Walkability has become an important theme of urban design research and practice. Evidence suggests that environmental attractiveness can have a significant impact on the amount walking activities take place, but relatively little exists which features linked to increase walkability. Using virtual reality experiment, present study examined effects walkability three key features, as defined by Ja...

Global urbanization is advancing, and with it, the densification of cities. Due to increased sealing open spaces re-densification existing urban settings, green in city are becoming scarcer. At same time, greening within fabric known for its positive effects on environment decisively counteracts heat effect. This study deals benefits façades as a cooling measure. Two façade systems, one trough ...

A moderate-sized (8 MW) fire was modelled in a warehouse located an urban area with diverse architecture, wind conditions. The investigation includes the effects of neighbouring architecture on field, and consequence smoke control performance dispersion near-field building. Overall, 25 CFD simulations were performed ANSYS Fluent code, for velocities 5 m/s (moderate), 10 (strong) at 12 angles ea...

The demand for mobile laser scanning in urban areas has grown recent years. Mobile-based light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology can be used to collect high-precision digital information on city roads building façades. However, due the small size of curbs, that curb is limited. Moreover, occlusion may cause extraction method unable correctly capture area. This paper presents development ...

In the 1960s Indianapolis, Indiana’s near-Westside, was transformed by urban renewal projects that carved space for the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus out of a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was totally displaced, and today the former neighborhood covering 300 acres is completely effaced and the commu...

This paper is meant as a brief description of the Romanian syntax within the dependency framework, more specifically within the Universal Dependency (UD) framework, and is the result of a volunteer activity of mapping two independently created Romanian dependency treebanks to the UD specifications. This mapping process is not trivial, as concessions have to be made and solutions need to be foun...

The purpose of this study is to present the history of civil hospitals present in Pula through the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. All circumstances which are related to their founding and development have been analysed, together with a number of complex events which had influenced them through several decades. Careful archival and bibliographic research has made it possible to pre...