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Journal articles on the topic "Nagoya City":

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Reid Bartholomew. "City Profile: Nagoya, Japan." World Literature Today 92, no. 6 (2018): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.7588/worllitetoda.92.6.0005.

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Yamada, Takashi. "Nagoya City and Environmental Issues." Zairyo-to-Kankyo 60, no. 5 (2011): 221–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3323/jcorr.60.221.

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KAMIYA, Hiroo. "Daily Activities of Housewives in Nagoya City." Japanese Journal of Human Geography 39, no. 6 (1987): 505–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4200/jjhg1948.39.505.

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Inagaki, Toshiaki, Tatsuji Niimi, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Yoshio Hashizume, Masayuki Ogihara, Tomoyuki Mizuno, Aki Inagaki, and Motoo Kikuchi. "Sociomedical Study of Centenarians in Nagoya City." Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics 33, no. 2 (1996): 84–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3143/geriatrics.33.84.

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ASAHI, Sachiyo. "1995 Input-Output Table of Nagoya City." Input-Output Analysis 12, no. 1 (2004): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.11107/papaios.12.16.

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NAKAMICHI, Naoaki. "Preventive malodor abatement for cesspits in Nagoya city." Journal of Japan Association on Odor Environment 42, no. 3 (2011): 202–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2171/jao.42.202.

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SAKAI, Tetsuo, Masaru KITASE, Kazuo OHBA, and Makiko YAMAGAMI. "Acid rain and soil surveys in Nagoya City." Journal of Environmental Conservation Engineering 26, no. 11 (1997): 766–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5956/jriet.26.766.

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MIZUTORI, Masafumi, and Masatake KADOYU. "Thermal Enviromment in Nagoya City and its Surburbs." PROCEEDINGS OF HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING 38 (1994): 365–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2208/prohe.38.365.

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SAINO, Takero. "On the Spatial Pattern of Aging in Nagoya City." Annals of The Tohoku Geographycal Asocciation 41, no. 2 (1989): 110–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5190/tga1948.41.110.

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Takatsu, Tadao. "Japanese Society of Paediatric Neurology Nagoya City, May, 1965." Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 7, no. 6 (November 12, 2008): 705–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1965.tb07853.x.

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Hai, Pham Minh, and Yasushi Yamaguchi. "CHARACTERIZING THE URBAN GROWTH OF HANOI, NAGOYA, AND SHANGHAI CITY USING REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL METRICS." IEEE, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/12105.

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Wakai, Kenji, Yoshinori Ito, Satoshi Hibi, Hisao Naito, Shoichi Hagikura, Joji Onishi, Sanae Tsukamoto, et al. "STUDY PROFILE ON BASELINE SURVEY OF DAIKO STUDY IN THE JAPAN MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIVE COHORT STUDY (J-MICC STUDY)." Nagoya University School of Medicine, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15361.

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Kohon, Jacklyn Nicole. "Building Social Sustainability from the Ground Up: The Contested Social Dimension of Sustainability in Neighborhood-Scale Urban Regeneration in Portland, Copenhagen, and Nagoya." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2330.

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In response to growing social inequality, environmental crises, and economic instability, sustainability discourse has become the dominant "master signifier" for many fields, particularly the field of urban planning. However, in practice many sustainability methods overemphasize technological and economic growth-oriented solutions while underemphasizing the social dimension. The social dimension of sustainability remains a "concept in chaos" drawing little agreement on definitions, domains, and indicators for addressing the social challenges of urban life. In contrast, while the field of public health, with its emphasis on social justice principles, has made significant strides in framing and developing interventions to target the social determinants of health (SDH), this work has yet to be integrated into sustainability practice as a tool for framing the social dimension. Meanwhile, as municipalities move forward with these lopsided efforts at approaching sustainability practice, cities continue to experience gentrification, increasing homelessness, health disparities, and many other concerns related to social inequity, environmental injustice, and marginalization. This research involves multi-site, comparative case studies of neighborhood-scale sustainability planning projects in Portland, U.S.; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Nagoya, Japan to bring to light an understanding of how the social dimension is conceptualized and translated to practice in different contexts, as well as the challenges planners, citizen participants, and other stakeholders encounter in attempting to do so. These case studies find that these neighborhood-scale planning efforts are essentially framing the social dimension in terms of principles of SDH. Significant challenges encountered at the neighborhood-scale relate to political economic context and trade-offs between ideals of social sustainability, such as social inclusion and nurturing a sense of belonging when confronted with diverse neighborhood actors, such as sexually oriented businesses and recent immigrants. This research contributes to urban social sustainability literature and sustainability planning practice by interrogating these contested notions and beginning to create a pathway for integration of SDH principles into conceptualizations of social sustainability.
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白井, 大輔, Daisuke SHIRAI, 裕之 清水, Hiroyuki SHIMIZU, 淳. 大月, and Atsushi OTSUKI. "名古屋市文化小劇場を通してみた地域小規模公立文化施設の管理運営の現状と課題." 日本建築学会, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/11744.

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Hill, Kathryn Marie. "Gender and livelihood politics in Naga City, Philippines." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/975.

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This thesis examines how livelihood diversification is also a site in which gender relations are unsettled, maintained and (re)configured. With the aim of strengthening the links between feminist and agrarian change scholarship, I present ethnographic material from Naga, a medium-size city in Bicol, Philippines, to explore how daily discourses, practices and performances of livelihood change are instrumental in mapping ways of life that are gendered. In the first part of the thesis, attention is devoted to the inadequate, or at least outdated, attention to gender relations in previous models of livelihood change, and to spell out some of the implications its integration may bring. In the remaining part of the thesis my aim is to indicate how this integration should be achieved. Specifically, I highlight some of the problems stemming from ‘structural’ analyses of gender, and emphasize the fresh perspectives opened up by a post-structural, performative approach. I then proceed to the Naga context, where I present two case studies to ‘flesh out’ these theoretical claims in more depth. Part One traces the involvement of state institutions in these changing political economies. Specifically, I consider how local state policies and practices associated with agrarian change are not simply implicated in people’s tendency to diversify, but also in the (re)production of gender identities. Notions of male responsibility and women’s rightful position in the home emerge as particularly important in this respect. In Part Two, I move to Pacol, a small farming community located on Naga’s peri-urban fringe. By drawing on interview and focus group material provided by ten ‘diversifying’ households, I consider how these discourses come into being; how they are worked through and (re)produced inperformances.
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Chase, Jeffery Park. "Broadening our classroom : planning education and the Naga City Studio course at UBC SCARP." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2278.

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Broadening our Classroom is organized into two parts. Part One deals with a theoretical discussion about the meaning and motivations of planning education in contemporary societies and times. From here, planning education can be both contextualized and understood within the wider discourse of what planning education should be in the 21st century. This study then works to illuminates areas of planning education that must be critiqued and challenged based on the way they are currently taught and engaged. Here, the ideas of ‘skills’ and ‘competencies’ are teased in an attempt to fruitfully grapple with planning education from the standpoint of its students. This points towards the need for 21st century planners to observe values, utilize skills and employ took-kits which include the ability to work in cross-cultural settings effectively (at home and abroad), an area of planning education which is to an extent lacking in practice. The merger of planning education and cross-cultural learning experience is proposed as a mechanism to address some of the challenges associated with this endeavor. Part Two transports the theoretical discussion into practice through an evaluation of the Naga City Studio Course offered by the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia (SCARP UBC). In May and June 2007, 20 UBC students participated in a ‘Planning Studio’ course in Naga City, Philippines. The Naga City Studio course serves as a case study in operationalizing a direction for planning education. The course is evaluated and analyzed primarily through participant’s experiences and reflections on the course. It becomes clear that the Naga City Studio Course serves as a creative and ultimately profound example of new directions in planning education, providing students the opportunity to gain cross-cultural exposure and to better understand and enhance their planning related skills within a cross-cultural context. The opportunity for students to both develop and better understand the (cultural) competencies necessary as practicing professionals is a key outcome of the course and serves as the key finding of Broadening our Classroom.
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Back, Lilibeth. "Informal economy in the context of globalization and urban gentrification : the case of small-scale farmer-vendors in the City of Naga, Philippines." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169838.

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Abril, Sánchez Jorge. "Linda A. Curcio-Nagy. The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity. 1 a ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 222 pp." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/103236.

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Genoway, Noël Edward. "The provision of infrastructure in Nagoya during the 1990’s." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9681.

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This thesis discusses changing priorities in urban infrastructure in Japanese cities especially due to emerging pressures such as ' internationalization', the shift to ''knowledge-intensive industries', and the search for a higher urban 'quality of life'. Case studies are presented of four major projects under way in metropolitan Nagoya during the early 1990s, which the author visited as part of field studies under taken in 1994. These are: 1) The Chubu International Airport, a national infrastructure project; 2) The Aichi Cultural Center and the International Design Center Nagoya, address the issue of 'culture" and are regional infrastructure projects; 3) The Shidami Human Science City, which was designated in the 'City's New Basic Plan' as a priority project to upgrade the city's economic infrastructure. The research findings suggest that in the 1990s, Nagoya was indeed moving towards a new urban development strategy based around these major infrastructure projects.

Books on the topic "Nagoya City":

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Kenchikukyoku, Nagoya-shi (Japan). Nagoya: Nagoya, housing and city planning. Nagoya-shi: Nagoya-shi, 1987.

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Keikanshitsu, Nagoya-shi (Japan) Toshi. Urban design in Nagoya: Urban design captured on film, Nagoya, 1989 = Nagoya no toshi dezain : toshi dezain o iketori ni shita, 1989-nen Nagoya. Nagoya: Urban Design Office, Planning Bureau, City of Nagoya, 1989.

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Bijutsukan, Nagoya-shi. Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan shozō sakuhin sōmokuroku: Catalogue of collections, Nagoya City Art Museum. Nagoya-shi: Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan, 1999.

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Bijutsukan, Nagoya-shi. Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan shozō sakuhin sōmokuroku: Catalogue of collections, Nagoya City Art Museum. Nagoya-shi: Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan, 1988.

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Kōtsūkyoku, Nagoya-shi (Japan). '97 shibasu chikatetsu jikokuhyō: City bus & subway timetable, Nagoya city. Nagoya-shi: Nagoya-shi Kōtsūkyoku, 1997.

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Bijutsukan, Nagoya-shi. Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan korekushonsen: Selected works from the collection of Nagoya City Art Museum. Nagoya-shi: Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan, 1998.

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Iwata, Noriaki. Technological capability of manufacturing firms in Nagoya City. Nagoya, Japan: Economic Research Center, Faculty of Economics, Nagoya University, 1989.

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Nagoya-shi Dōshokubutsu Jittai Chōsa Kentōkai. Reddo dēta bukku Nagoya 2010: Nagoya-shi no zetsumetsu no osore no aru yasei seibutsu = Red data book Nagoya 2010 : threatened wildlife of Nagoya City. 8th ed. Nagoya-shi: Nagoya-shi Kankyōkyoku Kankyō Toshi Suishinbu Seibutsu Tayōsei Kikakushitsu, 2010.

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Bijutsukan, Nagoya-shi. Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan shozō sakuhin sōmokuroku, hoi: Supplementary catalog of collections, Nagoya City Art Museum. Nagoya-shi: Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan, 1991.

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Tsunoda, Minako. Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan 20-nen no ayumi ten: Kaikan 20-shunen kinen : kirokushū = Twenty years of Nagoya City Art Museum. [Nagoya-shi]: Nagoya-shi Bijutsukan 20-nen no Ayumi Ten Jikkō Iinkai, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Nagoya City":

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Stocker, Karl. "Nagoya — The City of the Design City Declaration." In The Power of Design: A Journey through the 11 UNESCO Cities of Design, 89–96. Vienna: Springer Vienna, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1583-1_10.

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Kawaguchi, Nobuko. "Case Studies in a Variety of Urban Greenspaces: Nagoya City." In Labor Forces and Landscape Management, 151–98. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2278-4_10.

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Onishi, Akio, Keijiro Okuoka, and Feng Shi. "Reduction Potential for CO2 Emissions by Urban Structure Changes and Introduction of Photovoltaic Power Generation in Buildings and Unused Area in Nagoya City." In Design for Innovative Value Towards a Sustainable Society, 844–49. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3010-6_172.

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Yoshida, Takumi, and Toshiyuki Kaneda. "A Simulation Analysis of Shop-around Behavior in a Commercial District as an Intelligent Agent Approach -A Case Study of Osu District of Nagoya City-." In Agent-Based Social Systems, 131–42. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-87435-5_11.

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"Final Nagoya Declaration." In Building the Ecological City, 215–18. Elsevier, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-1-85573-531-6.50019-0.

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"Chapter Thirteen. The Perfect Site For A New Capital City." In Nagaoka, 253–58. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004166004.i-370.40.

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"Chapter Seven. The Basic Plan Of A Chinese-Style Capital City." In Nagaoka, 137–43. BRILL, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004166004.i-370.24.

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Borromeo-Bulao, Mary Joyce. "Naga City, Camarines Sur:." In Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines, 187–204. NUS Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv136c5vg.14.

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"6. Nago City Referendum." In Okinawa and the U.S. Military, 157–85. Columbia University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/inou13890-008.

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Kikon, Dolly, and Duncan McDuie-Ra. "Audible City." In Ceasefire City, 115–46. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190129736.003.0004.

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This chapter follows the sounds of Dimapur through the lives of musicians and the nascent music industry. Dimapur has become a home for Naga musicians to establish music schools and recording studios and to hold events across many genres. Dimapur is also the subject of the city’s music. Musicians write and sing about the city, giving the urban landscape a presence in popular culture. The city also appears in music videos, circulated digitally through YouTube and other platforms, putting the city ‘on the map’ for the consumers of contemporary Naga music, whether in the frontier, in cities in other parts of India, or in diaspora. Through these networks, Dimapur is experienced as sound and image, some of which draw conspicuously on the past of militarism, though much eschews the past to project notions of a future, a capitalist future of wealth and conspicuous consumption played out in the urban landscape.

Conference papers on the topic "Nagoya City":

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Hai, Pham Minh, and Yasushi Yamaguchi. "Characterizing the Urban Growth of Hanoi, Nagoya, and Shanghai City using Remote Sensing and Spatial Metrics." In IGARSS 2008 - 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2008.4780014.

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Sugahara, Ryo, and Akio Kuroyanagi. "Research Regarding the Conceptual Change Observed in the Sea City Concept." In ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-77741.

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From the 1960th to 1980th years in the second half of the 20th century, numerous “sea city concepts” were proposed as a new city image. Among these concepts, in Japan, the sea city concept reflecting the current urban development situation of that time, was drawn by the architects as an image of the ideal city. During that period, in Japan for the purpose of the further economic development, the landfilled industrial zones were created in the surroundings of large metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. It led to the concentration of the population due to the people fleeing to the big cities from the provinces for employment, which created various problems of big cities such as population overcrowding, land shortage, traffic jams, air pollution, etc., so the different tasks became apparent. As a way to solve such problems, a sea city plan has been proposed. The oldest initiative was the Tokyo Bay concept of 1958 which proposed the creation of a new city by creating a new land by landfilling Tokyo Bay. However, that initiative only covered the expansion of the existing land, and didn’t make any advantage of “ocean” resources. For that reason, the further proposals subsequently enabled taking advantage of the sea by creating the canals, artificial islands or pile-style structures which led to adoption of proposal to float up. After that, the sea city concepts basing on the floating type had increased, and the subjected water area transited from the shallow water to the offshore area. Furthermore, the authors are planning to arrange the process of transition of the concept of the sea city by taking into account the changes the way oceans are treated and the structures relative to time.
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Miyamoto, Takujiro, Koichi Masuda, Takeo Kondo, and Yoichi Arai. "A Study on the Retention of Port Distribution Functions at the Time of Earthquake: Business Continuity Management." In ASME 2009 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2009-80230.

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This is a study on how to retain distribution functions at the port in the large-scale industrial disaster prevention scheme at the time of great earthquakes. Urgent need for such efforts has been mounting in recent years. Industrial disaster prevention scheme is, in other words, Business Continuity Management (BCM), which enables continuity of important businesses while trying to make an early recovery of overall business activities at the time of great earthquakes. When an earthquake occurs, it is important to quickly resume businesses after an initial period of confusion. For this purpose, it is necessary to make a large-scale restoration plan, including the restoration of social infrastructure. In the Chubu Metropolitan Area in Japan where the city of Nagoya is the center, the global division of labor has been rapidly in progress. The businesses are developing more and more within the framework of closely and finely-knit global supply-chains between domestic and overseas enterprises. It is one of the areas where Business Continuity Management is in urgent need. The subject of the case study in this paper is all international distribution activities at the Port of Nagoya in the Chubu Metropolitan area where Tokai, Tou-Nankai or Nankai Earthquakes is anticipated in the near future. The concept of the Business Continuity Management shall be developed through research on the current measures taken by the enterprises and organizations who are the port-users. Then the goals and problems regarding the recovery of port functions will be identified. Furthermore, we will attempt to propose technological means to solve the problems and achieve the goals. This paper starts with the analysis of the questionnaires to about 30 member companies and organizations of Industry Disaster Management Panel. The next section consists of two parts; the first half is devoted to the function recovery planning on the shore, and the second half discusses the function restoration of the section on the sea within the port. We believe this study will provide valuable guidelines for the port function recovery in the Chubu area at the time of earthquakes. It will also serve as effective guiding philosophy for many ports in Japan and around the world which face similar problems.
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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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