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A Preliminary Study on Urban Pollution and Modern Shanghai Society

  • Lu, Ye
    • Journal of East-Asian Urban History
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.7-26
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    • 2020
  • Urban pollution has been a problem in China since ancient times. In modern times, pollution was aggravated by industrialization and urbanization and became closely related to people's lives. Shanghai was the industrial center and the most urbanized place of modern China. As a price, it needed to face extremely serious urban pollution, and the treatment of this problem involved all aspects of social life. Noise pollution let foreigners to interpret the Chinese people and the city of Shanghai from a cultural perspective, and let Chinese residents to understand Shanghai and the nation from a civilized perspective. Pollution regulation made Shanghai the first city in modern China to implement overall pollution control and levy environmental protection fees. It also enabled the Chinese to gradually fight for their rights in urban governance. Urban pollution also brought business opportunities; in the highly commercial city of Shanghai, it promoted the development of some industries. The experience of urban pollution and its treatment prompted the people of Shanghai to rethink and re-recognize modern civilization, and also promoted the formation of Shanghai urban community.

Prediction of City-Scale Building Energy and Emissions: Toward Sustainable Cities

  • KIM, Dong-Soo;Srinivasan, Ravi S.
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.723-727
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    • 2015
  • Building energy use estimation relies on building characteristics, its energy systems, occupants, and weather. Energy estimation of new buildings is considerably an easy task when compared to modeling existing buildings as they require calibration with actual data. Particularly, when energy estimation of existing building stock is warranted at a city-scale, the problem is exacerbated owing to lack of construction drawings and other engineering specifications. However, as collection of buildings and other infrastructure constitute cities, such predictions are a necessary component of developing and maintaining sustainable cities. This paper uses Artificial Neural Network techniques to predict electricity consumption for residential buildings situated in the City of Gainesville, Florida. With the use of 32,813 samples of data vectors that comprise of building floor area, built year, number of stories, and range of monthly energy consumption, this paper extends the prediction to environmental impact assessment of electricity usage at the urban-scale. Among others, one of the applications of the proposed model discussed in this paper is the study of urban scale Life Cycle Assessment, and other decisions related to creating sustainable cities.

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Exploratory Study on the Effects of City characteristics on City Brand Personality and City Evaluation (도시특성평가가 도시브랜드개성과 도시태도에 미치는 영향에 대한 탐색적 연구)

  • Yoo, Changjo;Hwang, Tae Gyu;Lee, Sang Hyun
    • Asia Marketing Journal
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.31-57
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the antecedents of city brand personality and those effects on city brand personality and attitude toward city. This study attempts to confirm dimensions of city characteristics and city brand personality, and analyze the structural relationships among the city characteristics, city brand personality and attitude toward city. The result showed that various characteristics of city (culture and historic characteristics, life stability, facility convenience, economic factors, the image of city appearance, nature friendly characteristics) influence city brand personalities. In addition, city brand personalities (vivid personality and stable personality) are positively related to attitude toward city and mediated between the characteristics of city and attitude toward city.

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A Emergency Sound Detecting Method for Smarter City (스마트 시티에서의 이머전시 사운드 감지방법)

  • Cho, Young-Im
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.1143-1149
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    • 2010
  • Because the noise is the main cause for decreasing the performance at speech recognition, the place or environment is very important in speech recognition. To improve the speech recognition performance in the real situations where various extraneous noises are abundant, a novel combination of FIR and Wiener filters is proposed and experimented. The combination resulted in improved accuracy and reduced processing time, enabling fast analysis and response in emergency situations. Usually, there are many dangerous situations in our city life, so for the smarter city it is necessary to detect many types of sound in various environment. Therefore this paper is about how to detect many types of sound in real city, especially on CCTV. This paper is for implementing the smarter city by detecting many types of sounds and filtering one of the emergency sound in this sound stream. And then it can be possible to handle with the emergency or dangerous situation.

An Analysis of the Enclosed Housing Cluster Type of Louis de Soissons (루이 드 스와송의 에워싼 주택배치 유형 해석)

  • Sohn, Sei-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2006
  • Welwyn Garden City benefits from the greater design cohesion and management of development which gave it a more distinctive 'brand image' almost from the outset than its older garden city(Letchworth, Hampstead). Its planner, Louis de Soissons, brought a more obvious sense of traditional formal urbanism to the design of the second garden city. This was rather different to the distinctive but rather more informal arts and crafts approach of Raymond Unwin. Here it attempts to analyze how they greatly and firmly established the concept of Housing Group in the residential design, and what similar elements between Unwin and de Soissons in the New Town planning. It is pointed out that the Housing Group theory is composed of recognizing urban life as totality, and group planning theory, and that they definitely originated a new technique in the residential area. It is analyzed that the syntactic relations between the group planning theory and enclosed housing cluster designs in the English garden city are epitomized in Welwyn Garden City.

A study on the reorganization of subway station as the extended space of city activities - Focused on the case of Hong-Ik university subway station - (도시 활동의 연장 공간으로서의 지하철역 재구성에 관한 디자인연구 - 홍대 전철역을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Sun-Min;Kim, Kwang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.46-50
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    • 2005
  • In the contemporary city, which is an information-oriented society, human is evolving for responding to the various situation. Because the city has changed into the multi-layered network system, which is different from the paths in the past, the paths in the city have become the usual space of life. The active programmed space which is corresponding to citizen's spontaneous activities should be reflected in the path of city However, the current subway station, which is the main path of the city, is not equipped with the elements responding to the various possibilities of citizens. So this study suggests the programmed station as the extended space of citizen's daily lives.

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DEVELOPMENT OF COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED OPERATION OF U-SPACE

  • Sang-Hun Paek;Jeong-Nam Lee;Jae-Hee Cho;In-Shick Song;Sang-Chae Lim;Kyoon-Tai Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1377-1382
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    • 2009
  • U-City related researches and development have been actively conducted in Korea since 2002. According to the Act on Ubiquitous City Construction, "U-City" is defined as "the city to provide ubiquitous service anytime anywhere through the existing ubiquitous backbone systems and ubiquitous technologies, ultimately for the purpose of improving urban competitiveness and quality of life. This research explains the plan to develop collective management technology for integrated operation of U-Space which makes up U-City. Specifically, this report is intended to suggest basic approach of identifying collective management elements of each U-Space type, developing integrated management system and creating interface module to link the system with urban integrated operation center.

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A Study on the Overseas Expansion Strategy of u-City based on BIM/GIS (BIM/GIS 기반 u-City 해외진출 전략 연구)

  • Na, Joon Yeop;Lee, Woo Sik;Hong, Chang Hee;Hwang, Jung Rae
    • Spatial Information Research
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.119-127
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    • 2012
  • u-City is next generation city which can innovate functions of city. It can realize increase of convenience, improvement of life quality and safety guarantee by convergence of information technologies and ubiquitous service with urban space. Market of u-City is in range of rapid growth and u-City can make enormous synergy effects by accompanying construction technologies with spatial information, sensor technologies, communications network and related equipments. In this study, we analyzed the domestic/abroad status, researches and element technologies involved in u-City. And, we suggested overseas expansion strategy of u-City such as selection and analysis of target nations, packaging method of u-City service models and application of BIM/GIS connection technologies in terms of u-City construction and operation.

A Study on Eating Behaviors and Food Preferences of the Workers at Transportation Business in Daegu Areas by Work Site (대구지역 운수종사자의 영업지역별 식행동 특성 및 음식 기호도 조사 연구)

  • 김정숙
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.311-319
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    • 2000
  • This study was to investigate eating behaviors and food preferences of the worker at transportation business in Daegu areas by work site. The survey was performed by questionnaires from July 13 to August 25, 1999 against 353 of males. As a general factor, the subjects of survey were male drivers in their forties to fifties. Their education level was middle school (46.5%) and high school (47.3%) diploma. The subjects were composed of 44.2% of city workers and 55.5% of suburban workers. This study showed that the city workers eat three meals per day with high percentage (92.9%) and a large number of suburban workers (21.3%) eat two meals only. Most of the subjects 782.% responded that their diet life were irregular due to the property of their job. The food preferences of most of workers (94.9%) were Korean food rather than any other foods. Frequency of eating-out was much higher in city drivers than in suburban drivers. They considered taste of food firstly and the prices of food secondly, but the nutritional value of food was considered with a very low percentage (14.7%). Their favorite menu turned out to be the Korean style one-dish food, of those one-dish Koran food, they preferred rice or soup to the noodles. These results suggest that he nutritional education against the workers at transportation business is needed to set the proper menu considering the characteristics of the preference each group of workers.

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