In the near future, more people with dementia will be living at home within an urban context due to a combination of an increased number of people living with dementia and this past decade's ...urbanization. A common perception is that home-dwelling people with dementia experience a shrinking world, but emerging research from the UK, Sweden, and the Netherlands has broadened this notion by foregrounding how people with dementia experience neighborhoods as a resource in self-care practices. With this article, we contribute to this emerging body of literature and aim to explore how people with dementia experience the cityscape in relation to the onset and progression of their dementia. This study outlines findings from a 7-month ethnographic study involving 12 home-dwelling people with dementia. Using semi-structured interviews, walking interviews, and photovoice, the study explores how the cityscape of Copenhagen, Denmark, affects the everyday life of home-dwelling people living with dementia. Through thematic analysis, three key themes are identified: interaction with the city's life and space as self-care practices, getting out and about as a way to practice a sense of “being in the world” and the loss of orientation abilities and the changing boundaries of the cityscape. The findings from this study contribute to current discussions concerning how people with dementia experience and perceive city and neighborhood environments.
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Reflections on the collective traumas that have shaped Japan’s more recent history (primarily the triple disaster of Fukushima) have ignited a new boom in dystopian productions that have achieved an ...unprecedented success. These narratives explore themes that deal with the erosion of the ecosystem in which humans live – but also of the human body itself. However, it is not only human beings who play a part in some of these dystopias: the city of Tokyo also plays a key role within them. The purpose of this paper is to explore this peculiar role of Tokyo in three selected case studies: namely, Adou (2021-) by Amano Jaku, Soundtrack (2003) by Furukawa Hideo, and The Emissary (2013) by Tawada Yōko. Destroyed and rebuilt in multiple media productions over the last seventy years and at the center of psychedelic futuristic visions, Tokyo becomes either a swarming center of human life or an abandoned wasteland, an urban skeleton that stands as a reminder of the impending or preceding catastrophe, forcing the reader to think about the actual future of our urban spaces – and whether it will include us humans or not.
La situació climàtica és ja una de les principals qüestions a l'agenda mundial i afecta de manera determinant l'habitabilitat de l'espècie humana. Aquesta situació és especialment delicada en ciutats ...amb climes potencialment molt càlids a l'estiu, ja que l'augment de temperatures està posant en perill l'ocupació i la usabilitat dels seus espais públics, la qual cosa implica un repte per a la salut dels seus habitants i una crisi per a la viabilitat de la ciutat mateixa. Aquesta situació demana una estratègia per modificar els paràmetres de confort en aquests llocs. En aquest marc, ens trobem amb la peculiaritat de la ciutat històrica i els espais urbans amb valor patrimonial. En aquests àmbits les mesures de mitigació climàtica han de dialogar de manera positiva amb els valors patrimonials. Garantir aquesta relació és una cosa que fins ara no s'ha articulat mitjançant cap procediment. L'objectiu d'aquesta investigació és proposar una metodologia que permeti identificar els millors criteris d'intervenció en aquests llocs perquè les estratègies dirigides a mitigar l'emergència climàtica reforcin la vitalitat i el valor dels espais patrimonials. Aquest marc i objectiu encaixen en el cas de la ciutat de Sevilla (Espanya), que es fa servir com a entorn de referència per a la investigació, encara que no com a cas d'estudi, ja que no s'obtenen resultats en aquesta fase. Però l'objectiu és que el mètode resultant sigui extrapolable a qualsevol entorn patrimonial de naturalesa urbana i amb condicions climàtiques semblants a les del sud d'Europa.
The climate situation is already one of the main issues on the global agenda, affecting in a decisive way the habitability of the human species. This situation is particularly sensitive in cities with potentially very hot climates in summer, as rising temperatures are jeopardizing the occupancy and usability of their public spaces, posing a challenge to the health of their inhabitants and a crisis for the viability of the city itself. This situation calls for a strategy to modify the parameters of comfort in these places. In this framework, we find the peculiarity of the historic city and its urban spaces with heritage value. In these areas, climate mitigation measures have to be in a positive dialogue with the heritage values. Ensuring this relationship is something that has so far not been articulated through any procedure. The aim of this research is to propose a methodology to identify the best criteria for intervention in such places, so that strategies aimed at mitigating the climate emergency reinforce the vitality and value of heritage spaces. This framework and objective fit in the case of the city of Seville (Spain), which is used as a reference environment for the assessment, but not as a case study, as no results are obtained at this stage. However, the aim is that the resulting method can be extrapolated to any urban heritage environment and climatic conditions similar to those of southern Europe.
La situación climática es ya una de las principales cuestiones en la agenda mundial, afectando de forma determinante la habitabilidad de la especie humana. Esta situación es especialmente delicada en ciudades con climas potencialmente muy cálidos en el estío, ya que el aumento de temperaturas está poniendo en peligro la ocupación y usabilidad de sus espacios públicos, lo cual implica un reto para la salud de sus habitantes y una crisis para la viabilidad de la ciudad misma. Esta situación demanda una estrategia para modificar los parámetros de confort en dichos lugares. En este marco, nos encontramos con la peculiaridad de la ciudad histórica y sus espacios urbanos con valor patrimonial. En estos ámbitos las medidas de mitigación climática tienen que dialogar de forma positiva con los valores patrimoniales. Garantizar esta relación es algo que hasta el momento no se ha articulado mediante ningún procedimiento. El objetivo de esta investigación es proponer una metodología que permita identificar los mejores criterios de intervención en dichos lugares, para que las estrategias dirigidas a mitigar la emergencia climática refuercen la vitalidad y el valor de los espacios patrimoniales. Este marco y objetivo encajan en el caso de la ciudad de Sevilla (España), que se utiliza como entorno de referencia para la investigación, aunque no como caso de estudio, puesto que no se obtienen resultados en esta fase. Pero el objetivo es que el método resultante sea extrapolable a cualquier entorno patrimonial de naturaleza urbana y con condiciones climáticas similares a las del sur de Europa.
Despite increasing awareness of the need to trace the trajectory of innovation system research, so far little attention has been given to quantitative depiction of the evolution of this fast-moving ...research field. This paper uses CiteSpace to demonstrate visually intellectual structures and developments. The study uses citation analysis to detect and visualize disciplinary distributions, keyword co-word networks and journal cocitation networks, highly cited references, as well as highly cited authors to identify intellectual turning points, pivotal points and emerging trends, in innovation systems system research from 1975 to 2012.
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This paper reported on the design of skyscrapers in the “Conservation Integrated Redevelopment Project” for preserving historic buildings and constructing skyscrapers. In case of the Mitsui Main ...Building block redevelopment project, we focused on the detailed design of the tower part of the skyscraper “Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower” with a tower-on-the-base type format. Regarding the detailed design, we reported the design process and planning intention from the initial plan to the realization plan. In particular, the design architects’ studies on horizontal fins, capitals, louvers, sunshades, details of hotel floors, shoulders, etc., factors for judgment, issues and policies were summarized.
The traditional method for reconstructing cityscape relies greatly on the subjective judgment of designers, which makes the cityscape simple and homogenized. This paper aims to propose a new ...integrated approach to protect and design cityscape based on virtual reality (VR) and eye tracking technology. Through the integration and quantification of the eye tracking data and the protocol analysis data in the VR environment, this research has revealed the mechanism of identifying the cityscape features, and discovered the differences in the perception of the cityscape features by different people, thus proposing the multi-cultural integrated strategy for protecting cityscape. This research is of great significance for building a human-oriented scientific planning and protection method and promoting the application of cutting-edge digital technology in the field of smart city governance.
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A destination attracts tourists not only by its aesthetically well-designed and functionally well-maintained urban scenes but also by its image and sense of place. Using Macau as a case study, this ...paper utilises perception-based assessment, photo analysis and statistical modelling to investigate the aesthetic perceptions and image impressions of tourists walking along travel trails that include must-see tourism nodes and urban street segments. This study aims to detect important urban and landscape attributes that affect tourists' perceptions whilst travelling through continuous cityscapes. Results reveal that spatial disparity exists between aesthetic perception and city image impression through different cityscapes. Landmarks and urban attributes that show local businesses and social life effectively shape tourists' image impression. Contemporary and sparsely built-up cityscapes have significant landscape diversity. Urban greenery along walking trails may negatively contribute to image impression if it blocks views in historical and densely built-up cityscapes. Findings provide new insights and discussion for urban design and management along travel trails to enhance walkability for Macau and similar tourism cities.
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FROM EAST TOWARD WEST Naomi Ando
Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics,
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In this paper, I would like to overview what I learned from Europe. I havebeen fascinated by European architecture and cities. I have always thought that architecture and cities were interesting ...because they all have their own places and histories. Here, while adding later analyses and related matters, my first study on European Plazas and the other studies are focused on.
Several cities built along the waterfront are also accompanied by mountainous backgrounds, and thus have characteristic panoramas contributing to their visual image and identity. However, urban ...waterfronts are also often subject to high-rise development, which may damage that identity by shielding the mountainous background. Building regulations are adopted as visual impact management policies to retain mountain visibility, but it is difficult to find either scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of such private property control or further empirical guidance for its elaboration. Through a case study of Seoul's Han River, this study thus analyzed the actual impact of relevant building characteristics on the visual preference of urban waterfront views with mountainous backgrounds. Immersive virtual reality experiments using both actual and simulated cityscape images were conducted. Hierarchical linear regression and quasi-rank-based conjoint analysis results confirm that controls on buildings to retain background mountain visibility would actually serve as reasonable visual impact management measures. Insights into what kinds of regulation could be desirable in which circumstances were further obtained—excessively high buildings are especially unrecommended when the height of the background mountain is low, and in all cases a combination of view corridors with convex skylines are advisable for mitigating the negative impacts of mid-to-high building heights.
•Previously-lacked scientific justification and implications for urban waterfront visual impact regulations provided•Uses a combination of both the two major VR experiment methods•Combining view corridors with irregular, convex skylines lower than the mountain is advised to ease building height impacts•Excessively high buildings are especially unrecommended in cases of low background mountains•Controls to retain background mountain visibility actually are reasonable cityscape management practices
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