scholarly journals Retrofitting Passive Cooling Strategies to a Brisbane School: A Case Study of the Physical and Social Aspects

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Kuiri
Keyword(s):  
Social Aspects ◽  
Passive Cooling ◽  
Cooling Strategies

Neighborhoods as Service Providers: A Methodology for Evaluating Pedestrian Access

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Talen
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Neighborhood Scale

Research on neighborhoods is dominated by a focus on the social aspects of neighborhood life. The ability of neighborhoods to function as service providers is a critical and understudied aspect of neighborhood research. This paper offers a methodological contribution of the analysis of neighborhoods as service providers. Provision of services is defined in terms of accessibility, or the spatial proximities between residents and the facilities. Because the focus is on neighborhoods, access is defined on the basis of the pedestrian rather than the automobile. In addition, the needs of the neighborhood population are considered. A case study of Portland, Oregon, is used to demonstrate how an evaluation of pedestrian access could be conducted at the neighborhood scale.

Knowledge Intensive Regeneration versus Sustainable Communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yusuf Arayici ◽  
Zafer Ozturk
Keyword(s):  
Social Aspects ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Industrial Age ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Economic Requirement

Regeneration is deemed as the enabler for societies and nations to transform them from industrial age to knowledge. In this regard, knowledge intensive regeneration is one of the latest models, called as New Century Cities (NCC) to make progress and ultimately achieve the transformation towards knowledge societies, which have the features and characteristics of sustainable communities. However, meeting the key features or characteristics of sustainable communities can be challenging due to its complex and interrelated features such as socio-economic requirement, environmental and physical requirements, which are all correlated to each other. This paper aims to discuss the knowledge intensive regeneration model in relation to the sustainable communities in order to highlight the level of match and conformance between them in order to justify the suitability of knowledge intensive regeneration for the sustainable communities' vision. Research methodology adopted in the paper is the case study approach, which is the Mediacity project, and used literature review, observation and interviews for data collection, while concept mapping was utilised for data analysis. Research findings reflect that the level of conformance is relatively high, social aspects is still weakly addressed in comparison to other dimensions. Therefore, paper proposes the stronger attention and strategic planning at the visioning and masterplanning stages of such projects in order to address this most challenging dimension of regeneration projects.

scholarly journals A Case Study on Technical and Social Aspects of Earth Houses in Rural India

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Kulshreshtha ◽  
P. J. Vardon ◽  
N. J. A. Mota ◽  
M. C. M. van Loosdrecht ◽  
H. M. Jonkers
Keyword(s):  
Social Aspects ◽  
Rural India

scholarly journals Urban River Reserve Potentials as Passive Cooling Strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 05006
Author(s):  
Siti Rahmah Omar ◽  
Johan Sohaili ◽  
Nur Hidayah Abd Rahman ◽  
Norhazren Izatie Mohd
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Urban River ◽  
Passive Cooling ◽  
Cooling Strategies ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Physical Attributes

In Malaysia, urban riparian refers to river reserve that reflects green space. As surviving greenery space amidst concrete jungle, urban riparian is essential for safe-keeping the river health, the surrounding environment, and the well-being of urbanites. The existing developments found by the Malaysian riversides are already in place prior to river reserves establishment, thus constricting expansion and synchronisation due to its guidelines applied in isolation within several related agencies. Prior studies have highlighted the potential of riparian vegetation as a viable method that lowers the temperature within urban space. Hence, this paper probes into the potential of river reserve as a passive cooling strategy by determining the vegetation technical requirements from the light of urban river physical planning and design guidelines in Malaysia. Thus, this study outlines the possibility of integration by comparing vegetation requirements for river buffer with vegetation function and ability in altering radiation, as well as heat transfer, through physical attributes. By focusing on vegetation physical structure, the riparian area can attain multiple functions and benefits. Thus, this finding serves as a basis for integration of passive cooling strategies with vegetation requirements for urban river reserve, and for further studies that investigate other essential physical attributes.

Measuring the Success of Social Software Adoption in the Firm

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Steinhüser ◽  
Stefan Smolnik ◽  
Uwe Hoppe
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Social Software ◽  
Is Success ◽  
Software Adoption ◽  
The People ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Theoretic Foundations

Recently, the use of social software has gained enormous popularity in many organizations. However, despite its development from a trend topic to a well established technology, there is little theoretical study on how to measure the success of this kind of information system. Allowing for the unique characteristics of social software, the author assumes that existing IS success models are not applicable to social software without modifications. Therefore, this article aims to develop a model for measuring social software success, which is based on theoretic foundations and the findings of a multiple case study. Results show that existing models are not able to represent all dimensions which are relevant in this context. Especially social aspects related to the organization and the people within have to be taken into account.

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