General @ 06 Sep 2007 10:26 am by Niyi Oyeku
Environmental planning and management is meant to guide and control human use of resources and interaction with the environment, in order to be able to impose some certain restriction on the use of space and land resources, and to ensure that the environments intrinsic quality is not adversely affected. In other words, it is a conscious process of making decisions that are geared towards safeguarding resources from abuse or misuse by humans.
The overall goal is to ensure the sustainability of the use of the natural and human environments. In the same vein, the notion of sustainability implies that humans derive the maximum benefit from the environment, both economically and socially while at the same time maintaining its intrinsic quality. Thus, the concept of sustainable development simply implies that we must meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.
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General @ 27 Aug 2007 08:34 am by Niyi Oyeku
It has been stressed in many discourses, treatises and studies that the present challenges that city inhabitants, planners, managers, and policy makers have to deal with across the globe are quite tremendous and profoundly daunting, but I want to submit that the pervasive situations are not beyond the novel and innovative panacea that the modern information revolution and technological advancement can offer if adequately explore. Some of these challenges (both on local and global scale) are literally assuming alarming proportions and their attendant outcomes currently and in the future constitute a threat to conducive living, safety of lives and property in the biosphere. Specifically, the continual pollutions, deforestation, domestic and industrial waste hazards, urban slums, mobility difficulty, insecurity, urban poverty, overcrowding are some of the recurrent challenges confronting the urban environments.
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General @ 28 May 2007 10:00 am by Maximilian Thumfart
Several Universitys, of Dortmund (DE), London (GB), Firenze (IT), La Rochelle (FR) and Catalonia (ES), published a database (available at http://www.euleb.info) wich provides information on existing public non-residential high quality and low energy buildings from all over Europe.
This Database contains Information about built low energy public buildings.
It offers detailed charts and diagramms about the major facts of each project, shows details of construction, offers researches about user acceptance and compares the projects financial data with similar buildings. You can browse the EULEB by Location, Building Type or Technology and you are even free to download a cd-image to browse offline.
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General @ 21 Dec 2006 05:19 pm by Roland Tichy
Städte contra Staat - die neue Hierarchie
Kein Wunder, dass die traditionelle Hierarchie der Macht, der Nationalstaat, in Frage gestellt wird. Städte geraten schon aus schierer Schwere in die Rolle als politischer Akteur. Wenn Städte immer größer und wirtschaftlich stärker werden, gewinnen sie an politischem Gewicht. (more…)
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General @ 14 Nov 2006 02:39 pm by Sebastian Geib
The website GreatBuildings.com offers a special and just as interesting opportunity to search and find great buildings. Just fill in the form of the search engine – name of building, name of architect, or name of place and you will find your great building. A resourceful database, containing a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects supports you, in case you don’t know all details. The website then provides you with pictures taken from the outside and inside, as well as a short discussion of the building. The website is an overall inspiring and valuable resource, especially for beginners.
However, the real deal is the opportunity to view detailed 3D-models of some great buildings, and, of course, the Google Maps mashup ! Here, the great buildings are displayed on a map and you can choose whether you want to see the map as a satellite photograph or as an artificial map or as a combination of both! Just check Rome for example! You can see where the great buildings are located on a hybrid map, click on them, view a photograph of each great building and prepare yourself for the next photo-safari in Rome. Nonetheless, to get a vivid impression of the great buildings, we still have to be on location. But now, I will plan my route more efficiently in advance and only select the first-class spots. Thanks to GreatBuildings.com.
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