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Introducing local property tax for fiscal decentralization and local authority autonomy
(SPIE, 2015)Charles Tiebout (1956), in his work “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures”, provides a vision of the workings of the local public sector, acknowledging many similarities to the features of a competitive market, however ...
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The Intuitive Bioclimatism and Embedded Sustainability of Cypriot Vernacular Farmhouses, as Principles for their Strategic Restoration and Reuse.
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2019)This research aims to investigate the bioclimatic design, sustainability and environmental behaviour of Cypriot vernacular farmhouses, as part of small-scale family-owned farmsteads. These farmhouses, located in village ...
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Irrigation of infrastructure projects of Egnatia Motorway: Implementation study of irrigation network of K4 Interchange
(Elsevier, 2015)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 ...
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Land reclamation: Landscape principals conceming infrastructures in Greece
(2001)A number of infrastructure projects are on progress ail around Greece at the moment. The common propose of these a project is the promotion of quality in: Design, construction and maintenance stages. They also comply ...
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Land restoration for the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece: Case study Lycabettus slopes (cycle road)
(Springer, 2007)A number of landscape projects have been completed around Athens (Greece) for the 2004 Olympic Games.The common purpose of these projects was the promotion of quality in: design, construction and maintenancestages. They ...
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Landscape Design for Egnatia Highway an Infrastructure Project in Northern Greece
(2001)The Egnatia Motorway was designed according to the specifications of the Trans-European road nelwork.It is a closed double carriageway motorway 680 kilometres long, with two lanes plus an emergency lane on either side ...
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Landscape design in Athens during the preparation of the Olympic Games in 2004: project implementation & maintenance
(World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), 2005)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 ...
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Landscape Design of the Peripheral Zone of the Frakto Virgin Forest (Drama-Greece)
(1998)Environmental planning must involve, among other things, the regulation and control of land use. In the case of forest environments, forest use and activities such as forest recreation and so on should contain environmental ...
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Landscape Evaluation for an Urban Park in Athens
(World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), 2005)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 ...
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Landscape in Athens due to the Olympic Games in 2004
(2004)During the preparation of Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, many changes have been applied in Old Landscape e.g. parks, city squares, pedestrian roads.In addition New Landscapes have been contracted, especially around the main ...
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Landscape Model Making: An Archetypal Design Medium Reevaluated in a Digital Age
(2015)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 ...
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Landscape Preference Evaluation for Hospital Environmental Design
(SciRes, 2011)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 ...
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Landscape Preference Evaluation for Therapeutical Gardens
(WSEAS (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society), 2005)The present paper deals with the usefulness of outdoor spaces of nursing institutions which we name "therapeutic" gardens. A therapeutic garden offers a locality where the patients and their healers might achieve the ...
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Landscape Restoration Strategy and the reduction of Environmental Impact to the road constructions in Greek Landscapes
(2002)Greece has a long history of road constructions. The mountain roads represent some of the most dramatic in Europe. However most of these roads have been built with little attempt to reduce environmental impacts, reflecting ...
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Landscaping Parking Lots
(WSEAS (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society), 2005-05)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 ...
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Like a Rolling Stone
(Άνδρεας Χατζηθωμάς, 2019-07)Τον Buster Keaton (Οκτώμβριος 1895 - Φεβρουάριος 1966) ηθοποιό και σκηνοθέτη του βωβού κινηματογράφου, διέκρινε ένα βασικό γνώρισμα. Σε όλες τις ταινίες του, ανεξάρτητα απο την θεματολογία ή την πλοκή, η έκφραση του προσώπου ...
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Liquid Waste Management Practises for Addressing Salinity Problems When Irrigating Urban Green Areas-Guidelines for Landascaping
(WSEAS (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society), 2005)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 ...
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Literary and Intellectual Life in Byzantine Thessaloniki, Queen of the Worthy Thessaloniki. History and Culture, vol. II
(1997)This passage from the Acts οί the Αροsties shows how, in the very first years of the Christian era, the city received the message which was to become the predominant doctrine in its intellectual and spiritual life, and ...
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Literature Review
(Shock and Vibration Information Center, 1989)This paper forms a literature survey on lumped and distributed parameter, linear, viscously damped, dynamic systems, possessing non-classical modes.
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Lumped Systems with Nonproportional Damping
(1988)The time domain response of non-proportionally damped or non-classical normal mode or non-Rayleigh linear lumped parameter systems, as otherwise called, is derived. Modal analysis is used to transform the governing equations ...