On the comparative financial and risk analysis of urban development projects: the case of Athens' Hellinikon airport

<p>In 1840, the inauguration of the Great Western Railway in South England connecting London and Bristol, changed part of the outskirts of Bristol to a major railway hub and home of many rail-related activities. An area behind the station in between the railway, the River Avon and the Bath road, known as Temple Island, became restricted to rail use (workshops, depots or sheds) for more than 150 years, making it inaccessible and unattractive as the railway use decreased. The transformation of this area into a new centrally located neighbourhood is one of the most important urban development projects currently planned in Bristol. The new St Philips footbridge spans the River Avon, contributing to accessibility to the site and increasing the sustainable transport network of the city. The bridge, a 50m-span and 4-m wide steel beam with a forked geometry, seamlessly hosts a ramp for disabled and cyclists and a staircase to maximise functionality. The design approach to generate its shape was at the same time structural, aesthetical, and functional, innovatively solving a complex crossing problem.</p>

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HISTORICAL FORTIFICATIONS IN THE ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN PLANNING STRUCTURE OF LVIV (ON MARGINES DOCUMENTATION "HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL REFERENCE PLAN OF LVIV")

Architectural Studies ◽

10.23939/as2021.02.105 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 105-125

Author(s):

Bevz M ◽

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Development ◽

Residential Development ◽

Development Projects ◽

City Center ◽

Military Engineer ◽

Ancient City ◽

Special Scientific ◽

Design Documentation ◽

The City

Ancient city fortifications are one of the specific types of defensive architecture. Along with the buildings of castles, blocks of urban residential development, monastery complexes and field defensive structures, they formed a special type of architectural and urban planning objects. During their construction, the skills of both an architect, builder, and military engineer were often combined. Not so many objects of urban defense architecture have come down to our time. Therefore, every fragment of the city's defensive walls and earthen fortifications preserved today, as a rule, is a valuable document of its era and needs careful protection and preservation. Urban fortifications (as opposed to fortifications of castles or fortresses) were the objects of priority liquidation in the process of urban development. There are very few of them preserved in Ukraine, so their preservation and study is a matter of extreme importance. Lviv is a unique city on the map of Ukraine in terms of the development of urban fortifications. The article analyzes the reflection of objects and monuments of defense construction in the scientific and design documentation "Historical and Architectural Reference Plan of the City of Lviv". Data on the stages of development of Lviv fortifications are highlighted. Special attention is paid to the remains of fortifications that have been preserved in the archaeological form. Their identification, conservation and identification is important task for modern urban development projects. The paper makes hypotheses about some hitherto unidentified elements of fortifications of the XVII-XVIII centuries. Special emphasis is placed on the need for a special scientific study on the detailed reconstruction of all stages of the development of defense belts around the city center and suburbs of Lviv

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Peace, reconstruction and the project cycle in urban development projects

Urban Forum ◽

10.1007/bf03036594 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 93-101

Author(s):

Doug Hindson ◽

Mark Swilling ◽

Colin Appleton

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Development Projects ◽

Project Cycle

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‘City Air Makes You Free’. Cultural Dimensions and Application of Urban Development Projects in Western Trans-Danubia

International Climate Protection ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-03816-8_24 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 191-201

Author(s):

Béla Bakó

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Cultural Dimensions ◽

Development Projects

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HISTORICAL RESEARCH OF MODERNISM IN AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE OF LOW-RISE SOCIAL HOUSING

Construction Materials and Products ◽

10.34031/2618-7183-2020-3-2-55-62 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 55-62

Author(s):

Da Fonseka Vera Kruzh Morzhadinu

Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Social Housing ◽

Historical Research ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Development Projects ◽

The World ◽

Modernist Architecture ◽

Artistic Styles ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

The Way

the purpose of this study is to examine the emergence of modernism as a cultural response to the conditions of modernity to change the way people live, work and react to the world around them. In this regard, the following tasks were formulated: 1) study the development of modernism on the world stage, 2) identify its universal features, and 3) analyze how the independence of Central and sub-Saharan Africa in the 1950s and 1960s coincided with a particularly bright period of modernist architecture in the region, when many young countries studied and asserted their identity in art. The article analyzes several objects of modernist architecture in Africa: urban development projects in Casablanca (Morocco), Asmara (Eritrea), Ngambo (Tanzania). The main features and characteristics of modernism which were manifested in the African architecture of the XX century are also formulated. It is concluded that African modernism is developed in line with the international modernist trend. It is also summarized that modernism which differs from previous artistic styles and turned out to be a radical revolution in art is their natural successor.

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