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Journal articles on the topic "Urban responsive design"

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Radović, Darko. "Towards culturally responsive and responsible teaching of urban design." URBAN DESIGN International 9, no. 4 (2004): 175–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.udi.9000124.

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Radford, Antony. "Urban design, ethics and responsive cohesion." Building Research & Information 38, no. 4 (2010): 379–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2010.481437.

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Cortesão, João, Sanda Lenzholzer, Jochen Mülder, Lisette Klok, Cor Jacobs, and Jeroen Kluck. "Visual guidelines for climate-responsive urban design." Sustainable Cities and Society 60 (September 2020): 102245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102245.

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Tamminga, Ken, João Cortesão, and Michiel Bakx. "Convivial Greenstreets: A Concept for Climate-Responsive Urban Design." Sustainability 12, no. 9 (2020): 3790. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12093790.

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This paper presents a conceptual framework for using “convivial greenstreets” (CG) as a resource for climate adaptation. When applied consistently, CG can become an emerging green practice with a positive impact on urban adaptation to climate change: CG may provide localized climate amelioration in ways that support social engagement outdoors. However, as spontaneous phenomena, CG should neither become an academic nor an aesthetic prescriptive tool. How then can CG be used as an active resource for urban adaptation to climate change while avoiding these two potential pitfalls? To explore this question, we present the concept of CG and the ways it can be situated in theoretical urbanism and analogous urban morphologies. We profile the CG inventory corpus and conceptualization that has taken place to date and expand them through a climate-responsive urban design lens. We then discuss how CG and climate-responsive urban design can be brought together while preventing the academization and aestheticizing of the former. This discussion is illustrated with a group of visualizations. We conclude by submitting that climate-responsive urban design and extensive and robust CG practices can co-operate to promote more resilient communities and urban climates. Finally, the conceptual framework herein sets an agenda for future research.
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Kloeckl, Kristian. "The Urban Improvise." Design Issues 33, no. 4 (2017): 44–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00460.

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In this article I draw a parallel between the responsive nature of urban environments in today's hybrid cities and improvisation in the performing arts. By drawing on material from the practice and study of improvisation, as well as the humanities and social sciences, I examine the nature of improvisation and its relationship with urban life. Based on this approach, four key positions are proposed as foundational elements for an improvisation-based model of urban interaction design. A brief analysis examines this model in relation to three existing projects, and by using responsive urban lighting as an example, I illustrate how improvisation techniques can be employed to put into action the proposed key positions to guide the design of responsive urban environments.
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Flaherty, George F. "Responsive Eyes." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73, no. 3 (2014): 372–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.3.372.

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Responsive Eyes: Urban Logistics and Kinetic Environments for the 1968 Mexico City Olympics looks closely at a series of temporary designed environments created for the organizing committee of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Integrating architecture, visual communication, and mass media, the design team created kinetic environments, or spaces that estranged user-beholders’ visual and spatial perceptions, inviting immersion and interaction to produce a holistic image of a thoroughly modern, socially integrated Mexico at a time when this view of Mexico was not necessarily held by audiences at home or abroad. The team’s design choices demonstrated cosmopolitan awareness of global aesthetics and discursive currents, including optical and kinetic art as well as recent advances in scientific investigation that inspired new modes of urban vision and engagement, part of an international renewal of modernist techniques and aspirations. These environments also responded to more local concerns, including Mexico City’s ongoing capitalist urbanization and reticulation of the modernist architect’s professional and social purchase in Mexico in light of increasing globalization. By situating the Olympic environments within the larger context of exhibitions of kinetic art and art happenings from the period, George F. Flaherty highlights the possibilities and limits of transformation envisaged by Mexico 68’s kinetic environments, arguing that their design provides a window through which to assess Mexican architects’ claim to act as expert mediators between the city and state, architecture and art, and Mexico and the wider world.
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Safi, Hedayat Ullah, Mohammad Mukhlis Behsoodi, and Wafiullah Shirzad. "Eco-Friendly Urban Design: Investigating Innovative Approaches and Sustainable Construction Practices Across Afghanistan’s Diverse Climate Zones." Urbana - Urban Affairs & Public Policy XXV, no. 1 (2024): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.47785/urbana.2024.2.

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Climate change serves as a pervasive catalyst globally, significantly influencing urban growth and construction dynamics. The interplay of population growth, heightened consumption, increased waste production, and rising CO2 emissions presents a substantial threat to biodiversity and plant life. Creating vibrant, environmentally conscious cities requires integrating architectural, design, and landscape components into the urban development process. This study employs a descriptive approach to examine the intricate dynamics among urbanism, urbanization, and climate-responsive design across Afghanistan's diverse climatic zones. The findings reveal a significant shift from traditional to contemporary global standards, marking a significant evolution within the construction sector. However, there remains a notable lack of climate awareness, resulting in a gap between evolving construction features and climate-responsive methodologies. The Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency’s strategies are often too generalized, failing to address specific climatic requirements effectively. Unplanned urban growth has led to limited access to proper housing, increased poverty, and greater vulnerability to climate impacts. Key issues include uncontrolled carbon emissions from heating, transportation, waste management, and industrial activities, severely affecting precipitation patterns and living quality. The research emphasizes the necessity for tailored climate-responsive design and sustainable construction practices, advocating for integrating green technologies and enhancing regulatory frameworks to promote energy efficiency and reduce the environmental footprint of urban developments in Afghanistan.
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Pattacini, Laurence. "Urban Design and Rivers: A Critical Review of Theories Devising Planning and Design Concepts to Define Riverside Urbanity." Sustainability 13, no. 13 (2021): 7039. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13137039.

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In a post-industrial world one of the foci of urbanism has been on the regeneration of former industrial sites along urban rivers. This is a contemporary urban design issue that needs further attention, especially in relation to urban forms and design interventions. This paper sets out to contribute to research in design by reviewing past theories and practices in order to inform the formation of conceptual ideas. These are of importance to inform practice and ensure responsive and responsible processes in planning and design. Such a review has hitherto been lacking, but with a renewed interest in urban densification, research in the design of cities is required. Thus, this paper provides a critical assessment of theories, which are identified and categorised in relation to urban riverside regeneration. For this study, urban design is considered as a craft requiring ‘savoir faire’ to ensure the functionality and quality of urban spaces. Transferable principles and ideas are identified in relation to the specific characteristics of riverside locations contributing to the definition of a ‘riverside urbanity’. It provides a theoretical framework identifying types of riverside landscapes, including the relationship between urban forms and river corridors.
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Zhong, Sailin, Ido Nevat, Juan Angel Acero, Lea Alexandra Rüfenacht, Perhac Jan, and Elliot Koh. "A novel decision support tool for climate-responsive urban design." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1343 (November 2019): 012011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012011.

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Enrique Fernández L., J., Joaquín de Cea Ch., and R. Henry Malbran. "Demand responsive urban public transport system design: Methodology and application." Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 42, no. 7 (2008): 951–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2007.12.008.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urban responsive design"

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Schiller, Silvia de. "Sustainable urban form : environment and climate responsive design." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404746.

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Mabbitt, Richard. "Responsive townscape management : a morphological approach." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263993.

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Peker, Ender. "Provision of urban thermal comfort : a socio-technical approach to climate responsive urban design." Thesis, University of Reading, 2016. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/66475/.

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This research claims that urban design as a discipline has the potential to catalyse the production of more climate responsive urban living environments. This is now a goal for many governments who are looking for ways to tackle climate change. The research argues that a climate responsive design (CRD) approach, which originated in the field of architecture, can be scaled-up to wider urban scales in order to activate the catalysing power of urban design. Climate responsive urban design (CRUD) can help to reduce energy consumption for the provision of thermal comfort in different layers of urban life. However, its application calls for the integration of `technical knowledge(s)` (i.e. building form, street geometry, density) and `social knowledge(s)` (i.e. lifestyle, socio-cultural values) that are generated through everyday life experiences and socio-cultural relationships of local people. Adopting a socio-technical approach, the research was conducted in Mardin, Turkey, a city in the south east of the country and a candidate for the UNESCO World Heritage List. Part of the city (the ‘Old Town’) evidences a mode of urban development that has been developed over thousands of years in response to climatic conditions, people’s lifestyles and their socio-ecologic values. The research takes a comparative approach to explore the similarities and differences between the way(s) in which urban thermal comfort is evidenced and provided within the ‘Old Town’ heritage site and a contemporary (‘New Town’) development delivered by the Turkish government using a standardized design. Various techniques such as in-depth interviewing, technical measurements (i.e. temperature, humidity), street questionnaires, ethnographic observation, photographing and video-recording were used. The results present that the current urban development pattern fits neither local requirements nor respond sufficiently to climatic variations of the type seen in Mardin. The research elaborates this mismatch by highlighting the responsive design clues/traces from the vernacular (‘Old Town’) urban development pattern which offer more responsive environments for the provision of thermal comfort. The research shows that, in order to achieve truly sustainable urban development, there is a need to (re)define climate responsive urban design to better respond to local climatic characteristics and consider local people`s perceptions and comfort requirements under specific climatic conditions.
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Mukkamala, Beena R. "A new theory of urban design and responsive environments : a comparative study of two approaches to urban design." Kansas State University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/36076.

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Moreton, Leo. "Regionally responsive approaches to residential design in England." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/32570/.

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During the 20th Century, concern started to grow that the towns of England were losing their individual identity. This unease became most evident in the development of new houses. The aim of the study is therefore to produce a framework that encapsulates recommendations to assist in the development of regionally responsive houses. The research is located in England, and specifically in the market towns of the North East. This is because Northumberland is perceived as a remote county, and therefore strongly expressive of the region. Within the county, the market towns are centres of traditional lifestyles, and therefore places where regionalism is most likely to be found. The focus is on domestic architecture, as this is individuals’ most immediate and personal interaction with the built environment. An early part of the study was to investigate the concepts of regionalism and regional architecture. The history of regionalism has been a transition from local methods to increasingly standardised approaches to design. This has resulted in a loss of identity through the use of design strategies that are not context driven. It is a lack of focus on region that makes similar architectural responses ubiquitous. Without a concerted focus on specific places, the nuances of climate, culture, and materiality cannot be sufficiently explored. Although there has been significant research into variation of architectural response and material use, there is no overall picture of the significance of vernacular architecture. However, as these houses are historic by nature, questions emerge about their relevance and whether they are replicable. The neo-vernacular revival may be a response. The study confirms the widely-held belief that speculative housebuilders dominate the market for new homes in England. These housebuilders started to produce the same houses all over the country, with little challenge from development control. The response was residential design guides, which aim to preserve the unique qualities of the built environment that have contributed to the character of market towns. However, their consistent emphasis on the past, does not offer the basis for developing a framework that can deliver contemporary regionally-expressive domestic architecture. Thus, a fundamental appraisal of home was undertaken, as a means of unpacking positive interaction between people, place and building that can form a set of socio-cultural values. The purpose of the appraisal was to identify aspects that may contribute to regional identity. This was applied in terms of the development of market towns in England, and a system for the architectural analysis of their houses. Corbridge in Northumberland, was selected as a typical market town, and the system was employed to assess its houses. The outcomes were verified by similar analyses of schemes in three other market towns in the region. Residents in all four towns were interviewed to determine the factors that influenced their purchase of the houses. Architects, planners and house developers were also interviewed to determine their perspectives. All parts of the study contributed to the framework, which is organised in terms of historical context, geographical context and design considerations based on the architectural analysis.
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Findlay, Robert Allen. "Learning in community-based collaborative design studios : education for a reflective, responsive design practice." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363723.

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Evans, David. "Urban design qualities in the planning and development of small new settlements." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363722.

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Lavenir, Xavier Paul Lister. "The strategic design and environmental footprint of highly responsive urban distribution networks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127736.

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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, 2019<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-107).<br>With the rise of the on-demand economy and the increasingly high service levels expected by consumers, companies are racing to provide shorter and shorter delivery lead times for e-commerce orders. Two-day deliveries have become the norm in dense urban areas and companies are developing highly responsive urban distribution networks capable of serving consumers in lead times as low as one hour. These changing consumer shopping habits are leading to more fragmented deliveries and increased urban freight activity as it becomes more difficult to consolidate orders. Increased urban freight activity is in-turn leading to more congestion, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollution, harming city residents. In this work, we explore the strategic design of highly responsive urban distribution networks, promising lead times of under two hours, and investigate which operational and environmental parameters drive the deployment of different types of network designs.<br>We explore how adding extra levels of network flexibility, with the ability to physically relocate fulfilment capacities throughout the day using mobile inventory locations, affects the commercial and environmental performance of a network. Furthermore, we evaluate the environmental footprint of these networks by measuring their contribution to congestion and CO₂ and NO[subscript x] emissions, and contrast these with the environmental footprint of next-day delivery distribution networks. From a policy perspective, we investigate how the strategic design and performance of highly responsive networks are affected by an urban congestion charge policy and by different levels of government subsidy for last-mile logistics infrastructure. We optimize the design of these highly responsive networks using an iterative simulation-optimization approach which captures the stochastic and dynamic nature of the last-mile operations.<br>We conduct a case study with a global fashion company, where we design highly responsive distribution networks capable of serving the company's online customers in Manhattan, New York, in under two hours. We find that highly responsive orders tend to be much less sustainable than orders delivered the next-day, with a higher delivery cost and environmental footprint. However, highly responsive networks can be sustainable if designed under favourable operational conditions, such as enabling the consolidation of orders and using sustainable couriers such as bicycles.<br>by Xavier Paul Lister Lavenir.<br>S.M. in Technology and Policy<br>S.M.inTechnologyandPolicy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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Abraham, Jose P. "Redesigning Kansas City's government district using the urban-design approach of responsive environments." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4117.

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Abraham, Jose P. "Redesigning Kansas City’s government district using the urban-design approach of responsive environments." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4117.

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Master of Science<br>Department of Architecture<br>David R. Seamon<br>This thesis presents a redesign of Kansas City’s downtown Government District, making use of the conceptual approach provided by Responsive Environments (1985), a manual for urban design written by architects Ian Bentley and Alan Alcock, urban designers Sue McGlynn and Graham Smith, and landscape architect Paul Murrain. “Responsive environments” are those urban places, the physical settings of which maximize usability and social value by offering a wide range of day-to-day user choices within close proximity. The authors of Responsive Environments identify seven hierarchical qualities—permeability, variety, legibility, robustness, visual appropriateness, richness, and personalization—that are said to be vital in creating responsive environments within the city. Through a literature review and critique, chapters 1 and 2 of the thesis overview Responsive Environments in terms of several major theorists of urban place making, including urban theorist Bill Hillier (1984), urban critic Jane Jacobs (1961), and urban designer William Whyte (1980). In turn, chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 investigate the practicability of Responsive Environments as an urban design approach by applying its three larger-scale qualities of permeability, variety, and legibility to the Government District, an existing urban area in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, presently underdeveloped in terms of environmental responsiveness and a strong sense of urban place. As a means to identify strengths and weaknesses of Responsive Environments, the last chapter of the thesis critiques the resulting Government District design. The thesis concludes that Responsive Environments is a valuable design approach that offers much for strengthening the quality of urban life and urban sustainability.
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Books on the topic "Urban responsive design"

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1964-, Porta Sergio, ed. Urban sustainability through environmental design: Approaches to time, people, and place responsive urban spaces. Routledge, 2007.

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Babalis, Dimitra, ed. Ecological design for an effective urban regeneration. Firenze University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/88-8453-146-2.

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In recent years, there is an expanding of attention to ecological matters regarding urban regeneration and development, planning and conservation processes by developing a range of appropriate key considerations aimed to a better quality of urban environments. It is now further considerable the aim at a comprehensive range of design issues for community strategies, local development frameworks and actions plans that can enhance quality of life. This book explore the conceptions on sustainable city and the attention that has to be paid by a responsive design process to urban regeneration and development.
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Chigbu, Uchendu Eugene, ed. Land governance and gender: the tenure-gender nexus in land management and land policy. CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247664.0000.

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Abstract This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Themes include Islamic tenure, reverse migration, matriarchy/matrilineal systems, structural inequality, tenure-responsive planning, land-related instabilities and COVID-19, urban-rural land concerns, women's tenure bargaining, tenure-gender nexus concerns in developing and developed countries.
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Agbola, T. The architecture of fear: Urban design and construction response to urban violence in Lagos, Nigeria. IFRA, 1997.

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D, Steele Brett, ed. Negotiate my boundary!: Mass-customisation and responsive environments. Birkhäuser, 2006.

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Thwaites, Kevin, Mark Greaves, Ombretta Romice, and Sergio Porta. Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design: Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces. Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

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Thwaites, Kevin, Mark Greaves, Ombretta Romice, and Sergio Porta. Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design: Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces. Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

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Thwaites, Kevin, Mark Greaves, Ombretta Romice, and Sergio Porta. Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design: Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces. Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

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Thwaites, Kevin, Mark Greaves, Ombretta Romice, and Sergio Porta. Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design: Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces. Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

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Thwaites, Kevin, Mark Greaves, Ombretta Romice, and Sergio Porta. Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design: Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces. Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "Urban responsive design"

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Black, Philip, Michael Martin, Robert Phillips, and Taki Sonbli. "Towards Contextually Responsive Urban Design." In Applied Urban Design. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003024163-3.

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Handcock, Tarryn, and Tassia Joannides. "Urban Flâneur: A Site-Responsive Walking Methodology for Fashion Design." In Experiential Walks for Urban Design. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76694-8_16.

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Salmon, Nicolas, Grace Yépez, Micaela Duque, et al. "Co-design of a Nature-Based Solutions Ecosystem for Reactivating a Peri-Urban District in Quito, Ecuador." In Governance of Climate Responsive Cities. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73399-5_6.

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Vivekanandan, V., R. Sureshkumar, S. Manikandan, et al. "Environmental Monitoring and Sustainability: LLMs for Climate-Responsive Urban Design." In The Springer Series in Applied Machine Learning. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86039-3_4.

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Kirova, Nikol, Areti Markopoulou, Hayder Mahdi, and Shruti Jalodia. "A Smart Material System for Real-Time Urban Flow Data Collection Toward Responsive Environments and Informed Decision Making in Urban Spaces." In Impact: Design With All Senses. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29829-6_54.

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Duarte, Fábio, and Carlo Ratti. "What Urban Cameras Reveal About the City: The Work of the Senseable City Lab." In Urban Informatics. Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_27.

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AbstractCameras are part of the urban landscape and a testimony to our social interactions with city. Deployed on buildings and street lights as surveillance tools, carried by billions of people daily, or as an assistive technology in vehicles, we rely on this abundance of images to interact with the city. Making sense of such large visual datasets is the key to understanding and managing contemporary cities. In this chapter, we focus on techniques such as computer vision and machine learning to understand different aspects of the city. Here, we discuss how these visual data can help us to measure legibility of space, quantify different aspects of urban life, and design responsive environments. The chapter is based on the work of the Senseable City Lab, including the use of Google Street View images to measure green canopy in urban areas, the use of thermal images to actively measure heat leaks in buildings, and the use of computer vision and machine learning techniques to analyze urban imagery in order to understand how people move in and use public spaces.
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Birol, E. B., C. J. Hernandez, and J. E. Sabin. "PolyBrick 2.0: Design and fabrication of load responsive structural lattices for clay additive manufacturing." In Structures and Architecture A Viable Urban Perspective? CRC Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003023555-11.

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Sommese, Francesco, and Gigliola Ausiello. "From Nature to Architecture for Low Tech Solutions: Biomimetic Principles for Climate-Adaptive Building Envelope." In The Urban Book Series. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29515-7_39.

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AbstractBuilding envelopes represent the interface between indoor and outdoor environmental factors. In recent years, attention to climate adaptive building envelopes has increased. However, some types of adaptive envelopes don’t always offer low-tech solutions, but require energy for their activation and high operating and maintenance costs. Nature has always proposed a large database of adaptation strategies that are often complex, multi-functional, and responsive. Transferring the functional principles of natural organisms and their associated adaptive modalities to technologies is the challenge of the biomimetic discipline (from Greek bios, life, and mimesis, imitation) applied to the field of architecture. In this article, various examples of biomimetic architecture that illustrate the relationships between biology, architecture, and technology, were considered. Various analyses of the operating principles of natural organisms are carried out, particularly with regard to self-adapting materials, in order to transfer them to the building envelope, and to propose technological solutions capable of passively adapting to external climatic conditions. Among all natural organisms, plants are prefereble to animals because, like buildings, they remain stationary in a specific location. Despite this, plants have developed different adaptation mechanisms to survive in certain environments. Buildings with biomimetic adaptive envelopes, characterized by passive and low-tech solutions inspired by plants, help limit energy consumption, and improve not only the indoor microclimate but also the outdoor environment. In line with the ecological transition, this work highlights the importance of biomimetic as a strategy to orient the new paradigms of built space design towards innovative and sustainable models of low-tech solutions.
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Lucanto, Domenico, and Consuelo Nava. "The Contribution of the Green Responsive Model to the Ecological and Digital Transition in the Built Environment." In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34211-0_17.

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AbstractThe proposal represents a framework for the digital transition of the construction sector and architecture without depletion, towards a resilient system for the management of the circularity of resources and the optimization of performance in the building organism by intervening on the liminal space, controlling its impacts. The research on the themes of Advanced Sustainable Design, in which the approaches to circular design and UpCycling are placed, interprets the mission of the necessary ecological and digital transition, in the construction sector and for the architecture of buildings and spaces with zero impact, reforming design processes and using computational simulation and prototyping strategies. The experimental topics addressed in doctoral research experiences and competitive projects within ABITAlab, investigate the relationship between hypersustainability and enabling technologies, between advanced design and transition scenarios, providing a contribution to frontier research in which theoretical paradigms and experimental results are innovated and transferred to the sector of transformation of the built environment at the building and urban scale. The contribution reports some theoretical and experimental activities in progress. To summarize the topics that will be found within the paper, they can be listed: Introduction; Literature review; Experimental context; Green Responsive Model; Methodology; Green Responsive System approach; Results; Conclusions
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El Mir, Jamila. "Heat Resilience: A Matter of Both Adaptation and Mitigation for the GCC." In Contributions to Economics. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73090-0_3.

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AbstractThe Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are also warming twice as fast as the global average, with temperatures already reaching a 2 °C scenario compared to preindustrial temperatures. According to the United Nations Environment Program, cooling generates around 7% of the global greenhouse gas emissions, while it is responsible for 70% of the peak electricity demand in the GCC. This highlights the prominence of heat as a key climate impact for the GCC region and it really is a matter of both climate mitigation as well as adaptation. Heat resilience and cooling therefore become priority action areas for the governments of the region to deliver on the Paris Goals in a locally responsive manner. This article aims to provide an overview of the impacts of increasing heat on the GCC region, current efforts to address them, and opportunities for enhanced climate action for a heat-resilient future. It highlights existing practices in mitigating the impacts of increased heat through urban planning, public realm design, and building design as well as workforce guidelines for outdoor jobs. It also identifies key areas requiring additional research within the region and key policy recommendations for countries in the GCC to better address the various impacts of increasing temperatures.
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Conference papers on the topic "Urban responsive design"

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Nazim, Ibrahim, and SamConrad Joyce. "Urban Analytics and Generative Deep Learning for Context Responsive Design in Digital Twins: A Singapore Study." In CAADRIA 2024: Accelerated Design. CAADRIA, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2024.2.495.

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D S, Nithya, Giuseppe Quaranta, Vincenzo Muscarello, and Man Liang. "Sensitivity Analysis of Urban Air Mobility Aircraft Landing Trajectory Deviation to Microscale Wind Disturbances." In Vertical Flight Society 81st Annual Forum and Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4050/f-0081-2025-320.

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Urban Air Mobility (UAM) aircraft are highly susceptible to turbulent wind disturbances when operating near buildings in complex urban environments. Microscale wind phenomena, combined with the unconventional designs of UAM aircraft, increase the risk of performance deviation, the overall duration, and the cost of flight tests for certification. A way to overcome this would be through simulation-based flight tests. Therefore, this study simulates a UAM aircraft landing vertically behind an isolated tall building, considering four different wind scenarios: no wind, uniform wind fields at low and high spatial resolutions (assumed constant across the airframe), and non-uniform fields with spatially varying velocity profiles at individual rotor hubs. The resultant flight test data are then used to quantify the impact of microscale wind characteristics on landing performance by systematically analyzing the rotor performance, aerodynamics, control response, and trajectory deviation.
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Cheshmehzangi, A., Yan Zhu, and Bo Li. "Integrated design approach - urban design for sustainability." In 5th International Conference on Responsive Manufacturing - Green Manufacturing (ICRM 2010). IET, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp.2010.0441.

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Li, Ying, and Andy H. F. Chow. "Responsive Signal Control Design for Urban Traffic Network." In The Twelfth COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784412442.116.

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"Responsive Kirigami - Context-Actuated Hinges in Folded Sheet Systems." In 2018 Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design. Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22360/simaud.2018.simaud.022.

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"Hybrid Workstations: Establishing Interactive and Responsive User-Interfaces for Daylight Applications." In 2017 Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design. Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.22360/simaud.2017.simaud.025.

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Irsyad, Naufal Andi, Miktha Farid Alkadri, Francesco De Luca, Muhammad Arif, and Florian Heinzelmann. "Tropical Responsive Envelopes for Urban Heat Island mitigation in tropical countries." In eCAADe 2023: Digital Design Reconsidered. eCAADe, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2023.2.249.

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"Assisting the development of innovative responsive fa?ade elements using building performance simulation." In 2017 Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design. Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.22360/simaud.2017.simaud.027.

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Calderón, Gibsy Marcela Estrada, and Habid Becerra Santacruz. "Responsive Surface Design to Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI)." In Congreso SIGraDi 2020. Editora Blucher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5151/sigradi2020-128.

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Jenewein, Oswald. "Post-Oil Environments: Responsive Design Strategies for Coastal City-Landscapes of Oil." In 2020 ACSA Fall Conference. ACSA Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.fallintercarbon.20.4.

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This paper summarizes parts of an interdisciplinary research and design project on climate adaptation strategies on the scale of architecture and the city within the case-study territory of Corpus Christi Bay in South Texas. In particular, this paper assesses the challenges of the emerging process of re-industrialization along the Texas Coast, highlighting significant impacts of industrial growth on the city landscape of Downtown Corpus Christi, which is located directly adjacent to the industrial oil port. A proposed masterplan is shown in this paper to demonstrate how responsive design strategies may benefit post-oil city-landscapes in the age of anthropogenic climate change. The emphasis is storm-water and flood mitigation, walkability, alternative transportation, and urban place-making in response to community input related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the AIA Framework for Designing for Equitable Communities. Methodologically, this project builds upon a mixed-methods approach. It includes qualitative and quantitative data gathered through Participatory Action Research, a successful tool to connect the research team and students to local communities, stakeholders, and constituents. The paper suggests that this era of re-industrialization needs to be seen as a transformative process that enables the aging city landscape to adapt to both changing ecological conditions and the time after this late oil boom. Urban identity, socio-economic diversity, and healthy conditions for urban ecosystems are essential parameters to inform the development of comprehensive strategies for the built environment. The responsive design strategies shown in this paper pro- pose the implementation of an infrastructural landscape addressing these challenges. The central element of the master plan is a canal that serves multiple purposes, including disaster preparation and response infrastructure, stormwater management, and alternative transportation for inner-city and city-to-city connections, has been developed to adapt Downtown Corpus Christi to the projected ecological changes.
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Reports on the topic "Urban responsive design"

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Schmidt-Sane, Megan, and Annie Wilkinson. Key considerations: Mpox response in urban informal settlements. Institute of Development Studies, 2025. https://doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2025.025.

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The World Health Organization declared the second mpox public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in August 2024. Cases of mpox have been reported in both endemic and non-endemic countries in diverse settings in Central and East Africa. In urban areas, there is sustained human-to-human spread of mpox via close physical contact including sexual contact. Of particular concern are urban informal settlements that often face high population densities, overcrowded dwellings and inadequate infrastructure. It is important that the mpox response is adapted to these unique contexts. The mpox response should build upon an array of local capacities and knowledge, including the strategies that these communities have used during previous disease outbreaks. The brief highlights key issues and good practices that can be carried into the design and delivery of mpox response activities. This brief is based on a rapid review of published and grey literature, drawing on social science evidence on health emergencies in urban informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa. This brief complements the collection of SSHAP resources on mpox.
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Suksawang, Wilasinee. Public response to the appearance of ecological landscape design : A case study of Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park. Chulalongkorn University, 2020. https://doi.org/10.58837/chula.res.2020.25.

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The appearance of ecological landscape design often causes public dissatisfaction. Precedent texts and studies, especially in the landscape perception and design fields, reiterated the affection for the ‘picturesque’ and the ‘park-like’ landscape of most Americans, resulting in their resistance to the ‘messiness’ of ecological landscapes. This research, therefore, studied how Thais perceive and respond to the look of the landscape, investigating if the ‘picturesque’ and the ‘messiness’ play a role in their perception and appreciation of ecological urban park design in the country. The questionnaires were distributed to gather respondents’ notions of beautiful, natural, and ecologically sustainable landscapes as well as opinions on the ecological landscape design of Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park-a pioneer and epitome of ecological landscape design in Bangkok. Four groups of respondents included park users, affiliates of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok residents, and landscape professionals. The analysis of 315 responses reveals the attachment to the ‘picturesque’ ideal and the ‘park-like’ landscape, as well as the disinclination for the ‘messiness’ and poor maintenance of most Thais. Also, the ‘picturesque’ conventions, ‘cues to care’ tactic, familiarity, and knowledge about nature and ecology seemed to involve in their perception of beautiful, natural, and ecologically sustainable landscapes. Based on these findings, the research suggests strategies for designing ecological urban public parks in Bangkok in order to achieve not only ecological function, but also aesthetic expression, with the ultimate goal of achieving public positive attitude toward, and widespread support for the ecological landscape projects in the city.
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Bedoya-Maya, Felipe, Agustina Calatayud, and Vileydy Gonzalez-Mejia. Estimating the effect of urban road congestion on air quality in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004512.

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Road congestion and air pollution are key challenges for quality of life in urban settings. This research leverages highly disaggregated crowdsourced data from Latin America to study the effect of road congestion on levels of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matter in four of the most congested cities in developing countries: Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Santiago. Based on a panel data econometric approach with over 4.4 billion records from Waze and hourly data from 54 air monitoring stations for 2019, our two-stage least square model shows a cumulative increase of 0.6% in response to a 1% of road congestion on the three air pollutants. Moreover, we find a nonlinear relationship between road congestion and air quality and estimate the threshold above which the effect decays. This study provides evidence that supports public policies designed to make urban mobility more sustainable by implementing measures to reduce road congestion in developing contexts.
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Chhor, Auston, Jessica Ruggles, and Kristen Walters. Nature-based Solutions for addressing climate risks and fostering biodiversity in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Raincoast Conservation Foundation, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.70766/9.11738.

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Climate change and habitat loss are two intersecting issues facing communities and ecosystems in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. In response to increasingly severe weather, municipalities have invested heavily in engineered defences like floodgates, dikes, and breakwalls, resulting in a profound loss of aquatic and riparian habitat. These lost ecosystems were once critical to local wildlife and provided water management services like flood mitigation and water filtration. Nature-based Solutions offer a unique opportunity to simultaneously address heightened climate risks and habitat loss by using a framework that values the benefits that intact ecosystems provide to human society. Our report highlights the services that Nature-based Solutions can provide, namely, flood mitigation, stormwater management, and carbon sequestration, while discussing successes and challenges associated with their implementation across the Lower Mainland. First, we introduce Surrey’s living dike in Boundary Bay, part of the city’s broader Coastal Flooding Adaptation Strategy. The living dike aims to address heightened coastal flood risk by incorporating components of a natural salt marsh into its design. This design will provide quality estuarine and riparian habitat for migratory birds and salmon in addition to creating a more climate resilient shoreline. Second, we highlight the City of Vancouver’s St. George Rainway project. Located in the heart of the Mt. Pleasant neighbourhood in Vancouver, the project will restore a buried creek along St. George Street. The restored creek will create urban stream habitat, filter pollutants from runoff, and improve rainwater management. This process, known colloquially as “daylighting,” is a new approach to urban rainwater management that values the ecological, economic, and social benefits of urban green space. Lastly, we place a spotlight on the protection of Burns Bog, a Nature-based Solution that foregoes active restoration. By protecting the bog in its current state, carbon remains locked in its soils and plants, actively mitigating climate change. Burns Bog is also an internationally significant stopover site for migratory birds, and contains a myriad of unique plant species found nowhere else in the Lower Mainland. Nearby communities also benefit from the water filtering services it provides, as well as its ability to mitigate flooding.
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Kwon, Heeseo Rain, Heeyoun You, and Sang Keon Lee. Korea's Pursuit for Sustainable Cities through New Town Development: Implications for LAC: Knowledge Sharing Forum on Development Experiences: Comparative Experiences of Korea and Latin America and th. Inter-American Development Bank, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006999.

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Under rapid urbanization that took place from around 1960 to 1990, the Republic of Korea has been facing various urban problems such as the expansion of urban slum, traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Among the various responses to these challenges, New Town development can be regarded as one of the most successful and effective strategies, which hasover 50 years of development history in five phases. Korea's New Towns were developed with three main purposes according to the periodic needs: industry support, housing supply, and nationwide balanced development. Phase I New Towns (1962-81) responded to the country's need for industry promotion. Phase II (1967-86), Phase III (1989-95) and Phase IV (2001-present) New Towns were built in response to the severe lack of housing emerged due to over-concentration in the capital and later its metropolitan area, by providing large-scale housing inside Seoul, in the outer ring of Seoul, and in the Capital Area respectively over time. Finally, the most recent Phase V New Towns (2005-present) provided response to the issue of equitable and balanced development across the country. These development yielded outcomes such as housing market stabilization, improvement of housing condition, securement of public and green spaces, economic effect on related industries, and expansion of urban infrastructure. The paper suggests three success factors of Korea's New Town development. First is feasible planning and concrete implementation strategies that enabled the implementing organizations to overcome conflicts and carry on with the project until completion. The second factor is institutional driving force and legal support which involved establishing a dedicated bureau, defining clear organizational structure and stakeholder roles, and providing timely Acts to support the land acquisition and construction. The third success factor is reasonable land acquisition methodologies which evolved over time from Land Readjustment to Publically Management Development. This paper also presents Sustainable New own Design Criteria as an important implication for the LAC to consider, which includes social, economic and environmental sustainability that pursue outcomes such as social inclusion, self-sufficiency, connectivity, green space and smart resource management. Exchanging these experience of Korea and promoting mutual cooperation would be highly valuable for the cities in LAC to minimize the trial and error and maximize the success factors experienced by Korea as an attempt to relieve the challenges of rapid urbanization they are faced with at present. In this regard, it is anticipated that Korea can actively share its accumulated New Town experience and knowledge and act as one of the promising development partners of the countries in LAC.
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Stebbing, Nicola, Claire Witham, Frances Beckett, Helen Webster, Lois Huggett, and David Thomson. © Crown copyright 2024, Met Office Page 1 of 43 Can we improve plume dispersal modelling for fire related emergency response operations by utilising short-range dispersion schemes? Met Office, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.62998/wnnr5415.

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Large fires that produce plumes of smoke and other contaminants can cause harm to both people and the environment. To support UK emergency responders, the Met Office Environmental Monitoring and Response Centre (EMARC) provides dedicated weather advice and forecasts of the plume in the form of CHEmical METeorological (CHEMET) reports. The plume’s expected location, extent and relative air concentrations of pollutants are predicted using the Numerical Atmospheric-dispersion Modelling Environment (NAME), which simulates the transport and dispersion of pollutants using numerical weather prediction data. During major fires, air quality monitoring equipment is deployed to confirm the presence of elevated concentrations of contaminants. We use ground-level air concentration measurements from multiple events to evaluate the operational set-up of NAME. We investigate both the output averaging depth used to calculate air concentrations and the use of three optional NAME schemes that are designed to improve the representation of short-range dispersal dynamics: the near-source scheme, the plume-rise scheme, and the urban scheme. We find that using the current operational output averaging depth of 100 m produces model air concentrations that compare best to point observations at the surface, and that using the near-source and urban schemes further improves the fit. However, using these more computationally expensive schemes has little impact on the modelled location and extent of the plume, suggesting they may offer no advantage over using the current operational set-up to produce CHEMETs. Using the plume-rise scheme strongly influences the predicted plume location, extent and surface concentrations. Further work is needed to understand whether its application is appropriate for simulating plumes from fires. We conclude that the current operational set-up can be maintained while the significance of the impact the optional schemes have on CHEMET plume dispersal forecasts is considered further.
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Appleyard, Bruce, Jonathan Stanton, and Chris Allen. Toward a Guide for Smart Mobility Corridors: Frameworks and Tools for Measuring, Understanding, and Realizing Transportation Land Use Coordination. Mineta Transportation Institue, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2020.1805.

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The coordination of transportation and land use (also known as “smart growth”) has been a long-standing goal for planning and engineering professionals, but to this day it remains an elusive concept to realize. Leaving us with this central question -- how can we best achieve transportation and land use coordination at the corridor level? In response, this report provides a review of literature and practice related to sustainability, livability, and equity (SLE) with a focus on corridor-level planning. Using Caltrans’ Corridor Planning Process Guide and Smart Mobility Framework as guideposts, this report also reviews various principles, performance measures, and place typology frameworks, along with current mapping and planning support tools (PSTs). The aim being to serve as a guidebook that agency staff can use for reference, synergizing planning insights from various data sources that had not previously been brought together in a practical frame. With this knowledge and understanding, a key section provides a discussion of tools and metrics and how they can be used in corridor planning. For illustration purposes, this report uses the Smart Mobility Calculator (https://smartmobilitycalculator. netlify.app/), a novel online tool designed to make key data easily available for all stakeholders to make better decisions. For more information on this tool, see https://transweb.sjsu.edu/research/1899-Smart-Growth-Equity-Framework-Tool. The Smart Mobility Calculator is unique in that it incorporates statewide datasets on urban quality and livability which are then communicated through a straightforward visualization planners can readily use. Core sections of this report cover the framework and concepts upon which the Smart Mobility Calculator is built and provides examples of its functionality and implementation capabilities. The Calculator is designed to complement policies to help a variety of agencies (MPOs, DOTs, and local land use authorities) achieve coordination and balance between transportation and land use at the corridor level.
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Bano, Masooda, and Daniel Dyonisius. The Role of District-Level Political Elites in Education Planning in Indonesia: Evidence from Two Districts. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-wp_2022/109.

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Focus on decentralisation as a way to improve service delivery has led to significant research on the processes of education-policy adoption and implementation at the district level. Much of this research has, however, focused on understanding the working of the district education bureaucracies and the impact of increased community participation on holding teachers to account. Despite recognition of the role of political elites in prioritising investment in education, studies examining this, especially at the district-government level, are rare. This paper explores the extent and nature of engagement of political elites in setting the education-reform agenda in two districts in the state of West Java in Indonesia: Karawang (urban district) and Purwakarta (rural district). The paper shows that for a country where the state schooling system faces a serious learning crisis, the district-level political elites do show considerable levels of engagement with education issues: governments in both districts under study allocate higher percentages of the district-government budget to education than mandated by the national legislation. However, the attitude of the political elites towards meeting challenges to the provision of good-quality education appears to be opportunistic and tokenistic: policies prioritised are those that promise immediate visibility and credit-taking, help to consolidate the authority of the bupati (the top political position in the district-government hierarchy), and align with the ruling party’s political positioning or ideology. A desire to appease growing community demand for investment in education rather than a commitment to improving learning outcomes seems to guide the process. Faced with public pressure for increased access to formal employment opportunities, the political elites in the urban district have invested in providing scholarships for secondary-school students to ensure secondary school completion, even though the district-government budget is meant for primary and junior secondary schools. The bupati in the rural district, has, on the other hand, prioritised investment in moral education; such prioritisation is in line with the community's preferences, but it is also opportunistic, as increased respect for tradition also preserves reverence for the post of the bupati—a position which was part of the traditional governance system before being absorbed into the modern democratic framework. The paper thus shows that decentralisation is enabling communities to make political elites recognise that they want the state to prioritise education, but that the response of the political elites remains piecemeal, with no evidence of a serious commitment to pursuing policies aimed at improving learning outcomes. Further, the paper shows that the political culture at the district level reproduces the problems associated with Indonesian democracy at the national level: the need for cross-party alliances to hold political office, and resulting pressure to share the spoils. Thus, based on the evidence from the two districts studied for this paper, we find that given the competitive and clientelist nature of political settlements in Indonesia, even the district level political elite do not seem pressured to prioritise policies aimed at improving learning outcomes.
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