A just future is within reach for UCLA’s Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. To achieve this end, the Playboy Mansion must be destroyed. This essay will present Mansion’s history to explain why in terms socio-sexual justice, then recommend how execute demolition order avoid repeating mistakes that have left Westwood’s residential space so misallocated. Neither private nor public a...

There have been much interest and many efforts to control global warming and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout the world. Recently, the Republic of Korea has also increased its GHG reduction goal and searched for an implementation plan. In buildings, for example, there have been technology developments and deployment policies to reduce GHG emissions from a life cycle perspective,...

Simplification of three-dimensional (3D) buildings is critical to improve the efficiency of visualizing urban environments while ensuring realistic urban scenes. Moreover, it underpins the construction of multi-scale 3D city models (3DCMs) which could be applied to study various urban issues. In this paper, we design a generic yet effective approach for simplifying 3D buildings. Instead of rely...

The percent of energy consumed by plug load equipment in commercial buildings is on the rise. Research conducted in the past has included surveying plug load equipment, measuring plug load electricity consumption and equipment operating patterns, and studying plug load reduction solutions in office buildings, but plug load energy use across other building types is poorly understood. A universit...

In Australia, many large cities suffered the loss of important buildings during the building boom of the 1960s. During this time of demolition and re-building the ‘face’ of major cities changed forever. This period of savage removal of heritage and significant buildings has been the subject of much interest and debate till this day. There exists the need to provide virtual models of Australian ...

Abstract There was tsunami in Aceh 2004 with the height reached to 30 meter. It caused by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake on Sunda megathrust. The destroyed most of buildings affected cities and claimed many fatalities. However, there were incidents around before 2004. is located northern Sumatera Island Indonesia. part Great Arc subduction zone, convergent boundary between Indo-Australian Eurasian ...

The heritage of the estates Russia as a whole, including in St. Petersburg province, is currently almost destroyed, therefore, study topic related to possibility preserving objects manor architecture especially relevant for restoration scientific direction. highest nobility occupy special place history architecture, but many unique complexes have remained only memories, and most survivors prese...