Demolition Blues. Resistance Against Demolition Plans in a Danish Disadvantaged Affordable Housing Estate

Lessons from Lisson Green: an Evaluation of Walkway Demolition on a British Housing Estate

Aprevlously unpublished 1986 evaluation of walkway demolition on a London public housing estate Is re-presented. It compares popularly reported views that the removal of walkways reduced crime with the police crime record for the estate. No general crime reduction took place as was claimed. However, closer examination of time series data revealed some significant changes in crime patterns. Good...

Making Decisions on the Demolition or Refurbishment of Social Housing

• Refurbishment of social housing can deliver significant improvements in energy, environmental and health performance, which can lead to costs savings and improved living standards for residents. • Refurbishments can have lower overall lifetime costs than demolition and construction and can cause less disruption to communities and residents. • Engaging residents in regeneration decisions is cr...

Caspases: cellular demolition experts.

Apoptosis is co-ordinated by a family of cysteine proteases, the caspases, that dismantle the cell by targeting a panoply of proteins for limited proteolysis. The mammalian caspase family contains 14 members, a subset of which participates in apoptosis, with the remainder likely to be involved in the processing of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Apical caspase activation events are typically initia...

Soundless Chemical Demolition Agents

Interactive Structural Demolition

We present a method for a structural simulation of destructible 3-dimensional metal frame buildings at interactive frame rates. Beams, floor slabs, and wall sections are simulated as rigid bodies and joined together by rigid constraints. Each constraint is given a set of breaking thresholds for the force and torque around each axis, allowing them to fail if the structure is overloaded or damage...