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Christopher Tweed - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ontologies in Urban Development Projects
2011Co-Authors: Gilles Falquet, Jacques Teller, Claudine Mtral, Christopher TweedAbstract:Ontologies are increasingly recognized as essential tools in information science. Although the concepts are well understood theoretically , the practical implementation of ontologies remains challenging. In this book, researchers in computer science, information systems, ontology engineering, Urban planning and design, civil and building engineering, and architecture present an interdisciplinary study of ontology engineering and its application in Urban Development projects. The first part of the book introduces the general notion of ontology, describing variations in abstraction level, coverage, and formality. It also discusses the use of ontologies to achieve interoperability, and to represent multiple points of view and multilingualism. This is illustrated with examples from the Urban domain. The second part is specific to Urban Development. It covers spatial and geographical knowledge representation, the creation of Urban ontologies from various knowledge sources, the interconnection of Urban models and the interaction between standards and domain models. The third part presents case studies of the Development of ontologies for Urban mobility, Urban morphological processes, road systems, and cultural heritage. Other cases report on the use of ontologies to solve Urban Development problems, in construction business models, building regulations and Urban regeneration. It concludes with a discussion of key challenges for the future deployment of ontologies in this domain. This book bridges the gap between Urban practitioners and computer scientists. As the essence of most Urban projects lies in making connections between worldviews, ontology Development has an important role to play, in promoting interoperability between data sources, both formal (Urban databases, Building Integrated Models, Geographical Information Systems etc.) and less formal (thesauri, text records, web sources etc.). This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to ontology engineering for Urban Development. It is essential reading for practitioners and ontology designers working in Urban Development.
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built cultural heritage and sustainable Urban Development
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2007Co-Authors: Christopher Tweed, Margaret SutherlandAbstract:Abstract Current debates about Urban sustainability tend to focus on technical issues, such as carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste management, or on the economic aspects of Urban regeneration and growth. Increasingly, however, governments recognise the contribution that built cultural heritage makes to the social well-being of different groups living within increasingly cosmopolitan towns and cities. Heritage is seen as a major component of quality of life, but the two main methods of identifying and protecting built heritage – the listing of individual monuments and buildings and designation of conservation areas – are unable to deal with less tangible features of townscape, such as street patterns. Yet it is often precisely these features that give a city its unique character and provide the sense of belonging that lies at the core of cultural identity. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to examine the role that built cultural heritage can play within sustainable Urban Development. The paper considers changing definitions of built heritage before outlining the broad contribution it can make to sustainable Urban Development. The paper then considers how the built environment contributes to the satisfaction of human needs by providing symbolic meanings that bind cultural groups and communities across generations. Results from the Development and application of a novel survey method, designed to assess different people's perceptions of and attitudes to Urban historical areas, are presented before describing a case study of recent Urban Development in Belfast that highlights the problems of intangible heritage. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of shortcomings of existing approaches to Urban regeneration and suggests how these might be overcome through a greater understanding of how people interact with the Urban environment and its heritage.
Biswajeet Pradhan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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suitability estimation for Urban Development using multi hazard assessment map
Science of The Total Environment, 2017Co-Authors: George D Bathrellos, Hariklia D Skilodimou, K Chousianitis, Ahmed M Youssef, Biswajeet PradhanAbstract:Abstract Preparation of natural hazards maps are vital and essential for Urban Development. The main scope of this study is to synthesize natural hazard maps in a single multi-hazard map and thus to identify suitable areas for the Urban Development. The study area is the drainage basin of Xerias stream (Northeastern Peloponnesus, Greece) that has frequently suffered damages from landslides, floods and earthquakes. Landslide, flood and seismic hazard assessment maps were separately generated and further combined by applying the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and utilizing a Geographical Information System (GIS) to produce a multi-hazard map. This map represents the potential suitability map for Urban Development in the study area and was evaluated by means of uncertainty analysis. The outcome revealed that the most suitable areas are distributed in the southern part of the study area, where the landslide, flood and seismic hazards are at low and very low level. The uncertainty analysis shows small differences on the spatial distribution of the suitability zones. The produced suitability map for Urban Development proves a satisfactory agreement between the suitability zones and the landslide and flood phenomena that have affected the study area. Finally, 40% of the existing Urban pattern boundaries and 60% of the current road network are located within the limits of low and very low suitability zones.
Wenjun Ma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Theories and Methods of Urban Development Programming: “Identifying Urban Development Programming Methodologies”
Current Urban Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Safiullah Rohani, Wenjun MaAbstract:Urban Development programming counted one of the major important stages of planning and design. Urban projects process still has not enough consideration to Urban Development programming stage. This step sometimes missed in Urban Development projects or confused with tasks of Urban Development planning. It has been slow to achieve full existence. Methodology and strategies of Urban Development do not set clear the limits to the mission of Urban Development programming. The knowledge about the Urban programming process and skilled programmers, architects or planners is one of the major issues of these days. This research investigates the concept of Urban Development programming in Urban projects, to indicate the separation of architectural programming and Urban programming tasks, and additionally, obtaining to innovate a new methodology and analyze the challenges and implementation. This methodology is determining the Urban Development programming task as well as strategies for implementation. The process of Urban Development programming and methods could give opportunities to programmers, planners, users, developers and Urban authorities to implement this major important phase in Urban projects. The research explicitly explains that Urban Development programming is a part of Urban Development planning and simplifying the process of planning.
Jacques Teller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ontologies for Urban Development - Ontologies for an Improved Communication in Urban Development Projects
Ontologies for Urban Development, 2020Co-Authors: Jacques TellerAbstract:The main objective of the COST Transport and Urban Development Action C21 is to increase the knowledge and promote the use of ontologies in the domain of Urban Development, in the view of facilitating the communications between information systems, stakeholders and Urban specialists at a European level. Secondary objectives of the Action are: • producing a taxonomy of ontologies in the Urban Development field, contrasting existing design methodologies, techniques and production standards; • developing an Urban Development ontology both in textual and visual (graph) presentation and a visual editor to integrate and update concepts, definition, photos into the ontology (software tool); • developing a set of guidelines for the construction of Urban Development ontologies, based on practical examples (cases); • analysing the role of ontologies in the daily practice of Urban Development. The research work has been organized along three working groups, the first one dealing more specifically with methodologies for developing Urban Development to practical applications of ontologies in the Urban Development field. straightforward way to define end-users’ needs in terms of Urban ontologies at the moment. Technology-driven approaches are not relevant as they would rapidly lead to restrict the research to the sole issue of computer representations while the ambitions of this Action extend far beyond this aspect. Furthermore conceptualizations are often tacit or implicit in the Urban Development domain and efforts to formalize these conceptualizations are generally viewed as “over-simplifications” by experts that are struggling to defend their scientific and technical legitimacy. It was hence suggested to adopt a “prospective approach” in order to better identify the potential role of ontologies in fostering the exchange and support of Urban knowledge. In a design-like perspective, the identification of “end-user needs” and relevant issues that could be addressed by ontologies in the Urban domain should hence be considered as a product rather than a starting point of this Action. The main parisons between European Urban Development cases and the third one dedicated It was soon acknowledged by the COST C21 members that there is no
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Ontologies in Urban Development Projects
2011Co-Authors: Gilles Falquet, Jacques Teller, Claudine Mtral, Christopher TweedAbstract:Ontologies are increasingly recognized as essential tools in information science. Although the concepts are well understood theoretically , the practical implementation of ontologies remains challenging. In this book, researchers in computer science, information systems, ontology engineering, Urban planning and design, civil and building engineering, and architecture present an interdisciplinary study of ontology engineering and its application in Urban Development projects. The first part of the book introduces the general notion of ontology, describing variations in abstraction level, coverage, and formality. It also discusses the use of ontologies to achieve interoperability, and to represent multiple points of view and multilingualism. This is illustrated with examples from the Urban domain. The second part is specific to Urban Development. It covers spatial and geographical knowledge representation, the creation of Urban ontologies from various knowledge sources, the interconnection of Urban models and the interaction between standards and domain models. The third part presents case studies of the Development of ontologies for Urban mobility, Urban morphological processes, road systems, and cultural heritage. Other cases report on the use of ontologies to solve Urban Development problems, in construction business models, building regulations and Urban regeneration. It concludes with a discussion of key challenges for the future deployment of ontologies in this domain. This book bridges the gap between Urban practitioners and computer scientists. As the essence of most Urban projects lies in making connections between worldviews, ontology Development has an important role to play, in promoting interoperability between data sources, both formal (Urban databases, Building Integrated Models, Geographical Information Systems etc.) and less formal (thesauri, text records, web sources etc.). This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to ontology engineering for Urban Development. It is essential reading for practitioners and ontology designers working in Urban Development.
Attila Józsa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Necessity of Planned Urban Development
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae European and Regional Studies, 2019Co-Authors: László Bajnai, Attila JózsaAbstract:Abstract The necessity of planned Urban Development might seem self-evident, but in reality is far from being so – particularly in former socialist countries turned into EU Member States such as Hungary or Romania. In Hungary, for instance, prior to EU accession, there was no generally accepted public opinion supporting the necessity of a planned Urban Development controlled by the public sector. However, the substantial resources – that in Hungary, e.g., involve impressive amounts – placed at the disposal of Urban Development within the framework of European Union Development policy are not sufficient by themselves to answer the question as to why planned Urban Development is truly necessary. Based on the most recent research results on the topic and some relevant earlier Hungarian and foreign studies lesser-known in Central Europe, the present paper seeks to answer this question. It analyses the international literature as well as certain Western European, Hungarian, and Romanian cases in order to define the general objectives of Urban planning and uses them as a starting-point to demonstrate the necessity of planned Urban Development.
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An Insight into Operational Urban Development in Hungary in the Light of Regulation-Based Urban Development
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: European and Regional Studies, 2018Co-Authors: László Bajnai, Attila JózsaAbstract:Abstract An operational Urban Development relying on the structured cooperation of the public and private sectors is indispensable to purposefully address the challenges posed by sustainable Development. Its evolution in Hungary may serve as inspiration for other countries as well. In the period preceding the regime change, it underwent a much more significant disruption as compared to regulation-based Urban Development. Afterwards, its methods, procedures, and instruments suitable for use in a democratic rule-of-law state and under market economy conditions had to be rebuilt from scratch. For this to happen, two external factors provided assistance: the French–Hungarian Urban Development cooperation and the EU. As a result, we could witness the successful Development of the methods as well as of the conceptual, strategic, and operational planning tools forming a coherent system of operational Urban Development planning carried through with the public sector’s physical intervention into the Urban tissue.
