The unprecedented situation of COVID-19 has created a unique response from village-based projects in rural Bulgaria. My research 2019-2020 followed three that facilitate urban-rural intergenerational connection as form reinvestment. With project planning uncertain and interactions between generations discouraged due to the pandemic, my research, cultural work I am following, took an unexpected ...

Autonomous urban robots were introduced in Milton Keynes (MK), UK, 2018 to automate on-demand grocery delivery. Two years later the COVID-19 pandemic rendered routine activities such as delivering groceries or visiting supermarket unexpectedly unsafe for humans. The ensuing disruption provided opportunities investigate potentialities of robotic and autonomous systems provide cities with resourc...

It is a fact that the urban sprawl, known as the process of gradual spread out of urbanization has become a worldwide phenomenon. The growing consumption of land, as a result of the extension of highway networks, open up vast space of territory, which seems to have become an unstoppable cancer, and affects virtually all the contemporary metropolis. The expansion of the cities had its origin in ...

Preliminary results of a survey undertaken by Oxfam Australia on the social impact of the global economic crisis on families in Vanuatu found that this impact has been negligible. The biggest impact reported by families was in fact from the global food crisis of late 2007 and 2008, which has affected in particular urban families more reliant on imported rice and flour for daily sustenance, and ...

BACKGROUND Sickle cell disease (SCD) occurs in 1 of every 500 African American births and 1 of every 36,000 Hispanic American births. Of children with SCD, 16.7% to 96.3% develop sickle retinopathy (SR). This study was designed to determine whether certain factors are associated with SR and whether SR is correlated with a greater incidence of other SCD manifestations. METHODS A retrospective ...

the main tasks of ‘environmental graphics’ have been designated as: provision of instructions and essential information, environmental embellishment, ease of interconnection and visual identity establishment all of which can affect the culture and identity of the audience through an unconscious process. if we consider, on the one hand, the crisis of identity and cultural problems of the present...