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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 ...
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Macroeconomic Influences on Cyprus House Prices
(2015-08)This paper attempts to explain the determinants of intertemporal variations in housing prices in Cyprus over the period spanning from the first quarter of 2006 until the second quarter of 2014. The analysis focuses on ...
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Minimizing the Torsional Response of RC Buildings Under Earthquake Loading
(South-East European Conference on Computational Mechanics, 2006)In this work a number of design approaches for 3D Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings are formulated as structural optimization problems and are assessed in terms of the performance under earthquake loading. In particular ...
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Monitoring Thermal Comfort in Outdoor Urban Spaces for Bioclimatic Conditions Improvement
(2008-06)This paper examines the microclimatic conditions and the feeling of thermal comfort in two different open spaces in the town of Drama, through constant record of the environmental parameters of temperature and relative ...
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Multicultural Nicosia: searching for a common cultural identity in east Mediterranean Basin
(International Conference on Change Cities II, 2015-06-22)This article intends to investigate in a theoretical framework the possible expansion of Place Branding in a cross-border and inter-national basis in order to develop partnerships and to strengthen the relationships between ...
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Natural Landscapes of Cyprus as Educational Design Tools to Understand Form and Space
(2015)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 ...
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Nature Inspired Form Finding Strategies Assessment using Genetic Algorithms
(IEEE Computer Society, 2015)In this work, several topology generation procedures have been implemented on architectural surfaces combined with urban forms. Delaunay triangulation, Voronoi diagrams and the recently proposed [1, 2, 3] Voronax diagram, ...