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Li, Wei, Sisi Zlatanova, Abdoulaye A. Diakite, Mitko Aleksandrov, and Jinjin Yan. "Towards Integrating Heterogeneous Data: A Spatial DBMS Solution from a CRC-LCL Project in Australia." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 2 (January 21, 2020): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9020063.
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Over recent decades, more and more cities worldwide have created semantic 3D city models of their built environments based on standards across multiple domains. 3D city models, which are often employed for a large range of tasks, go far beyond pure visualization. Due to different spatial scale requirements for planning and managing various built environments, integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) has emerged in recent years. Focus is now shifting to Precinct Information Modeling (PIM) which is in a more general sense to built-environment modeling. As scales change so do options to perform information modeling for different applications. How to implement data interoperability across these digital representations, therefore, becomes an emerging challenge. Moreover, with the growth of multi-source heterogeneous data consisting of semantic and varying 2D/3D spatial representations, data management becomes feasible for facilitating the development and deployment of PIM applications. How to use heterogeneous data in an integrating manner to further express PIM is an open and comprehensive topic. In this paper, we develop a semantic PIM based on multi-source heterogeneous data. Then, we tackle spatial data management problems in a Spatial Database Management System (SDBMS) solution for our defined unified model. Case studies on the University of New South Wales (UNSW) campus demonstrate the efficiency of our solution.
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Deng, Derui, Shiyao Liu, Lawrence Wallis, Elizabeth Duncan, and Phil McManus. "Urban Sustainability Indicators: how do Australian city decision makers perceive and use global reporting standards?" Australian Geographer 48, no. 3 (February 8, 2017): 401–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2016.1277074.
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Fahey, Morgan. "Aircraft Crash Management in Australia and New Zealand." Journal of the World Association for Emergency and Disaster Medicine 1, no. 2 (1985): 139–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00065298.
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In the history of aviation there has never been a period when so much effort has been demonstrated to improve the safety standards of international and national airports. This has come about through the knowledge that aircraft crashes in recent years at some airports have been mismanaged because of bad or non-existent planning for such a disaster, and by poor emergency medical response.We share today a faith in the safety of the aircraft. We share, too, the awareness that more people have survived aircraft crashes than have perished, and that if there are survivors on board, in most cases there will be more survivors than dead (1).The encouragement to improve airport safety and crash management has come largely from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO); from the Club of Mainz Association, who in 1979 set up a consultant committee to investigate and improve international airports; from the Flight Safety Foundation and from the US Airline Pilots Association. All these organizations have rightly questioned the quality of existing emergency medical response to an aircraft crash, and have offered expert advice to improve disaster preparedness and management. This article will report our response to this challenge, particularly in New Zealand, but will also concern our neighboring continent of Australia.New Zealand, set in the Pacific Ocean with its two long islands, has international flight contacts through its three major airports with North America, South East Asia, Japan and the South West Pacific. It has its own national aviation hazards of mountain chains, difficult landing approaches from the sea, made more hazardous with strong winds which are a feature of our capital city airport. Despite this, the safety record of New Zealand airports is extremely high.
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Nickols, David, Gerard C. Moerschell, and Michael V. Broder. "The first DAF water treatment plant in the United States." Water Science and Technology 31, no. 3-4 (February 1, 1995): 239–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1995.0533.
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The Millwood Water Treatment Plant in Westchester County, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of New York City, was commissioned in August 1993. This plant is the first dissolved air flotation (DAF) plant in the United States which uses the DAF technology and concepts that have become the industry standards in Europe and Australia. The $19-million plant was built to treat a previously unfiltered supply, to meet the requirements of the new federal Surface Water Treatment Rule. This paper describes the project in its entirety: starting from the planning, pilot testing, and process selection; proceeding to the means of overcoming resistance to a “new” process and obtaining regulatory body approvals; and outlining the design, process criteria, construction, and start-up of the plant. Operating results are also presented. The plant treats soft, slightly colored, generally low turbidity water which experiences occasional turbidity spikes of 100 NTU or more. The treatment process comprises two-stage mixing, three-stage flocculation, dissolved air flotation, ozonation for primary disinfection, dual-media filtration, and post-treatment with chlorine, sodium hydroxide, orthophosphate and fluoride. Flotation sludge is dewatered in on-site freeze/thaw lagoons for off-site disposal in a landfill.
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Abidi, Sehar, and Priyadarsini Rajagopalan. "Investigating Daylight in the Apartment Buildings in Melbourne, Australia." Infrastructures 5, no. 10 (October 7, 2020): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures5100081.
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Daylighting improves users’ experience in visual comfort, aesthetics, behaviour and perception of space and plays an important part in enhancing the health and wellbeing of occupants inside a dwelling. However, daylighting design is challenging for high rise living since configuration of multiple apartments together often results in deep plans and wrongly oriented apartments with poor daylighting. Melbourne considered as the most liveable city in the world has witnessed a boom in high rise apartments in recent years, where bedrooms were designed without windows or with one small opening. Previous studies indicated that one out of two apartments in Melbourne’s central business district (CBD) failed to provide daylighting in the bedrooms. This has led to amendments in planning policy with the aim of providing access to daylight in all habitable rooms. This paper investigates the daylighting conditions in apartment buildings using field measurement and daylight simulations. Daylight levels in 12 apartment units in Melbourne CBD were measured. Additionally, daylight simulations were conducted to identify ways for optimizing light levels in standard layouts. The field measurements showed that daylighting levels were insufficient in one third the apartments due to the presence of deep floor plates and external obstructions. The results from the daylight simulations showed that window to floor area ratio (WFR) of approximately 30% is required for achieving acceptable daylighting levels in bedrooms that have south orientation.
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Troy, Laurence. "The politics of urban renewal in Sydney’s residential apartment market." Urban Studies 55, no. 6 (March 15, 2017): 1329–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098017695459.
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Australia has long had a deeply speculative housing property market. Arguably this has been accentuated in recent years as successive governments have privileged private-sector investment in housing property as the key mechanism for delivering housing and a concurrent winding back of direct government support for housing. This has occurred through a period in which urban renewal and flexible planning regulation have become the key focus of urban planning policy to deliver on compact city ambitions in the name of sustainability. There has been a tendency to read many of the higher density housing outcomes as a relatively homogenous component of the housing market. There has been a comparative lack of critical engagement with differentiated spatial, physical and socio-economic outcomes within the higher density housing market. This paper will explore the interactions between flexible design-based planning policies, the local property market and physical outcomes. Different parts of the property development industry produced distinctive social and physical outcomes within the same regulatory space. Each response was infused with similar politics of exclusion and privilege in which capacity to pay regulated both access and standard of housing accessible, opening new socio-economic divisions within Australia’s housing landscape.
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Tiller, KG, LH Smith, RH Merry, and PM Clayton. "The dispersal of automotive lead from metropolitan Adelaide into adjacent rural areas." Soil Research 25, no. 2 (1987): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr9870155.
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About 600 surface samples and key horizons of 240 soil profiles from a 90 x 20 km study area extending from the metropolitan area of Adelaide, South Australia, to its rural hinterland, were analysed for lead. Atmospheric fallout was collected monthly at 19 locations for 2 years, and up to 3 years at fewer sites in the same area. Lead in atmospheric fallout showed little year-to-year variation and tended to be seasonally controlled with highest values in winter. Collection of lead in fallout was unaffected by the filtering action of vegetation. The lead content of surface soils and atmospheric fallout showed that part of petrol-lead emitted within Adelaide from automotive exhausts has measurably contaminated the rural landscape to about 50 km downwind of the city. The variation in lead content of surface soils in the agricultural region near Adelaide can be largely explained in terms of accessions of aerosol-lead of automotive origin. This research complements previous investigations which showed that the lead isotopic compositions of selected soils were close to the composition of the lead tetraethyl used in South Australia. An environmental budget showed that only 3% of the lead in petrol burned in Adelaide has been dispersed via the atmosphere beyond the immediate highway zone, and deposited on the land surface within 50 km of the city centre. On the assumption that no more than 35% of the lead is retained within the vehicle, and that about half of the total burned lead is deposited near the roadway, the 30% of the total lead which cannot be accounted for (about 200 t at the time of this study) has probably dispersed beyond the study region and should be viewed as a contribution to continental and global pollution. Lead levels measured in rainfall, air and soils were low in relation to the accepted standards and experience. Although the lead levels were low, this investigation indicates the likely dispersal pattern of other pollutants with similar atmospheric residence times, and thus provides guidance to planning decisions concerning placement of polluting industries, and in relation to possible industrial accidents which cause pollution.
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Bliankinshyein, Olga N., Natalia A. Popkova, Matvey V. Savelyev, Natalia A. Unagaeva, Irina G. Fedchenko, and Yana V. Chui. "SOCIOCULTURAL BASIS OF URBAN PLANNING REGULATION FOR PUBLIC OPEN SPACES." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie, no. 41 (2021): 18–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22220836/41/2.
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The authors consider the problem of urban planning regulation of public open spaces from the perspective of their dominant role in the formation of a holistic socio-cultural structure of a city. Relevance of the study is determined by the modern demand for comfortable urban environment of the public open spaces, which has become the global urban planning trend in recent decades. The modern approach, promoted in the UN Charter and in federal and regional strategic development programs is aimed at increasing the emotional attachment of people to a place of living and fostering a sense of community. The improvement of public spaces should be based on the historical and cultural context, natural features, and the identity of a place. The implementation of numerous projects all over the country has revealed the flaws of urban planning regulations. This fact stimulated the emergence of targeted contests of applied research aimed at the development of new national and local regulations, standard architectural solutions which would provide high-quality development of the urban environment. Analysis of the approaches to public open space development reveals current trends in their planning regulation, which are considered in separate sections of the article. The first section explores the mechanisms which regulate the improvement of urban historical and cultural sites. It touches upon the problems of preservation of cultural heritage and the identification of landmark places. It also considers examples of the urban planning regulations for the areas of “historical urban regeneration” (Dresden, Ivanovo, Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Belgorod) and the examples of completed projects in Siberian cities (Yeniseisk, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk). The second section is devoted to the identification and preservation of unique natural elements and images of a place through the urban landscape zoning. Different approaches to solving issues of improvement and humanization of the living environment are considered using examples of Berlin, Paris, London, Moscow, Krasnoyarsk. The third section presents a comparative analysis of existing Russian and foreign regulatory documents aimed at creating an environment of public open spaces in urbanized areas of a city. Of particular interest here are the methods of regulation that take into account functional content, development morphology, remoteness from city center, natural and socio-cultural characteristics, as well as those aimed at protecting the wildlife (Seattle, New York, Toronto, London, Victoria Australia). The socio-cultural phenomenon of public open spaces highlights the fundamental relationship between the quality of spatial environment and human consciousness, behavior, way of life. Therefore, a tailored approach to the creation of architectural and landscape planning regulations will allow to treat each public space substantively, preserving and maintaining the identity of the historical and cultural environment of a place.
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Mew, Geoff, and Adrian Humphris. "The 102-foot Australian Invasion of Central Wellington in the 1920s." Architectural History Aotearoa 8 (January 1, 2011): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/aha.v8i.7098.
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A significant change to the building bylaws by the Wellington City Council in the early 1920s allowed for the design and erection of much taller buildings in the central city than had previously been permitted. Coupled with the use of steel frames and concrete floors, buildings started to reach eight or nine storeys; not tall by American standards, but regarded as skyscrapers in a city where three- and four-storey buildings were still the norm. The fact that several of the most prominent of these new buildings were designed mainly by Australian architects, both in the 1920s and the early 1930s, does not seem to be widely known, or has been partially concealed by quoting the local supervising architects as the prime movers in the planning. Some of the buildings were erected to house branches or Wellington head offices of Australian firms but others were solely for New Zealand clients. The firm of A & K Henderson of Melbourne led the way with their 1926 design of the T & G Building (now Harcourts) on Lambton Quay, in association with Atkins and Mitchell. Australian born and trained Llewellyn Williams had already designed the tall, but narrow, Druids Chambers further to the north and went on to oversee more tall structures in the next few years. Hennessy & Hennessy, also Australian, pioneered Wellington Art Deco designs in the early 1930s. Both the building techniques and the architectural styles employed showed strong American influences, particularly the tripartite form developed in Chicago. At first the massing of Inter-War Stripped Classical was employed, later followed by the more flowing lines of Art Deco. Local architects were not slow to accept the new challenges required in the construction of taller, more massive buildings. The firm of Atkins and Mitchell was responsible for the DIC Building (now Harbour City Centre) in 1928 whereas JM Dawson had planned the Hope Gibbons Building, a rather more traditional structure, in Dixon Street in 1925. He was also responsible for Wakefield Chambers on the corner of Wakefield Street and Taranaki Street in 1928. The huge new commercial buildings of the 1920s took advantage of the increasing availability and affordability of electric power for lighting, heating, lifts and the pumping of water. Telephones could be fitted in every office; central heating started to be installed, and there was better fire-fighting equipment. Steel-framed buildings were less susceptible to earthquake shocks. Many of the buildings we describe here are still standing, although often modified for other uses. They have become iconic structures reflecting the marked advances of the 1920s era.
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Green, Anthony. "Maintaining surgical standards beyond the city in Australia." ANZ Journal of Surgery 73, no. 4 (April 2003): 232–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1445-1433.2003.02565.x.
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Kiroff, George. "Maintaining surgical standards beyond the city in Australia." ANZ Journal of Surgery 73, no. 4 (April 2003): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1445-1433.2003.02593.x.
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Mohamed Al MENTASHRI and Wael El ZEREY. "Spatial Interpolation of Toxic air Pollutants in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia." Journal of Natural Product Research and Applications 1, no. 02 (December 3, 2021): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.46325/jnpra.v1i02.16.
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This work aimed to study hazardous air pollutants in Jeddah city, between 2010 - 2018. The study of the spatial distribution of (NOX, SO2, PM10) was done by the application of the geostatistical method IDW. Daily observation Data were collected from three field observation stations (Bani Malik, Stadium, Industrial activity), and treated in ArcGIS environment. According to the obtained results, in the year 2010, NOX varies between (25 – 62.99 ppb), with very important concentrations in the south of the study area, surrounding the industrial activities. While in the year 2018, the highest concentrations were between (25 – 30.99 ppb) in the north of the study area. the spatial distribution of SO2 was very important in the south of the study area, compared to the highest concentrations in the north in 2018. The spatial distribution of PM10 was between (153 – 173 µg/m3) in the south of the study area, in 2018 we noticed a decrease of the PM10 concentration, in the industrial area with values between (67 – 77 µg/m3). Even though a lot of work must be done to improve air quality in the city of Jeddah to meet international air quality standards in modern cities.
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Cocks, KD, and C. Parvey. "Prospects for land use planning in arid Australia." Rangeland Journal 7, no. 1 (1985): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9850047.
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This paper describes the types of controls available to Australian land use planners, along with a brief survey of current issues in the use and management of the arid zone. The authors discuss possible roles for each of the four main types of available controls (zoning, site and management plans, performance standards and project impact assessment) in the arid zone. They conclude that performance standards and project impact assessment procedures are the controls most likely to prove useful in the management of the arid zone.
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Harris, Patrick, Jennifer Kent, Peter Sainsbury, Emily Riley, Nila Sharma, and Elizabeth Harris. "Healthy urban planning: an institutional policy analysis of strategic planning in Sydney, Australia." Health Promotion International 35, no. 4 (June 23, 2019): 649–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz056.
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Abstract Rapid urbanization requires health promotion practitioners to understand and engage with strategic city planning. This policy analysis research investigated how and why health was taken up into strategic land use planning in Sydney, Australia, between 2013 and 2018. This qualitative study develops two case studies of consecutive instances of strategic planning in Sydney. Data collection was done via in-depth stakeholder interviews (n = 11) and documentary analysis. Data collection and analysis revolved around core categories underpinning policy institutions (actors, structures, ideas, governance and power) to develop an explanatory narrative of the progress of ‘health’ in policy discourse over the study period. The two strategic planning efforts shifted in policy discourse. In the earlier plan, ‘healthy built environments’ was positioned as a strategic direction, but without a mandate for action the emphasis was lost in an economic growth agenda. The second effort shifted that agenda to ecological sustainability, a core aspect of which was ‘Liveability’, having greater potential for health promotion. However, ‘health’ remained underdeveloped as a core driver for city planning remaining without an institutional mandate. Instead, infrastructure coordination was the defining strategic city problem and this paradigm defaulted to emphasizing ‘health precincts’ rather than positioning health as core for the city. This research demonstrates the utility in institutional analysis to understanding positioning health promotion in city planning. Despite potential shifts in policy discourse and a more sophisticated approach to planning holistically, the challenge remains of embedding health within the institutional mandates driving city planning.
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Tuli, Sajeda C., Richard Hu, and Lain Dare. "Planning a global knowledge city: experience from Melbourne, Australia." International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 10, no. 1 (2019): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijkbd.2019.098228.
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Hu, Richard, Lain Dare, and Sajeda C. Tuli. "Planning a global knowledge city: experience from Melbourne, Australia." International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development 10, no. 1 (2019): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijkbd.2019.10019577.
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Khaleefah, N., and W. S. Alwan. "Green Zone Planning for City Sustainability." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 961, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 012075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/961/1/012075.
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Abstract : The importance of research has emerged by focusing on sustainable green zone planning to solve the problem of degradation through sustainable strategies, to make green areas determine buildings, not the other way around using GIS, by working on a hypothesis (green areas planning according to an appropriate strategy can sustain cities). The principle of urban planning, urban sustainability, sustainable planning and sustainable cities, as well as urban sustainability and many strategies that support green zone planning and rely on a number of factors for sustainable cities, have been addressed. The research was based on how to plan green areas sustainably, what constraints the planners face in the Dora area south of Baghdad, and the reasons for their deterioration in the urban environment, and after analysing and comparing the changes that occurred over three periods of time (2004 and 2009 and 2019) for 10 residential stores to assess the state of the green areas during that period and how they changed, what problems led to the reduction of areas, increased areas built at their expense, compared to the standards of urban and rural housing in Iraq and the basic plan of the company Paul Servis in 1971, Sustainable planning thus creates a balance in the environment, economy and social values so that these new places meet the work and life needs of the local population and their interests, as one of the indicators of sustainable cities environmental, social and economic, measured by the availability of green and preserved areas relative to population density and coverage, which are one of the most important components of the blocs of urban areas to continue the quality of urban life and environmental and social sustainability, and the ratio of green areas to areas built in a sample of the shop Housing in the study area is very few in most stores and is not in line with international standards, so the current standards need to be adjusted and increased from what they are now, as well as laws in general need to be updated because they are in their current state to achieve the sustainability of green areas in the study area. The most important proposals and solutions that address the problems of green areas (developing a specific strategy, developing some laws on the protection of green areas and setting environmental performance standards for green areas). The research recommended the need to review the planning standard for the individual’s share of green spaces as it does not correspond to the increase in population density, and to guide the pursuit of sustainable strategies within the plans prepared by the long-term municipal departments supporting green areas and work to support environmental performance within municipal circles by presenting the award for outstanding environmental performance on conservation capacity and increasing green spaces, urging a focus on the sustainability of Iraqi cities as they suffer from increased desertification and dredging of green areas and current climate change.
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Baum, Scott, Yolanda van Gellecum, and Tan Yigitcanlar. "Wired Communities in the City: Sydney, Australia." Australian Geographical Studies 42, no. 2 (July 2004): 175–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8470.2004.00274.x.
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Veal, A. J. "Open space planning standards in Australia: in search of origins." Australian Planner 50, no. 3 (September 2013): 224–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2012.739567.
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Taylor, John. "Planning for Conservation of the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens." Queensland Review 10, no. 2 (November 2003): 71–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600003330.
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Rockhampton is the principal city of Central Queensland. In the nineteenth century the city and the colony of Queensland were pursuing the policies of settlement, development and growth followed by the other colonies of Australia and in the British Empire.
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Jafrin, Maharina, and Beau Beza. "Developing an Open Space Standard in a Densely Populated City: A Case Study of Chittagong City." Infrastructures 3, no. 3 (September 19, 2018): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures3030040.
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In densely populated settings like Chittagong, Bangladesh cities facing rapid urbanization and economic growth are challenged to provide open space for its citizens. For example, the population of this port city is 14,200 people per square kilometer and there is a struggle to provide open space. Again, the planning proposal did not set any open space standard to achieve its open space aspirations Hence, the objectives of this paper are four-fold: (i) Develop an understanding of open space standards to establish relative benchmarks for potential use in Chittagong. (ii) Examine existing formal open space in Chittagong. (iii) Document the existing informal open space areas in Chittagong according to the planning direction. (iv) Recommend an approach that can be used to realize open spaces in Chittagong. To achieve these, this paper documents the existing open space scenario in the city, examines the recommended open space standards developed by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Dhaka Structural Plan (2016–2035) (the planning document of the capital city of Bangladesh) to identify to what extent these ‘benchmark’ standards are appropriate for use in the city. A discussion on open space in Chittagong and the criteria used to ‘frame’ open space calculations in the city is then conducted to provide a foundation to reflect upon the world’s various open space recommendations. Ultimately, by analyzing existing open space recommendations and their associated well-being aspirations, the research suggests that a new standard relating to the unique characteristics of the city should be used when developing open space standards in Chittagong.
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Samec, Ernie, and Barrie Melotte. "FORREST PLACE/CITY STATION REDEVELOPMENT, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA." Australian Planner 27, no. 1 (March 1989): 12–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.1989.9657406.
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E. Wawo, Merry, Joulanda A.M. Rawis, Deitje A. Katuuk, and Jeffry S. J. Lengkong. "Implementation of External Quality Assurance System in North Sulawesi." International Journal of Educational Research & Social Sciences 2, no. 3 (June 29, 2021): 513–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.51601/ijersc.v2i3.94.
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The role of external institutions in education quality assurance is very important in the External Quality Assurance System (SPME). This research is about the Implementation of Education Quality Assurance in North Sulawesi especially at Bitung City and Tomohon City. This research was conducted on planning the quality of education, quality of education, and evaluation of the quality of education in the Department of Education and Culture of Bitung City and Tomohon City. The research problems are: 1) How is the quality of education planning in Bitung City and Tomohon City?; and2) How is the implementation of the quality of education in Bitung City and Tomohon City?.This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive methods designed for a multi-site study design. Data were collected through observation, interviews and documentation. The data analysis used includes simultaneous process flow of activities, namely data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions.The results of this study indicate that: 1) Education quality planning in Bitung City and Tomohon city is carried out through joint meetings to focus more on program activities and strengthen appropriate and targeted activity programs. Planning for quality fulfillment in Bitung City is the result of recommendations for improvement from quality mapping activities, namely quality data analysis, namely standards, recommendations for improvement, volume, funding requirements. Quality planning in Tomohon City is carried out by implementing the implementation steps of the preparation of a quality fulfillment plan within the Tomohon City Education and Culture Office carried out by forming a regional education quality assurance team (TPMPD).2) Implementation of Education Quality Fulfillment in Bitung City is focused on process standards, facilities and infrastructure standards and educator standards. This is adjusted to the conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teacher Competency Improvement Program, namely activities carried out in the form of Distance Learning (PJJ) socialization, RPP Simplification Workshop, and Basic Competency Analysis. The implementation of quality fulfillment is carried out online and face-to-face for certain areas that are difficult to connect to the internet by paying attention to health protocols.
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Freestone, Robert. "Exporting the garden city: Metropolitan images in Australia, 1900–1930." Planning Perspectives 1, no. 1 (January 1986): 61–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665438608725613.
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Miah, Muhammad Shahin, Haiyan Jiang, Asheq Rahman, and Warwick Stent. "Audit effort, materiality and audit fees: evidence from the adoption of IFRS in Australia." Accounting Research Journal 33, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 186–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/arj-06-2018-0103.
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the association between International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) effort due to higher levels of material adjustments and audit fees. In addition, this paper tests whether these associations differ between industry specialist auditors and non-specialist auditors. Design/methodology/approach The authors measure IFRS effort by using differences between local GAAP and IFRS. More specifically, they measure the differences in the balances of accounts that are prepared under IFRS as opposed to the previously used Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) standards. They posit that higher material adjustments and more risk to fair presentation of financial statements require additional accounting and auditing effort (“IFRS effort”). Findings The authors find that audit fees are higher when accounting standards are more material and complex at an aggregate level. Nevertheless, not all standards are equally complex and/or material and not all individual standards contribute to higher audit fees. In addition, the results show that the positive association between IFRS effort and audit fees is more pronounced when firms are audited by city-level industry specialists than by non-industry specialists. Originality/value Overall, the results are consistent with the prediction of increasing audit fees for firms requiring higher levels of IFRS effort compared to firms requiring lower levels of IFRS effort. The results contribute to the understanding that not all IFRS are equally complex and, thereby, the standards require different levels of auditor effort. Isolating specific standards based on materiality/risk levels is informative to standard setters for standard setting, standard implementation and post-implementation review of standards.
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Carr, Ben, James Fitzsimons, Natalie Holland, Todd Berkinshaw, Keith Bradby, Stuart Cowell, Paula Deegan, et al. "CAPitalising on conservation knowledge: Using Conservation Action Planning, Healthy Country Planning and the Open Standards in Australia." Ecological Management & Restoration 18, no. 3 (June 19, 2017): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emr.12267.
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Alexander, Simone, and David Mercer. "Internal Migration in Victoria, Australia—Testing the ‘Sponge City’ Model." Urban Policy and Research 25, no. 2 (May 31, 2007): 229–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111140701344841.
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Burnley, I. H. "Immigration and Housing in an Emerging Global City, Sydney, Australia." Urban Policy and Research 23, no. 3 (September 2005): 329–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111470500197888.
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Harris, Patrick, Matt Fisher, Sharon Friel, Peter Sainsbury, Elizabeth Harris, Evelyne De Leeuw, and Fran Baum. "City deals and health equity in Sydney, Australia." Health & Place 73 (January 2022): 102711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102711.
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Danilina, Nina. "URBAN PLANNING EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CITIES." Биосферная совместимость: человек, регион, технологии, no. 3(27) (October 1, 2019): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.21869/23-11-1518-2019-27-3-36-43.
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Modern urban planning educational trend defines the sustainable development of smart cities as one of the most dynamic areas of city policies around the world. A smart city is a high-tech urban living environment in which innovative solutions are embedded in its constituent elements and processes to improve its quality and living standards. The concept of a smart city is aimed at sustainable development of urban areas and offers technology as a tool for solving problems in the field of planning, design, integrated engineering landscaping, as well as in the provision of urban services to the population. The article discusses the contents of the smart city concept, which reflects the main directions of the curriculum of the master's program «Sustainable Smart City». Its main purpose is to prepare urban planners who have professional competencies in the development of smart cities in the implementation of urban processes.
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Naudé, Marita, Mohammed A. Quaddus, Anna Rowe, and Margaret Nowak. "Adoption of environmental standards in Australia: focus on ISO 14001." International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology 18, no. 5 (July 19, 2011): 461–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2011.588270.
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Hopkins, Diane. "Planning a City through ‘Dialogue’: Deliberative Policy-making in Action in Western Australia." Urban Policy and Research 28, no. 3 (July 5, 2010): 261–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2010.490619.
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Carson, Dean, Doris Schmallegger, and Sharon Harwood. "A City for the Temporary? Political Economy and Urban Planning in Darwin, Australia." Urban Policy and Research 28, no. 3 (August 31, 2010): 293–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2010.509886.
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Meller, Helen. "Planning theory and women's role in the city." Urban History 17 (May 1990): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096392680001436x.
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Feminist historians have expended a good deal of energy on delineating the cultural concept of the Two Spheres This curious cultural phenomenon emerged in the wake of the evangelical revival and the Industrial Revolution, and caused people to believe that the world was divided into two to match the two sexes. The male part was the world of public affairs, commerce, business and, of course, the defence of the realm. The female centred on the private domain: home, family and children. The problem that this imposed on women has never yet been successfully resolved: the sexual division of labour and the domestic location of women's work. In Britain in the nineteenth century, as the population moved into the cities and standards of living rose (if patchily), the physical form of the modern urban environment took shape in ways which perpetuated the continuance of the Two Spheres. This was particularly true for middle-class women, whose lives in suburban retreats had little physical connection with the rest of the city. Of all the pressures which dictated the form of nineteenth-century cities, there was not one related to finding new ways for women to live in modern cities outside a rigid interpretation of the Two Spheres.
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Richardson, James K. "Percy Rollo Brett OBE (1923–2022)." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 10, no. 3 (September 26, 2022): 165–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v10n3.628.
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Percy Rollo Brett OBE (11 November 1923 to 8 August 2022) was a highly respected head of the PMG/APO (later Telecom Australia/Telstra) Research Laboratories between 1964 and 1975. He was promoted to Head of Planning for Telecom Australia in July 1975, and then State Manager, Victoria for that organization in 1980–1983. Rollo’s achievements as Director of the Research Laboratories included building links with Australian universities to strengthen the Laboratories’ expertise in longer term research, and masterminding the Laboratories’ move from six different sites in central Melbourne to a single site, in purpose-designed buildings in Clayton, opposite Monash University’s main campus. In the early 1970s, he used the expertise he gained as Chairman of the Telecommunications and Electronics Standards Committee of the Standards Association of Australia to lead the Australian Post Office’s conversion of all its standards to metric. Upon retirement in 1983 he was awarded the OBE.
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Sarker, Arif, Janet Bornman, and Dora Marinova. "A Framework for Integrating Agriculture in Urban Sustainability in Australia." Urban Science 3, no. 2 (May 3, 2019): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci3020050.
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Rapid urbanisation all over the world poses a serious question about urban sustainability in relation to food. Urban agriculture can contribute to feeding city dwellers as well as improving metropolitan environments by providing more green space. Australia is recognised as one of the most urbanised countries in the world, and achieving urban sustainability should be high on the policy and planning agenda. A strong consensus exists among policymakers and academics that urban agriculture could be a tenable way of enhancing urban sustainability, and therefore, it should be a vital part of planning processes and urban design as administered by local and state governments. However, in recent decades, planning has overlooked and failed to realise this opportunity. The most significant constraints to urban agriculture are its regulatory and legal frameworks, including access to suitable land. Without direct public policy support and institutional recognition, it would be difficult to make urban agriculture an integral part of the development and planning goals of Australian cities. Developing and implementing clear planning policies, laws and programs that support urban agriculture can assist in decreasing competing land demands. This study analyses the policy and planning practices that can support integrating urban agriculture into city land-use planning. It examines current practices and identifies existing opportunities and constraints. An integration framework for urban agriculture for Australian cities is presented. If implemented, such a conceptual framework would allow improved sustainability of cities by bringing together the advantages of growing food within a greener urban environment.
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BAILEY, MATTHEW. "Shopping for entertainment: malls and multiplexes in Sydney, Australia." Urban History 42, no. 2 (November 11, 2014): 309–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926814000583.
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ABSTRACTThis article examines multiplex cinema development and its close association with shopping centre expansion programmes in Australia. The article argues that while multiplex cinema construction in Australia echoed international developments, it also resulted from coalescing interests between local retail developers and film exhibitors, was guided by planning legislation and shaped by escalating institutional investment in the retail industry. Data mapping the emergence, growth and consolidation of multiplexes in Sydney, Australia's largest city, is used to illustrate this development, contributing to urban histories of the city and understandings of the ways in which its contours have been reshaped by consumer capitalism.
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Randolph, Bill. "Delivering the Compact City in Australia: Current Trends and Future Implications." Urban Policy and Research 24, no. 4 (December 2006): 473–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111140601035259.
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Grigoryeva, Elena, and Konstantin Lidin. "a modernist city." проект байкал 18, no. 68 (August 8, 2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.51461/projectbaikal.68.1807.
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The late stage in the development of a socialist city in the second half of the twentieth century is usually attributed to the phenomena of the “modernist wave”. This period saw the highest rise of the Irkutsk school of architecture, and we continue to publish materials about the wonderful Irkutsk sixtiers and their best urban planning projects, which have not lost their relevance. The lively, modern character of many aspects of the socialist city is discussed in articles from Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk. The article on updating Cheryomushki in Odessa is a continuation of a series of materials of the international Russian-German-Ukrainian project on a comparative study of the socialist legacy in the cities of the three countries. And the Winter University demonstrates attempts to apply modern standards of the integrated development of territories to the modernist districts of Irkutsk.
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Costa, Lucemeire da Silva. "A GÊNESE E EVOLUÇÃO DO URBANISMO MODERNO E A PRODUÇÃO DA CIDADE: ALGUMAS REFLEXÕES." Caminhos de Geografia 2, no. 4 (October 15, 2001): 38–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/rcg2415264.
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This article boardes the appearance and the development of modern city planning, through a short historic view, pointing out the Capitalism decisive paper in the cities transformation. This evolution will be board, firstly, in an amplified view to, later,
centralizes it in the Brazilian specific case. In this meaning, it's presented the city planning ap pearance and development in the urban-industrial age, the Machine Age (1900-1940) commons urban landscapes, the currents and urban moviments
in the XIX and XX centuries and the principals planning standards of measure adopt in the post war. In the Brazilian case, this study will be done through a historic periodization in four different moments, that identify the principal planning standards and recognize the social question teoric-politic circumstances and how the urban is represented in this model.
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Zakirova, Tatyana. "Application of innovative standards of “green” construction in Tatarstan on the example of Kazan." E3S Web of Conferences 274 (2021): 01001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127401001.
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The article discusses the prospects for the application of innovative technologies in the theory and practice of urban planning on the example of Kazan. Market relations in recent decades in our country have created a number of acute problems of modern urban planning – the curtailment of long-term planning, the reduction of environmental control in the city and its environs, etc. It is necessary to refer to the Healthy Cities initiative of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. The first steps in this direction have already been taken in Kazan. This is a project of the new business center of the Republic of Tatarstan «Smart City Kazan» and the first «smart house» built on the territory of the Technopolis Himgrad. In Kazan, there are prerequisites for the introduction of ecourban design methods. These are vast water areas of the Volga and Kazanka rivers, the banks of which have not yet been fully developed. This is a large square in the city center, which was vacated after moving the airport outside the city limits. For Kazan, it will also be useful to replace the decorative glass false facades, often found on brick buildings after reconstruction, with vertical «solar walls» of air thermal technology.
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Adrian, C., and R. Stimson. "Asian Investment in Australian Capital City Property Markets." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 18, no. 3 (March 1986): 323–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a180323.
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In the mid-1970s Asian investment in Australia accounted for less than 15% of the total foreign investment inflow. By 1984 the inflow from Asia had increased dramatically to 40% or $A4155 million per annum. Over the past ten years an increasing proportion of the Asian investment inflow has been directed to the capital city property markets—particularly Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and the Gold Coast. In this paper the reasons for these changes, and in particular the deregulation of the Australian finance sector and the underdeveloped conservative nature of Australian property markets, are analysed. It is argued that the changing nature of the capital city property markets is part of the process of integration into a world property market dominated by finance, corporate, and service linkages, and between the larger global cities, of which Sydney is one. Comparisons are made between the investment philosophies and behaviours of the Asian property investors active in Australia and those of their Australian and European counterparts. The paper focuses on the risk philosophies of the Asian investors and the degree to which they are providing a vital injection of funds for previously underdeveloped market opportunities. A critique is made of the existing Foreign Investment Review Board guidelines as they apply to equity investment by foreigners in Australian urban real estate. It is concluded that the guidelines have become an anachronism, and rather than protect the interest of Australia they have contributed to the growth in overseas indebtedness and are detrimental to sustained economic growth.
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Godfrey, Jayne M., and Ian A. Langfield-Smith. "Regulatory Capture in the Globalisation of Accounting Standards." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 37, no. 11 (November 2005): 1975–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3790.
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The Australian Financial Reporting Council recently shocked the world business community by unexpectedly announcing a change in the nation's approach to global-accounting-standards development. The change involved switching from ensuring consistency of Australian accounting standards with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) developed by the International Accounting Standards Board to outright adoption of IFRSs by 2005. At the time of the announcement, Australia had the most developed international harmonisation programme of any country with a well-developed financial reporting system. Events surrounding the change demonstrate how political the accounting standard-setting process can be as it continues to receive front-page media attention, and as it provides a platform in parliamentary and electoral debate. In the meantime, the US role in the global accounting standard-setting arena has moved through phases of indifference to potential active dominance, and European influences have waxed and waned. We examine whether swings in political and regulatory influences that occur when globalisation becomes a national and international goal are explained by regulatory capture theory. We also address the extent to which a subset of a single nation's regulatory system plays a key role in a series of larger national and international games. Drawing upon experiences in Australia, the United States, and the European Union, we identify political influences on initiatives to reform accounting-standard-setting environments, policies, and processes.
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ELIZAGA, Troy Dino, Juan Ramon JIMENEZ VERDEJO, and Jesus Alberto PULIDO ARCAS. "ASSESSMENT OF PLANNING STANDARDS OF REALLOCATION PROJECTS AFTER TYPHOON YOLANDA IN TACLOBAN CITY (PHILIPPINES)." Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ) 84, no. 764 (2019): 2151–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3130/aija.84.2151.
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Stevenson, Deborah. "Reflections of a 'great port city': the case of Newcastle, Australia." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 17, no. 1 (1999): 105–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d170105.
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Short, J. R. "Construction Workers and the City: 1. Analysis." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 20, no. 6 (June 1988): 719–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a200719.
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The aim in this paper is to highlight the importance of construction workers in the making of the built environment. After a discussion about the general nature of capital—labour relations in the construction industry, an example is taken of the recent history of the Builders' Labourers Federation of New South Wales, Australia. The impact of the union during the Sydney property boom of the 1970s is examined.
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Thi Lan Anh, Vu, and To My Vien. "Innovation of Curriculum Planning in Accordance with CDIO Standards at Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport." European Journal of Engineering Research and Science 3, no. 9 (September 24, 2018): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejers.2018.3.9.887.
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The CDIO initiative provides an integral approach including CDIO frameworks and CDIO standards in hopes of realizing students’ learning purposes and of figuring out learning experiences to meet output-standard based education and training. Many Vietnamese universities have become pilot places of CDIO implementation as a main curriculum development not only to satisfy social requirements and international standards, but also to boost creativeness and stimulate new assessment methods and improvements for the curricular. Due to requirements of all-sided and basic innovation of tertiary education ratified by Vietnamese Party and Government (phase 2010-2020), the CDIO implementation is considered as an indispensability in Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport. The paper is aimed to clarify the processes and procedures to develop curricular so as to meet social demands and international standards. This paper also mentions the principles to introduce this curriculum innovation to university educational institutions of Vietnam once the CDIO approach is put into application and implemented.
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Thi Lan Anh, Vu, and To My Vien. "Innovation of Curriculum Planning in Accordance with CDIO Standards at Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport." European Journal of Engineering and Technology Research 3, no. 9 (September 24, 2018): 29–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejeng.2018.3.9.887.
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The CDIO initiative provides an integral approach including CDIO frameworks and CDIO standards in hopes of realizing students’ learning purposes and of figuring out learning experiences to meet output-standard based education and training. Many Vietnamese universities have become pilot places of CDIO implementation as a main curriculum development not only to satisfy social requirements and international standards, but also to boost creativeness and stimulate new assessment methods and improvements for the curricular. Due to requirements of all-sided and basic innovation of tertiary education ratified by Vietnamese Party and Government (phase 2010-2020), the CDIO implementation is considered as an indispensability in Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport. The paper is aimed to clarify the processes and procedures to develop curricular so as to meet social demands and international standards. This paper also mentions the principles to introduce this curriculum innovation to university educational institutions of Vietnam once the CDIO approach is put into application and implemented.
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Engberg, Lars A. "Negotiating Green Retrofitting Standards in Danish Urban Renewal :- The Case of Copenhagen." Open House International 39, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 6–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2014-b0002.
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The City of Copenhagen aims to become the first carbon neutral capital in the world by 2025. Ten per cent of the total CO2-reduction target is to be achieved through energy retrofitting of existing buildings in the city. This article reports from an action research study in the urban renewal section in Copenhagen City Council where planners struggle to promote more and better energy retrofitting projects in the urban renewal scheme. The study finds that planners in fact approach green retrofitting as a ‘wicked problem’ that requires new solution strategies targeting the complexity of developing new retrofitting standards and solutions in the existing urban renewal framework. The analysis shows how planners’ strategic responses are challenged by competing worldviews concerning the role of urban renewal and the problems and potentials of green retrofitting in practice.
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McDonald, Jan. "A Short History of Climate Adaptation Law in Australia." Climate Law 4, no. 1-2 (July 25, 2014): 150–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18786561-00402013.
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This article reviews Australia’s experience with adaptation law. While climate change is likely to implicate a number of regulatory domains, most adaptation reform has been in the field of spatial and land use planning. These reforms have been influenced by the institutional, political and fiscal context for spatial planning. Traditional planning tools such as zoning, set-backs, and building standards have been modified to address the exacerbating effects of climate change. A preference for market-based autonomous adaptation has seen increased interest in information instruments and limited experimentation with conditional approvals. Three themes characterise Australia’s brief history of adaptation and are likely to affect its development: the need for trade-offs between competing interests; the relationship between law-making and climate science; and the complexity and fragmentation of roles and responsibilities for adaptation. These challenges have pervaded environmental law for decades. The adaptation imperative is an important opportunity to rethink and reframe their resolution.