Essays about: "rapid urbanization"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 145 essays containing the words rapid urbanization.

  1. 11. Entering the Hosh House: A Study of a Vanishing Baghdadi Dwelling Typology

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Karin Allvin; Jimmy Ibrahim; [2023]
    Keywords : Baghdad; traditional architecture; climate regulating architecture; preservation; historic documentation; dwelling; decline; typology research;

    Abstract : This research project explores the Hosh house typology, a historic dwelling type in Baghdad facing rapid decline and extinction. The study critically examines historic documentation and employs a wide range of methods to expand knowledge and understanding of the Hosh house. READ MORE

  3. 12. Bluegreengrey (BGG) solution for future climate and flood-resilient urban drainage network by enhancing the natural hydrological cycle

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Adnan Asif Rifat; [2023]
    Keywords : Bluegreengrey; Sustainable stormwater; Basement flooding; Urban flooding; Pipe Network; BGG; Climate change; Hydrology; Mike .; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : A loop of urbanization, increasing impervious surface in urban areas, increasing temperature, rainfall, surface runoff and flooding, and lack of new spaces have been adding challenges to urban drainage systems for decades. The climate change impacts are exposing the existing vulnerable conventional urban drainage systems to more challenges in the future. READ MORE

  4. 13. Monitoring Urbanization in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, using Multi-Temporal Sentinel-2 MSI Imagery and In-Situ Interviews

    University essay from KTH/Geoinformatik

    Author : William Ljungström Armah; [2023]
    Keywords : Remote Sensing; Urbanization; Urban Mapping; Land Cover; Secondary City; Low- and Middle-Income Countries; SDG 11; Supervised Classification; Minor Field Study;

    Abstract : Rapid urbanization is taking place in Low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Often there is not sufficient data monitoring the quick urban change. This study explores the use of machine learning classification within remote sensing to foster sustainable urban practices in a secondary city in an LMIC. READ MORE

  5. 14. Second Home, New Home

    University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljö

    Author : Minghui Li; [2023]
    Keywords : urban village; urban regeneration; informal employment migrants; public space;

    Abstract : As a unique form of rural-urban transition settlement in China’s rapid urbanization process, the “urban village” plays a very distinctive part in promoting urbanization, being a transit point for many rural people entering urban areas. The term “informal employment migrants” usually refers to those people, who have no formal employment status and work in informal, low-skilled, low-paying jobs in the city. READ MORE

  6. 15. Improving the heritage management of Nanjing City Wall: Local community participation as an effective approach

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

    Author : Yali Deng; [2022-07-05]
    Keywords : Urbanization; Cultural heritage; Nanjing city wall; Heritage management approaches;

    Abstract : The contradiction between the process of urbanization and the protection of cultural heritage is an unavoidable problem in the specific stage of social and economic development. While speeding up urban construction and improving residents' living conditions, we should pay great attention to the protection of urban historical and cultural heritage. READ MORE