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... a different kind of urban environment. His model builds upon his work in the area of architecture and human ecology dating back to the 1940s. His thinking is holistic in the sense that it crosses traditional ... See full document

... book, Arcology: the City in the Image of Man where it was described as a "self-testing school in urban studies" (Soleri, ...While Arcosanti follows in the tradition of a multitude of experiments in ... See full document

... consumption of resources; food scarcity; the loss of quality of life through waste; the affluence and opulence and the physical and social segregation of people, things and activities; and the increasing problems of ... See full document

... between built and natural environments, specifically how visual connectivity to Nature affects how people use social spaces, compared to spatial ...at Arcosanti urban laboratory in the Arizona desert. ... See full document

... Business alliances with suppliers or service providers have proven profitable in the long term and more so in research and development projects (Dunning & Boyd, 2003: 85). Collaborative strategic alliances between ... See full document

... vulnerable environment is unsuitable, especially for hospitalised ...healing environment is being delivered to its users, healthcare FM practitioners are expected to intervene or eliminate the occurrence of ... See full document

... Abstract: Information technology has tremendously influenced the world in almost every field be it business, education, defence, medical science and many more. In the last two decades researchers and business people are ... See full document

... In Malaysia, biodiversity is found in our tropical rainforest and the vast marine ecosystem. Despite rapid progress to turn Malaysia into a developed country come 2020, the loss of biodiversity is a major concern. ... See full document

... of policy and action in relation to the environment and sustainable development 'Towards Sustainability"; Whereas this action programme recognizes the importance of protection of all· gr[r] ... See full document

... Urban planning is playing an important role in achieving sustainable city development. With the development of Information Technology (IT), more and more digital systems are applied in urban planning process, ... See full document

... The quantitative results illustrate that the curriculum, at least in these four institutions, emphasises technological and innovation aspects rather than broader sustainable development issues and more than any ... See full document

... the built environment is perhaps more significant a determinant of how people will travel, while lifecycle stage predicts the number of trips that a household ... See full document

... Ecology sustainable buildings are always fresh and healthy. Every sustainable building will have to purge continuous fresh air to meet the ASHRAE 62 ... See full document

... There are many FC with different additives such as expanded polystyrene (EPS), fly ash (FA) and palm oil fuel ash (POFA) that had been study to find an optimum compressive strength in concrete specimens. But, POFA is the ... See full document

... culture; development of a unique coding system; introduction of information society in the primary health protection, special hospitals; establishment of an electronic health card and web-services for making ... See full document

... Another important effect of memory towards preparedness and adaptation measures is realisation time for taking up adaptation measures. The time when preparedness measures are undertaken may affect the final value ... See full document

... the environment (Greig and Taylor, ...the environment affords the children to form logical thought and able to draw logical inferences from the facts that they are given (McDevitt and Ormrod, ...the ... See full document

... Abstract: Egypt has been experiencing recurrent power cuts especially at the summer, with the problem being made worse by the extra demands placed on the electrical grid by the advent of the holy month of Ramadan. ... See full document

... Houses that the Goans lived in before the Portuguese arrived were designed with a comprehensive knowledge of Nature’s ways as people relied heavily on natural resources for most of their needs. Food, medicine and ... See full document

... The client or developer is the determining factor in the sustainability achieved by any project. They must show leadership to their design and procurement team and force innovation through their supply chain to provide ... See full document