Following earthquake events multiple soil slope failures are observed throughout the structurally fragile soil and rock in North Island, New Zealand. Many of these slopes are located in close proximity to various assets including residential buildings and roads, resulting in damage to the structures. Limited mitigation solutions are available to stabilise both the global integrity and surficial...

The usage of social theories in the human-built environment caused to enhance life quality. It may consist of human needs in residential areas. Sometimes, building codes can help to exist accepted life space, but the building codes do not have basic theory such as actual open space in residential plots. The study was an attempt to represent a new approach in urban land subdivision and the relat...

green space, as a social development indicator has environmental, social, cultural, economical, and skeletal aspects and to be able to play its role effectively, the first and most important step is to select an appropriate site for it. site selection necessitates stability analysis of urban green space. the main three steps are identifying stability factors, ahp-based weighting factors and lay...

Cloud Storage Providers (CSPs) offer geographically data stores providing several storage classes with different prices. An important problem facing by cloud users is how to exploit these storage classes to serve an application with a time-varying workload on its objects at minimum cost. This cost consists of residential cost (i.e., storage, Put and Get costs) and potential migration cost (i.e....

threats are one of the most fundamental problems of our modern societies that daily will affect citizens in urban spaces. this becomes more problematic when the people in their everyday living spaces encounter with behaviors that cause lack of security and should have been feel comfort and their families used these spaces freely. this causes many problems for citizens. in today cities because o...

Low-density residential development, the fastest growing land use in the USA, is increasingly occurring adjacent to protected areas and in areas of high biodiversity. Thus, determining the environmental impacts, including the cumulative impacts, of proposed residential developments is a pressing challenge. The relative abundance and species richness of anurans in 19 ponds surrounded by landscap...

The aim of this study is to investigate the discrete factors of gentrification modeled by cellular Automata. The gentrification is the arriving of middle and high social classes in the inner-city areas. It corresponds to the residential mobility of solvent households, attracted by residential comfort and the central retailing equipment. The proximity, diversity and quality of this equipment bec...

A scanning-laser glint meter designed for field measurements of sea-surface slope statistics is described. A narrow laser beam is scanned in a line, and specular reflections (glints) are counted in bins according to their slope angle. From normalized glint histograms, moments to the fourth order are calculated, and slope probability density functions are approximated with a Gram-Charlier expans...

While households’ general preference for low-density residential environments is well documented in the literature, little research in geography and urban planning has explicitly investigated how many and which households experience a state of mismatch in terms of land use patterns between their preferred residential neighborhood type and the type of neighborhood where they currently reside. Us...