Browsing School of Architecture, Land and Environmental Sciences by Title
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Creating Landscape on a Roof
(Landscape Architecture Department Drama – Greece, 2009)The Department of landscape Architecture at the Technological Educational Institute of Kavala – Drama has for the last three years successfully organised International Landscape Workshops, attracting academics, professionals ...
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Critical analysis of the official Greek urban planning indicatorsof private uses
(2015-01)The aim of the article is to review the official Greek target indicators, i.e. those standards that are included in the current planning legislation ( Official Government Gazette 285/D/5.3, 2004), and are used for the ...
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Defining the unitary types of urban uses: urban uses, land uses and land-use zones
(Survey Review, 2018)It is clear that urban planning is not a theoretical science, but an applied field. However, this does not imply – or justify – the lack of an analytical field that would lay the scientific foundations of urban planning ...
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Developing new educational facilities in cities or large municipalities using GIS: a case study in Thessaloniki, Greece
(International Journal of Arts & Sciences, 2011)This study presents the modeling of the system of educational facilities included in a large city or a municipality, to facilitate a decision regarding the optimum location of a new educational facility. As will be shown, ...
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Different Contribution of Olive Groves and Citrus Orchards to Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration: A Field Study in Four Sites in Crete, Greece
(MDPI, 2023-01-12)In this work, we evaluated the effects of cultivation practices and sites (representing four locations in Crete, Greece) on soil organic carbon sequestration in established citrus orchards, olive groves, and uncultivated ...
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Earthquake resistant optimum design of 3d reinforced concrete buildings
(WCCM, 2006)Designing earthquake resistant structures has been the subject of great concern among engineers and scientists. The vertical seismic resisting elements in particular, in connection with the beam and the plates in a reinforced ...
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Edible landscaping as an environmental policy tool for urban cities under crisis: Cases studies from Greece
(INU Editioni, 2014)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 ...
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Employment Opportunities for NEETs in Short-Term Rentals Operated Through Sharing Platforms: A Case Study Across Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus
(David Publishing, 2021)The paper at hand explores whether short-term rentals (STRs), operated through sharing platforms, can provide employment opportunities to young people that are Not in Employment, Education and Training (NEETs) and whether ...
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The Environmental Awareness Park "Antonis Tritsis" in Athens: redesigning its role and form
(2013)The importance of green spaces and their benefits for large urban centers is well recognized. In the basin of Athens in Greece, a built-up urban environment, the lack of environmental planning has resulted the lack of ...
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Environmental perceptions of landscape values around the lake Kastoria western Macedonia Greece
(2005)The report aims to improve environmental management by intergrating and making more accessible to managers the information on environmental perceptions of the landscape in Kastoria Western Macedonia. First a literature ...
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Experiments in Place-Making: re-thinking Pafos for 2017
(2015)The network of spatial interventions proposed for the Pafos2017 “Open Air Factory” was not conceived as a mere series of sites for events, but as a place-making tool for re-defining the identity of Pafos and re-directing ...
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Form finding of architectural artifacts using genetic algorithms. A novel approach of handling parametric objects as design variables
(2016)This work aims to contribute on the form finding techniques of generative space artifacts, considering objects of parametric design as programming objects, and in particular design variables –due to parametric approach- ...
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Formal Strategies of Familiarization and de-Familiarization
(University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 2021-03)In the first-year design studios, discussions on form tend to be avoided; for those un-initiated in architectural thinking, forms may easily be associated with stylistic or aesthetic pursuits, far removed from the conceptual ...
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Frequency Response of Nonproportionally Damped, Lumped Parameter, Linear Dynamic Systems
(Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound, 1990)The frequency response of nonproportionally (or nonclassically or non-Raleigh) damped linear lumped mass systems is discussed here. The exact method, via Laplace transforms, is presented and the practical difficulties ...
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The further environmental development of Polyphyto Hydroelectric Project reservoir in Kozani prefecture and Its contribution to the life quality improvement
(2014)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 ...
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GAD: The fortune of Garden Art Design/ Avant – garde
(Zografou Municipal Enterprise of Development (DEADIZ), 2011)People have always admired a sculpture whether it was in a prominent place or simply appear in a corner somewhere. The GAD project tackled an emerging cultural challenge defined by contemporary trends for integrated ...
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The General Valuation 2013 in Cyprus: Experiences and Good Practices
(FIG-OICRF, 2015)The General Valuation has a very significant role to play in Cyprus’ economic environment because it forms the basis by which all property taxes are levied. It is considered as a very important land management tool, as ...
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Grafton architects και βραβείο Pritzker 2020
(Ανδρέας Χατζηθωμάς, 2020-10)Ακολουθώντας μια συνήθη πρακτική, το φετινό Βραβείο Pritzker 2020, το αντίστοιχο NobeI για την Αρχιτεκτονική, δόθηκε στους GRAFTON ARCHITECTS, ένα αρχιτεκτονικό γραφείο με έδρα το Δουβλίνο . Η συνήθης πρακτική αφορά ...
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The Greenways in Athens
(2010-06)Greenways are corridors of undevoped land in a city setting. They include vegeration belts, creeks, rivers,floodplains and other natural features along public infrastructures. Public infrastructures consist of utility ...
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The Growth of Palms under Sheltered Mediterranean Conditions
(The International Palm Society, 2005)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 ...