The use for scheduling irrigations and for determining water allotments for landscapes is being adopted by water purveyors, agencies, landscape architects, and maintenance personnel. The needs of the dry and hot areas of ...

Parking lots typically are designed to accommodate as many automobiles as possible. The common product is an expanse of asphalt lacking vegetation that negatively affects the urban microclimate. The usual design of parking ...

The Palmae are one of the most important plant families, with great contributions to mankind. Their unique appearance, regular growth habit and adaptatibility to cultivation are remarkable, but their growth rates in ...

This paper demonstrate the current situation of the urban park (Pedio Areos) in the centre of Athens and deals with its management issues. Two major problems are the daily maintenance and safety. As it is known, parks ...

During the Olympic Games preparation of 2004 in Athens many project applied to the urban and to the rural area of Attica County where Athens is the capital. The purpose of this study is to point out the main design concept ...

The research and the design focused at combining and enhancing the surrounding area of the school which is referred to as the “Lighthouse of Orthodoxy”. The project has been envisaged in such manner as to provide a spiritual ...

The Polyphyto Hydroelectric Project was constructed in 1974 and it has been operating since on the Aliakmonas River, Kozani prefecture, by the Greek Public Power Corporation. The construction of the Ilarion Hydroelectric ...

This paper aims to share experiences in understanding, exploring and creating landscape space in studio projects. Catherine Dee’s book, “Fabric and Form in Landscape Architecture: A Visual Introduction”, has, over the ...

Today landscape digital technologies have become prerequisite for all landscape educational programs, altering the ways landscape architecture design schemes look, and by extension influencing the tra¬ditional methods that ...

This paper discusses the organization, distribution and architectural elements of Venetian towers on Naxos Island, the largest island of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea in Greece, most of which date to the Venetian rule. ...

Silos are industrial facilities used for storing a huge range of different materials. In the last decades, many silos were damaged by natural events, among which the seismic events are the most significant. Indeed many ...

Trees in cities have an important positive effect on people’s lives. One such positive effect is the amelioration of microclimate. The aim of this research is to assess the correlation between parameters that affect the ...

This paper investigates how vegetation, mainly through evapotranspiration, affects the improvement of microclimatic conditions in urban areas and, more specifically, it examines the case for the city of Chania in Crete. ...

This paper examined users’ preferences for landscape design of grounds and spaces surrounding hospitals, in order to assess how they perceived the landscape facilities so as to make future open spaces of hospitals suitable ...

The large construction projects cause inevitable negative impact on the natural landscape of the exposed areas. Among these is the creation of disturbed surfaces with unsuitable soil material and gradients that imply ...

Agriculture in cities has always existed although it is typically considered a rural activity. In fact, many cities have evolved from agrarian roots, settling on the agricultural lands that are most productive. However, urban ...

The suggested ecological concept of urban green space is a series of gardens by the water edge connected through a network of footpaths with large blocks of woodland, creating therefore a natural framework at the city's ...

Urban public space is not a phenomenon of the twenty first century. It originated with the public parks of the mid-nineteenth century which were a considerable part of the urban fabric (Chadwick, 1966). Urban parks and ...

Στην εργασία αυτή παρουσιάζονται τα αποτελέσματα δειγματοληπτικής έρευνας (στρωματοποιημένη δειγματοληψία με ερωτηματολόγια) που πραγματοποιήθηκε τον Μάρτιο του 2003, σχετικά με τις θέσεις των εργαζομένων (Ιατροί, Νοσηλευτές, ...

Στόχος της εργασίας αυτής είναι η διερεύνηση και η αντιμετώπιση του προβλήματος του κυκλοφοριακού θορύβου στους οικισμούς, που βρίσκονται πλησίον υπεραστικών οδών. Για την πραγματοποίηση του σκοπού της εργασίας εξετάζεται ...