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New media play a role transforming public spaces into interactive platforms for communication, advertising, art, and social integration (Manuel Castells, 2009) [1]. Technologies such as LED displays and digital interactive installations aim to enhance the functionality of urban spaces, broaden the experience of a place, and attract users’ attention. According to Lev Manovich (2001) [2], such technologies not only change the aesthetics of urban spaces but also the way in which people interact with them. Examples ...

Urban areas are very rich in terms of biodiversity. The study's goal in this context is to develop proposals to ensure the sustainability of biodiversity, particularly in urban areas, by emphasizing the significance of biological diversity, which is the most important component of ecological systems and biological processes. Furthermore, it is intended to be a resource to be used in future studies on biological diversity, particularly in the context of the importance and sustainability of urban biodiversity. Biodi...

Urban pollution caused by traffic has become a global issue in recent years. Urban pollution is significantly influenced by weather conditions, and the study examines the impact of meteorological parameters such as temperature, solar radiation, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, and wind speed on the pollution levels of O3, NO, NO2, NOx, and SO2 in summer compared to winter. During summer, the average concentration of O3 is higher than in winter, while the average concentrations of NO2, NO, NOx, which are precur...

Geodesy is a very ancient science. The beginnings can be found in Egypt. The field ofscience is closely related to astronomy, geophysics, geology, geometry, etc. Planet Earthis in the process of evolution. Earth’s crust together with the upper mantle is incontinuous motion: horizontally and vertically. Movement of the Earth’s crust as aresult, lithospheric plates move, creating mountains and valleys, changing coastlines,changing sea and ocean levels. Earth’s internal and external (Sun and Moon) forcesresult ...

The overhead bridge crane generates transverse horizontal forces as it travels along the crane runway. Transverse horizontal forces are caused by the braking of the crab and also by the crane's own travel, which is not straight due to the imperfections of the crane and the crane runway. This kind of forces can be called forces caused by skewing of crane. There are several interpretations for the crane skewing, from which various computational models are based. Individual interpretations, however, differ both in te...

In every sphere of human life, its proper quality is important. Therefore, quality of life is of interest to various fields of knowledge, including philosophy, psychology, sociology, medicine, etc. The quality of life also is important for engineers who have an impact on the technosphere, i.e., technical means whose features (construction, operational, condition and ergonomic), determine the quality of human life – user or operator of the given technical mean. Shaping these features at the stages of the life cyc...

This study aims to develop eco-friendly car seats using hanji yarn. To this end, fabricsfor car seats were woven with polyester yarn as the warp and 100% hanji yarn dyedwith gallnut, acacia, mulberry leaves and indigo (Indigofera tinctoria) as the weft. Thefollowing conclusions were drawn after evaluating the anti-fogging properties, odor,antimicrobial activity, and UV protection effects of the fabrics. First, all four types ofnaturally-dyed hanji fabrics showed excellent anti-fogging properties at 10 percent orle...

The current trend is the development of all technologies, including the use andapplication of drones. Drones are a boon in many industries and a helper in any humanendeavor that seeks to make work easier more efficient and more accountable.Transport infrastructure which is an important elite sector is a great ally for the use andapplication of drones. The development of this technology in all sectors of transport is avery beneficial tool for improving the environment within the transport infrastructure aswell as f...

The realization of a General Urban Plan is an essential tool for analyzing the evolution of the urban space over time. The General Urban Plan (GUP) is a comprehensive planning document that outlines the long-term development goals and policies for a city or municipality. The GUP typically includes an analysis of current conditions, including population, land use, transportation, infrastructure, and natural resources. The GUP, together with the related Local Urban Planning Regulation, includes mandatory rules for a...

The city environment surrounds its inhabitants with various technical means that support them every day. These means include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), that is drones. The presence of drones in cities, including smart cities, may cause controversy among residents related to the threat to the safety of using drones, interference with privacy, emitted sounds, monitoring, and other discomfort. Therefore, in the stage of increasing drone prevalence of the use in smart cities, the social perception of them by res...

To ensure economic growth, more and more attention is being paid to promoting entrepreneurship in Latvia's cities, which addresses not only unemployment problems but also the sustainable use of resources, including land. Land is a non-renewable resource whose availability is limited, and it is therefore the task of the municipality to promote the management of unused land in its territory. The legislation of the Republic of Latvia provides that the functions of municipalities include not only the improvement of th...

Modern educational requirements are aimed at the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies, practical orientation to the requirements of the labour market and the achievement of sustainable development of landscapes. The object of the research is the acquired landscape architecture educational competencies of students and employers' assessment of the competencies in practice. The aim of the study is to investigate the level of specialized educational competencies acquired by landscape architecture students...

The design of restaurant environment and atmosphere is an important key to influencing consumer satisfaction and purchase intention. In the fiercely competitive catering industry, how to make restaurants stand out and enhance their own competitiveness for sustainable operation is an important topic currently faced by catering operators. Operators not only need to understand and listen to the voices of customers, but also strive to create a good and appropriate sustainable environment, provide consumers with a comf...

Cities, cultures, tourism and music have always been connected through the close relations between urban places as music venues, tourists and legendary musicians which perform to largest audiences. This paper aims to briefly examine the most important relations between music, tourism, cities and iconic musicians considering as a case in point, one of the most emblematic artists in the contemporary global popular culture - the iconic songstress Celine Dion. The article unveils the most important features which conn...

This article proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the discourses surrounding the arrival and settlement of Caribbean immigrants in London. The theoretical approach draws on the interplay between theories on migrant memory (Derrida), discourse (Foucault) and spatial literary studies (Bhabha, Moslund) to examine the role of migration in the creation of the modern multicultural, cosmopolitan city against the racism encoded in the public discourse and the migration crisis reinforced by the British press. The rese...

The new rural zones need a new quality. A green grid means intersections of lines and nodes into the rural landscape through alleys, green playgrounds, community gardens, and contact with orchards, meadows, and streams create ecological and human conditions for quality new residential rural suburbs. Our research focuses on these current issues in the form of case studies of rural areas and an evaluation of their quality. In four case studies in Zahorska Bystrica near Bratislava, a comparative method of comparing a...

This paper presents the results of the study of the influence of city-builder video games, considered as interactive creative environments, on the socialization process of the concept of city creation. The article includes the general characteristics of city-builder games with reference to the reality of city creation and management in general, as well as the specific production that forms the basis of the study. Through a correlative research method, an attempt was made to answer the question of whether video gam...

Some cities are frequently important venues for various spectacles, live performances, concerts and residency shows performed by the greatest artists of the world, therefore they contribute to the music tourism development and to the local economic development of the cities themselves through tourism and cultural events. A plenty of cities remain emblematic in this regard, but research on their cultural events are peripheral in the present geographical analysis. This paper discusses about an emblematic residency s...

This abstract focuses upon the main iconographic Street Art works created in Rome to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini. A further point of analysis will be the Street Art works in relation to their level complexity and how well-acquainted the street artists who created them were with the works of Pasolini. This study concerns Street Art works in Rome due to the fact that Pasolini spent the majority of his life there. In his novel The Ragazzi and his films Accattone and Mamma Roma...

Public space is a general term that can be expressed in various ways. However, any definition is based on the assumption that these are spaces accessible to everyone without restrictions. Public space therefore serves a general purpose, regardless of ownership of that space. One of the types of public spaces is also an extra-level connection - an underpass. The underpasses provide an alternative way to safely overcome potentially dangerous locations due to a certain barrier - especially busy traffic. For the comfo...

Review of the projects experience and best practices in the development of participatory design and budgeting in St. Petersburg from 2016 up to 2019, which makes it possible to directly participate in the allocation of the city budget and improve the quality of life in the city. It analyzes various practices to involve citizens in budgeting through their participation in proposing and selecting the initiatives to be financed from the budgetary funds, and the subsequent monitoring of the project implementation. Thi...

Drought represents a significant threat not only for the Czech Republic but also for the whole world. This threat is mainly influenced by climate change. Climate change increases air temperature. This article focuses on drought in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic has experienced significant differences in temperatures in recent years. In particular, a change in the temperatures of the seasons can be observed and almost the disappearance of some seasons. Winter has significant fluctuations in shock and temper...

The failure of the critical infrastructure elements represents a significant impact on the national security, safeguarding the basic living needs of the inhabitants, human health or the state's economy. Several critical infrastructure elements are defined, including transport. The world is threatened by several emergencies - floods, drought, tornadoes and other. These events threaten the state's critical infrastructure. Different events could trigger cascading effects. It means that the impact of an emergency on t...

The paper is aimed at studying festivals of urban culture as a form of participation of urban communities in the life of a metropolitan city. It is the residents, their experience, competences, creativity that determine the growth and development of any metropolitan city. This is why the urban environment and its quality are today tools which modern cities use in their struggle for human resources. A modern city should provide the development of a variety of functional content which meets the cultural, educational...

The need to steer our development towards a more sustainable future is ever more imminent in the light of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Urban areas bear much of the blame and burden and interventions towards urban sustainability may have the greatest impact. Despite increasing interest in urban sustainability, from both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring is still a cause of ...

Railway transport facilities are a group of interconnected and interactive parts that perform an important work or task. These include, for example, track and station security equipment, interlocking security equipment, dispatching workplaces, communication equipment elements and others. Many are dependent on electricity supply, although some of their functions may be temporarily supplied from alternative sources. The electricity distribution network, which has a number of different elements, is relatively vulnera...

The global collapse of the environment is inevitable. Developed states should work alongside developing countries to make sure that their economies do not contribute to increasing pollution problems. Today's politicians should think about supporting pollution reduction programs rather than expanding industrialization as much as possible. Environmental conservation strategies should be accepted on a global scale, and people should start thinking about a significant reduction in energy consumption without sacrificin...

The article is devoted to the study of the social and natural aspects of the city environment. The city environment is recognized as the most important factor of creating and maintaining comfort in the city. The city environment forms the quality of life. Therefore, the city receives advantages in competition for residents, tourism and investment. The study examined the views of the local expert community on the most important factors that form a comfortable city environment. Research was conducted on the example ...

In recent years, the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, have gradually turned their attention towards the matter of life quality, both from an ecological, as well as from a socio-economic point of view – particularly in relation to the realities of the urban environment. Within contemporary cities, collective housing neighborhoods concentrate the highest densities of housing units, thus offering shelter to a large percentage of the population. These developments therefore have the l...

Background: In this paper we tried to emphasize the importance of the Critical Infrastructures in general, as well as a divided approach of the infrastructures. The main topics discussed in the following lines are debating the importance of critical infrastructures in the field of Transportation, Energy production, Water and sanitation, Nuclear Industry as well as some examples for stating the importance of Critical infrastructures, at a national and European level on the economical and social point of view. The p...

The authors of this work generated and examined the principles of integrating architecture into nature in urban planning. The aim of the paper is to study how the abovementioned principles have been formed in the theory of architecture and urban planning. Since ancient times humans have been looking for ways of consolidation with nature, because rational usage of landscape, water resources and environment was one of the most important conditions of comfortable life and sometimes even survival. However, as civiliza...

The article concerns urban spaces that are moving towards the principles of sustainable development, which are a currently responsible for shaping the quality of the urban human environment. The inhabitants of Europe, like the rest of the world, face the necessity of making a radical change of lifestyle in cities, mainly in the field of energy consumption, water consumption and waste management. Accelerated technological progress in the world and constantly improving economic conditions of cities development are c...

Poultry rearing has always been an integral component of social systems around the world. It is also the fastest and most flexible among the livestock sectors. It has expanded and globalized over a period of 15 years in countries of all income levels owing to its ever-growing demand. Rural poultry is estimated to be the livelihood of about one billion poor farmers of the world in areas experiencing food insecurity. It contributes to about 80% of poultry stocks in under-developing and developing countries; improvin...

The paper presents the results of a survey St. Petersburg residents about trust in e-government technologies. The study was based on the ideas of actor-network theory and the approach of social construction of technology (SCOT). 600 respondents took part in the survey (sampling error does not exceed 4%, with a 95% confidence level). The study proposes an approach to cyber-social trust in the field of e-government technologies: online services provision, citizensВ’ e-participation in the management of the city, soc...

Currently, there is a huge selection of apartments in the real estate market. Buyers of apartments have to take into account a large number of factors influencing the quality of apartments on offer. It is often very problematic for both buyers and real estate agencies. The paper suggests a new instrumental approach based on one of the methods of multi-criteria comparative analysis to evaluate the consumer appeal of apartments. The proposed instrumental approach proves to be very effective as it compresses a large ...

In the previous study the authors suggested and examined the principles of architecture's integration into nature (i. e. the principle of preservation of the place, regeneration of biocenose, interaction of environments, harmonization, using of natural-born forms, seamlessness, rational consumption, consolidation of forces). They have been used intuitively during the whole mankindВ’s history of creating an artificial environment. The aim of this paper is to show how the principles of architecture's integration int...

The scientific-educational approach, combining the educational point of view with the scientific criticism of the educational approach, was formed, oddly enough, in the study of alchemy, and views the latter as a stage in the development of chemistry. It is this approach which combined the ideas of the Enlightenment with natural science and its history and became the basis for the formation of a classical view of the Hermetic tradition. This approach is based on the reality of the object of alchemy, proving that i...

Alchemy is oriented towards В‘traditionВ’, and the latter can be understood very widely, including myths, superstitions, legends, parables. Any tradition at a certain level of development, in order to take the next step, turns to the study of itself, realizing the reflection of its sources, bases, concepts and methods. This approach is denoted by the word В‘traditionalВ’. For the present study this group of materials, on the one hand, acts as sources, on the other hand, as research, that is, the study of esoteric ...

Parking policy should be part of an integrated revitalization strategy. An integrated approach requires the implementation of processes that influence the determination of the value of parking indicators. It is also important to implement projects that will indirectly contribute to improving the situation in degraded areas. One of such actions is the implementation of a parking policy that aims to eliminate the problem of congestion in city centers. There are no mandatory indicators for the minimum number of parki...

Parking policy should be part of an integrated revitalization strategy. An integrated approach requires the implementation of processes that influence the determination of the value of parking indicators. It is also important to implement projects that will indirectly contribute to improving the situation in degraded areas. One of such actions is the implementation of a parking policy that aims to eliminate the problem of congestion in city centers. There are no mandatory indicators for the minimum number of parki...

The paper focuses on the possibilities of assessing the attractiveness of open recreational areas in the city using mathematical tools based on fuzzy logic. Urban studies aimed at evaluation of the chosen urban structure or its fragment always require taking into account many criteria. They are factors which often are difficult to be measured. Then the expert's knowledge and experience play a key role. The paper presents the concept of inference based on fuzzy logic. It has been used to assess the attractiveness o...

This study presents the results of studentsВ’ work from Hafen City University in Hamburg and Gdansk University of Technology, carried out as part of a joint studio dealing with Nowy Port problem area. It refers to the methodology and design proposals, as well as to individual projects of students from Gdansk University of Technology - Spatial Management and Architecture. The aim of this study is to present framework project guidelines resulting from in-depth analyzes and projects of international groups to show de...

The nature of shopping centers, their impact on the city, space and residents is the target of critics of sociologists, ethnographers (anthropologists), as well as urban planners and architects, in which they were classified as non-places – deprived of history, spaces of alienation, loneliness, lack of social relations. Wroc?aw is a city where the ratio of space in shopping centers per capita is one of the highest (if not the highest) in Europe. Constructed in various periods – the last one last year (2017), t...

One characteristic quality of metropolises is their non-continuity. They are composed of a network, a web woven out of various threads - of extremely fine, almost invisible spider's silk, which gives in to the pressure of the wind, as well as thick ropes, which can resist it and support entire skyscrapers, wires that transmit impulses, radio waves and starlight. Everything is in the spaces of these webs: emptiness, grass, the shine of water surfaces, forests and sand, prisons and botanical gardens, tombs and publi...

The last two decades have been an intensive development of residential development in many Polish cities in areas outside of urbanized downtown areas. Unfortunately, a significant part of new settlements is carried out, more or less consciously, as detached to existing urban structures. New housing complexes, already implemented within administrative boundaries of the city or already in neighboring municipalities, create, suspended, often in open space structures, changing the way existing structures, communicatio...

Newly-built residential districts are equipped with modern comforts and facilities for inhabitants-to-be in these days. These quarters combined comfortable flats in buildings of interesting and modern architectural design, built from energy-saving building materials. Blocks of flats are situated amid beautiful, green spots and they possess their own play grounds. The problem of already existing residential areas lies somewhere else. They are often multi-flat building built in the second half of the 20th century. T...

Cities as living organisms are subject to constant changes in time. The urban heritage conservation system introduced in Poland in the 20th century attempts to stop the process of natural transformation of the structure, particularly with reference to historical areas of development. Nevertheless, there is no way to preserve the changing life, functions, and communities this tissue is home to. The goal of this paper is to identify traces of old times in the city structure, as symbols of memory and identity of the ...

The cities which are in a contact with watercourse are with this specific location unique and appealing. Urban links with the embankments open the city to the attractive promenades, used for relaxation and recreation. These public spaces of promenades comprise the potential for social impulses and meeting places. They are humanizing cities and integrating urban and natural elements. The city-making, place-making and the attractivity of the waterfront can have a diverse functional basis, thus creating a big range o...

The article presents the current state of the research project which aims to integrate activities of members of the Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology, Zabrze, Poland, that are focused on the various problems associated with the idea of “Smart City”. The variety of research areas related to multi-screen research conducted by project participants has been treated as an important added value of the project in question. In the first part of the paper, the list of the areas c...

The local identity of urban spaces becomes a necessary requirement for the design and planning of urban development. The article proposes a system of the spatial factors influencing the local identity of urban areas and provide new directions for improvement of urban planning practices. The spatial structure of the urban environment becomes clear and obvious when identifying the places with the highest concentration of day and night social activity. Architecture and public spaces of the city create the most durabl...