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Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Multi-Productive Landscapes Of The Sustainable City: Opportunities For Managing Resource Needsthrough Urban Landscapes, N. Claire Napawan
Multi-Productive Landscapes Of The Sustainable City: Opportunities For Managing Resource Needsthrough Urban Landscapes, N. Claire Napawan
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
This paper aims to link concerns for providing resource needs to city dwellers by considering urban open spaces as a means for creating infrastructural landscapes which limit ecological footprints ofcities and provide relief from density. How cities and their inhabitants manage their urban infrastructure is a critical component towards the design of efficient and sustainable use of natural capital, as many infrastructural systems reach the end of their usefulness in an era where population growth demands surpass carrying capacity. This paper will trace historical progressions of western cities' resource management systems, theorize opportunities for alternative and sustainable strategies of landscape …
Greenery In Urban Environments: A Study Of Mysore City In India, Krishne Gowda, M. V. Sridhara, B. Mahendra
Greenery In Urban Environments: A Study Of Mysore City In India, Krishne Gowda, M. V. Sridhara, B. Mahendra
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
Preservation of nature is an integral part of urban planning. Well maintained greenery contributes immensely to social, economic, educational and ecological value, provides space for recreationand personal revitalization, attracts and retains investment for development, reduces noise and sultriness in summer, and enhances property value. Mysore is popularly known as a 'city of palaces and gardens'. The buildings in the city are architecturally beautiful and are endowed with well-maintained parks, open spaces, boulevards, and fountains. However, urban expansion is expected to continue unabated. One of the adverse effects of rapid and relative unplanned growth is heavy encroachment leading to the problem …
Rotterdam: Dynamic Polder City = Land + Water + Culture, F. L. Hooimeijer
Rotterdam: Dynamic Polder City = Land + Water + Culture, F. L. Hooimeijer
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
The planning culture in the Netherlands is based on the experience of building cities on very wet and soft soils. The design of Dutch polder cities was from early on a balance between land and water forbuilding site preparation. The relation between technological development and urban development can be ordered in six phases: natural (-1000), defensive (1000-1500), offensive (1500-1800), early manipulative (1800-1890), manipulative (1890-1990) and adaptive manipulative water management (1990-). Rotterdam is chosen to represent the heritage of Dutch talent with regard to the design and construction of water and land into dynamic cities. This is important because awareness and …
Urban Regeneration: Significance Of The Land - Water Interface And Its Manifestation In The Historic And Cultural Quarter Along Lake Pichola In Udaipur, S. Samant
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
The success of a waterfront city depends largely on the quality and balance of the land-water interface, so instrumental in the growth and development of a place and its identity. The aim of thisstudy is to critically examine the historic cultural quarter of Udaipur on the eastern edge of Lake Pichola, understand the forces that underpin current development and highlight key concerns by examining the existing state of the urban waterside. The main issues observed include economic growth through tourism, enhanced by the conservation of historic structures and the preservation of heritage. The past plays a fundamental role in urban …
Jakarta Waterscape:From Structuring Water To 21st Century Hybrid Nature?, Prathiwi W. Putri, Aryani Sari Rahmanti
Jakarta Waterscape:From Structuring Water To 21st Century Hybrid Nature?, Prathiwi W. Putri, Aryani Sari Rahmanti
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
This paper explores how changing conceptions of human-environment relationships have been materialized within Jakarta, Indonesia's planning and development practices and how these practices havecontributed to shaping today's problematic waterscape. By refusing the modern binary opposition of nature-culture and arguing that our city is a hybrid human-nonhuman nature, this paper shows that there have to be socio-technological solutions for the water sector's current problems. We center our chain of explanations on flooding without neglecting the fact that flooding is related to other water issues and broader issues of uneven spatial development. Hence, tackling the calamities of flooding has to be situated …
A Water Field Civilization: The Shifting Rural Territories Of Taiwan, Pei-Chun Wen
A Water Field Civilization: The Shifting Rural Territories Of Taiwan, Pei-Chun Wen
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
The Taiwanese countryside is representative of Asia's 'hydraulic civilization' and has a society based upon a water-orientated productive landscape. Its irrigation system of paddy fields and fish pondsis strongly interrelated to society's collective units, such as families or unions, which, in turn, structure social morals and behaviors. In a comparison of three different agriculture plains in Taiwan, interpretative maps reveal differences in the settlement patterns related to topography and water resource management. The critical reading of historical documentation and creation of interpretative maps reveals how early settlers solved water threats and managed to stabilize water sources. The study proposes a …
Agats:The Waterfront City Of The Asmat, Basauli Umar Lubis
Agats:The Waterfront City Of The Asmat, Basauli Umar Lubis
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
The development along and within the Asewets River presents the most characteristic and memorable city form of the city of Agats, Papua, Indonesia. The river and the city's raised roads form anintegrated circulation pattern and together played an important part in the development of the city. The city of Agats is unique in that all structures are built above wood or concrete pilings. The unique presence of the elevated bazaar street connects buildings likewise raised on piles. The structural elevation of the city above the ground keeps the settlement dry even during rainy season, when there is a 4 kilometer …
Urban Dynamism, A Contrasting Experience:Street Life In Unplanned Bangkok And Planned Melbourne, Sidh Sintusingha, Kasama Polakit, Richard Bruch
Urban Dynamism, A Contrasting Experience:Street Life In Unplanned Bangkok And Planned Melbourne, Sidh Sintusingha, Kasama Polakit, Richard Bruch
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
This paper investigates the notion of 'urban dynamism' through the conceived and lived street life of Bangkok, Thailand and Melbourne, Australia. Each city provides a contrasting experience, namelyBangkok's organic dynamism and the city's administrators varied attempts to control and organize it, and Melbourne's conscious planning and design to rejuvenate urban spaces, through the formal strategies of the Victorian State Government and the City of Melbourne.
The Ex-Coal Mining City Of Sawahlunto Revisited:Notions On Revitalization, Conservation And Urban Development, Widjaja Martokusumo
The Ex-Coal Mining City Of Sawahlunto Revisited:Notions On Revitalization, Conservation And Urban Development, Widjaja Martokusumo
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
The structural change of Sawahlunto, Indonesia from a mining-based to a tourism-based economy has triggered environmental problems and challenges. Revitalization combined with conservation efforts became a priority in order to maintain the cultural dynamics of the ex-coal mining city. Cultural heritage conservation utilizing the urban fabric and mining-related installations has been criticized due to its emphasis on beautification. This paper argues that historic urban fabric contributes significantly to place making but these endeavors need strong political leadership. The case of Sawahlunto reveals the important nexus between physical intervention, rehabilitation of socio-economic activities and the problem of institutional development, which is …
Art On Water: Art That Revitalizes Insular Communities Facing Depopulation And Economic Decline, Kentaro Yagi
Art On Water: Art That Revitalizes Insular Communities Facing Depopulation And Economic Decline, Kentaro Yagi
NAKHARA (Journal of Environmental Design and Planning)
The Inland Sea of Japan, once a flourishing cultural and economic artery, is now struggling with depopulation and economic decline. Traditionally, this area has been popular for public and privateart projects. Recent large-scale art projects and exhibitions on Naoshima Island and Inujima Island explored the possibilities of art in a public context. Site-specific artworks in collaboration with the local community have attracted visitors and brought about a favorable impact. Along with the rich historic and natural resources of the Inland Sea area, emerging art projects in various islands have started to revitalize the insular communities within.
Leadership, Libraries, Leed For The Future, Kathryn S. Ames, Greg Heid
Leadership, Libraries, Leed For The Future, Kathryn S. Ames, Greg Heid
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article discusses the use of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) principles in the design of the modern public library. It is stated that an LEED-certified library will have lower costs in energy, systems replacement and maintenance through the use of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting and efficient heating and air conditioning, but that due to special materials, the up-front expense is higher. The inspection of the facility throughout its construction is also noted.
Forsyth's Hampton Park Library To Open Early In 2010
Forsyth's Hampton Park Library To Open Early In 2010
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article features the opening of the Forsyth County Public Library branch in Hampton Park, southern Forsyth County, Georgia in February 2010. The 23,500 square-foot building will reportedly house a collection of 60,000 items including books, children's and adult educational digital video discs (DVDs), music compact discs (CDs) and multimedia programs. It is stated that the facility is environment friendly and has programmable thermostats for heating and cooling control.
Tifton Library Comes Home After Three-Year Renovation
Tifton Library Comes Home After Three-Year Renovation
Georgia Library Quarterly
The article features the rededication of the Tifton-Tift County Public Library in Georgia on November 1, 2009 after three years of renovation. A new building was reportedly built up and 1,830 square feet of space was added. It is stated that the old circular desk was divided for children's use and for reference and that the library features a new radio frequency identification system (RFID) system for circulation functions and a board room with Internet, kitchenette and restrooms.