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A historical overview and critical analysis of town centre delimitation methodologies
(Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2014-02-14)The article aims at exploring the literature on town centre delimitation methods over the last sixty years. Specifically, the first section explores the content of the term town centre, while the second one proposes an ...
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Historical tour of tour-ism in cyprus
(Ministry of education and culture of the republic of Cyprus, 2012-08-29)The tourist industry in Cyprus, from its early beginning until now, has traveled a path of more than one century. Tourism on the island makes its first steps during the British rule. It establishes itself as an influential ...
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Images of domestic suburbia in greek films of the 50's and 60's
(Dakam, 2017-03)The paper is an attempt to approach the imaginary dimension of ‘making a home’ in the urban periphery; in sites that are still under construction, in places whose character is still undefined and fleeting. ‘Making a home’ ...
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The impact of park trees on microclimate in urban areas
(Springer Verlag, 2006)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 ...
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An interdisciplinary study on indicators: A comparative review ofquality-of-life, macroeconomic, environmental, welfare andsustainability indicators
(Elsevier, 2013-06-10)It is generally recognised that indicator-based research forms a substantial part both of the everyday practice and of the current theoretical pursuits in an extensive set of different scientific fields that relate to the ...
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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 ...