Essays about: "urban block"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 84 essays containing the words urban block.

  1. 1. Community Continuity Management : An Exploration of the Energy Production and Use of a Fictional Stockholm Neighbourhood in a Crisis

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Nils Brattgård; [2023]
    Keywords : Business Continuity Management; Community Continuity Management; Energy Community; Energy Resilience; Energy; Resilience; Preparedness; Adaptation; Wellness; Wellbeing; Blackout; Power Failure; High Impact Low Probability; Crisis; Disaster; Kontinuitetshantering; Community Continuity Management; Energigemenskap; Energiresiliens; Energi; Resiliens; Beredskap; Anpassning; Välmående; Välbefinnande; Strömavbrott; Elkris; High Impact Low Probability; Kris; Katastrof;

    Abstract : In an increasingly interconnected, and electricity-reliant world, households are asked to build up their resilience to crises. Local, distributed electricity production within a microgrid with capability to operate disconnected from the larger grid has been shown to be an effective tool for increasing power system resilience in the past. READ MORE

  3. 2. Betydelsen av artvariation i Malmös alléer : artvariation på olika skalor för förebyggandet av sjukdomar och skadegörare

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Jennifer Eliasson; [2023]
    Keywords : trädsjukdom; skadegörare; almsjukan; asiatiska långhorningen; matt stjärnhimmelsbock; urban miljö; växtval; artvariation; heterogena alléer; landskapsarkitektur;

    Abstract : Trädsjukdomar som almsjukan påverkade och medgav stora förluster i trädbeståndet i många av världens städer. I Malmös offentliga miljö försvann närmare 40 000 almar inom loppet om 30 år. READ MORE

  4. 3. Towards a new aesthetics of care : a critical reading of Nassauer’s cues to care

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Jack Richold; [2023]
    Keywords : cues to care; Joan Nassauer; Timothy Morton; strange stranger; sublime; scenic; broken windows; ecological function; aesthetics of care; design through maintenance;

    Abstract : Joan Nassauer’s concept of cues to care has been influential within landscape design since her seminal essay Messy Ecosystems, Orderly Frames was published in 1995 and her research is often used to justify the need for marking landscapes as owned, although there have been critical voices too. The enduring popularity of cues to care as a design method is due to how open it is to interpretation, and this thesis examines various landscape interventions that can be classed as cues to care, both explicitly and implicitly. READ MORE

  5. 4. Selective Kernel Network based Crowding Counting and Crowd Density Estimation

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Jinchen Liu; [2023]
    Keywords : Crowding Counting; Convolution Neural Network; Selective kernel; Trängselräkning; konvolutionsneuralnätverk; Selektiv kärna;

    Abstract : Managing crowd density has become an immense challenge for public authorities due to population growth and evolving human dynamics. Crowd counting estimates the number of individuals in a given area or scene, making it a practical technique applicable in real-world scenarios such as surveillance and traffic control. READ MORE

  6. 5. Grätzltransformation - Implementing the Superblock 2.0

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Katharina Deisting; [2022]
    Keywords : Superblock HumanScale Transformation TacticalUrbanism Climateadaptation ; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report published in 2021 shows that global warming and its consequences progress at a rapid rate. (Masson-Delmotte, V. et al. 2021, p. READ MORE