of the research indicates that edge villages located along the green line have a controlled spatial development with dead ends and loop layouts, where the spatial configuration presents an introverted structure. On the other hand, villages divided by the green line, presents a relatively integrated spatial structure developed on both sides of the border, maintaining traditional centrality along with emphasizing forced territoriality. References: Conzen MRG, 2004, Morphogenesis and Structure of the Historic townscape in Britain: ed. M.P Conzen in Thinking About Urban Form: Papers on Urban Morpholgoy 1932-1998, Peter Lang, London Hillier, B. (1996) Space is the machine (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge). Whitehand, J.W.R. (2009) ‘The structure of urban landscapes: strengthening research and practice’, Urban Morphology 13, 5‐27, University of Birmingham

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Blick, Sarah Jane, and Chris West. "Tame Valley Viaduct Assessment and Strengthening." In IABSE Congress, Stockholm 2016: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/stockholm.2016.1504.

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Tame Valley Viaduct is a 620m long multi-span highway structure linking Birmingham city centre to the M6 motorway. An assessment in 2004 found the capacity of the structure to be inadequate for current loading, resulting in a requirement for strengthening. Before strengthening works were designed, a comprehensive, refined re-assessment of the structure was undertaken to fully define which areas needed strengthening and which did not. The composite structure comprises a reinforced-concrete slab and typically four longitudinal steel box girders. Each of these longitudinal girders comprises approximately 600 sets of web and flange panels. The scale of the task required automation of the assessment and design process. This paper discusses how the automation was undertaken including the preparation of models to calculate individual panel loading, assessment of the web and flange panels, and the checking of strengthening solutions.

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Ritonga, Fajar Utama, Adil Arifin, and Tuti Atika. "Social Community Birmingham Small Arm Owner Motorcycle (BOM’S) Intervention in Fight for Pedicab to Be a Local Transportation for Tourists in Pematangsiantar City, Sumatera Utara Province." In International Conference on Social Political Development (ICOSOP) 3. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0010018202790287.

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Hobson, S., J. Vyas-Lee, V. Turner, and J. Turnbull. "G491 Establishing and evaluating a multidisciplinary sleep clinic for children with neurodevelopmental difficulties in an inner-city population." In Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Abstracts of the RCPCH Conference and exhibition, 13–15 May 2019, ICC, Birmingham, Paediatrics: pathways to a brighter future. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-rcpch.475.

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Elphick, HE, L. Hall, V. Dawson, et al. "G534(P) A model for city-wide implementation of intensive behavioural intervention to improve sleep in vulnerable children." In Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Abstracts of the RCPCH Conference and exhibition, 13–15 May 2019, ICC, Birmingham, Paediatrics: pathways to a brighter future. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-rcpch.517.

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Barbosa, Fábio C. "High Speed Intercity and Urban Passenger Transport Maglev Train Technology Review: A Technical and Operational Assessment." In 2019 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2019-1227.

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Magnetic levitation (maglev) is a highly advanced technology which provides, through magnetic forces, contactless movement with no wear and friction and, hence, improved efficiency, followed by reduced operational costs. It can be used in many fields, from wind turbines to nuclear energy and elevators, among others. Maglev trains, which use magnetic levitation, guidance and propulsion systems, with no wheels, axles and transmission, are one of the most important application of the maglev concept, and represents the first fundamental innovation of rail technology since the launch of the railroad era. Due to its functional features, which replaces mechanical components by a wear free concept, maglev is able to overcome some of the technical restrictions of steel-wheel on rail (SWR) technology, running smoother and somewhat quieter than wheeled systems, with the potential for higher speeds, acceleration & braking rates and unaffected by weather, which ultimately makes it attractive for both high speed intercity and low speed urban transport applications. From a technical perspective, maglev transport might rely on basically 3 technological concepts: i) electromanetic suspension (EMS), based on the attraction effect of electromagnets on the vehicle body, that are attracted to the iron reactive rails (with small gaps and an unstable process that requires a refined control system); ii) Electrodynamic Levitation (EDL), which levitates the train with repulsive forces generated from the induced currents, resulted from the temporal variation of a magnetic field in the conductive guide ways and iii) Superconducting Levitation (SML), based on the so called Meissner Effect of superconductor materials. Each of these technologies present distinct maturity and specific technical features, in terms of complexity, performance and costs, and the one that best fits will depend on the required operational features of a maglev system (mainly speed). A short distance maglev shuttle first operated commercially for 11 years (1984 to 1995) connecting Birmingham (UK) airport to the the city train station. Then, high-speed full size prototype maglev systems have been demonstrated in Japan (EDL) (552 kph - 343 mph), and Germany (EMS) (450 kph - 280 mph). In 2004, China has launched a commercial high speed service (based on the German EMS technology), connecting the Pudong International Airport to the outskirts of the city of Shanghai. Japan has launched a low speed (up to 100 kph - 62.5 mph) commercial urban EMS maglev service (LIMINO, in 2005), followed by Korea (Incheon, in 2016) and China (Changsha, in 2016). Moreover, Japan is working on the high speed Maglev concept, with the so called Chuo Shinkansen Project, to connect Tokio to Nagoya, in 2027, with top speeds of 500 kph (310 mph). China is also working on a high speed maglev concept (600 kph - 375 mph), supported on EMS Maglev technology. Urban Maglev concept seeks to link large cities, with their satellite towns and suburbs, to downtown areas, as a substitute for subways, due to its low cost potential, compared to metros and light rail (basically due to their lower turning radius, grade ability and energy efficiency). High Speed Maglev is also seen as a promising technology, with the potential do provide high quality passenger transport service between cities in the 240–1,000 km (150–625 mi) distance range into a sustainable and reliable way. This work is supposed to present, based on a compilation of a multitude of accredited and acknowledged technical sources, a review of the maglev transport technology, emphasizing its potential and risks of the low and high speed (urban and intercity) market, followed by a brief summary of some case studies.

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Investigation of water quality and aquatic-community structure in Village and Valley Creeks, City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, 2000-01. US Geological Survey, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/wri024182.

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