To increase mobile user engagement, photo sharing sites are trying to identify interesting and memorable pictures. Past proposals for identifying such pictures have relied on either metadata (e.g., likes) or visual features. In practice, techniques based on those two inputs do not always work: metadata is sparse (only few pictures have considerable number of likes), and extracting visual featur...

the concepts of democracy have been around for centuries in different fields of human sciences. however, in most of these fields the idealistic and far-fetched features attributed to democracy have not been manipulated yet. it should be mentioned that there have been only a few serious attempts to find proper go-between elements, which could make such a concept as comprehensible and tangible as...

Atmospheric CO2, CH4, and CO are measured in a variety of locations across Canada. The wavelet transform is used to find points of interest, such as the daily carbon cycle, as well as longer term oscillations. Wavelet coherence finds patterns linking the sequences around 7 to 10 day oscillations, mostly during the summer. The daily CO2 cycle is stronger in more southern and urban locales, indic...

Abstract Our research investigates how the design process can accommodate a relational view of agency. According to the relational view, agency or capacities of action is neither an attribute of subjects nor of objects. The relational view of agency in design may allow designers to recognize and support the diversity and richness involved in human agency. To this end, we developed six design qu...

The publicness of publicly owned public spaces is an important concept that needs further examination, especially in countres like China where most urban are and managed. This case study Chongqing People’s Square reveals the transformation municipal squares’ reform-era closely linked with country’s shifting political sociocultural contexts. We argue despite traditionally valued ownership planni...

a number of new concepts have emerged in the last two decades whose proponents claim that if achieved, they would deliver more sustainable urban environments. among them, new urbanism and urban village are the ones with the most theoretical support and practical application. both ideas, however, have been criticized in several grounds. but no study has been carried out to show the effectiveness...

the study of design and formation of urban space focuses on interaction of human and environment. this is an attractive subject that considers as interdisciplinary debates. thinkers of urban studies pay attention to this matter empirically and theoretically in order to provide a desirable space for human being. this research is based on the theories of urban studies and urban sociology and so o...

the aim of this research paper was to determine the role of urban space design on cities competitiveness in the process of globalization. in the era of globalization and with the rush of investors to find attractive places for investment, cities are becoming the focal points for investors and the urban managers, who need to present a variety of attractions to draw financial capital and be able ...

The demand for security by urban elites has driven the subtle transformation of their neighbourhoods – and wider city with a more closed fragmented public realm, ‘anti-disorder’ design strategies increasing control. This article explores signature elements securityscapes in affluent domains Mexico City London, two very different cities yet similarly fragmenting inhibiting modes design. Extensiv...