The scientific heritage of M. R. G. Conzen, who is considered one of the most outstanding historical geographers and urban morphologists in the world, has made a huge impact on the contemporary urban historic morphology. Nowadays it would be very hard to imagine this scientific discipline without his achievements. He created a new point of view on the city, first within the Anglo-Saxon, and aft...

This paper describes and evaluates the background, methodology and successful application of a historic landscape characterisation project undertaken between 1999 and 2000 in Lancashire (NW England). It begins with a description of the need and context for the project, from the perspective of English Heritage as a part of a national programme, from the viewpoint of Lancashire County Council who...

The genetic status of wolves in the western Great Lakes region has received increased attention following the decision to remove them from protection under the US Endangered Species Act. A recent study of mitochondrial DNA has suggested that the recovered wolf population is not genetically representative of the historic population. We present microsatellite genotype data on three historic sampl...

The building and service sector accounts for nearly 40% of total energy use in Sweden. existing, historic stock large part this comprises an important the national pursuit to increase efficiency. One main problem decreasing existing is lack data describing thermal performance characteristics. This paper presents a novel development change-point model predicting buildings using selected time per...

While empowering the revitalization of Chinese historic districts, rapid development tourism industry may also endanger local cultures and streetscapes. To achieve goal sustainable find an approach for districts to develop while taking into account landscape conservation, district management, living convenience, this paper uses expert interviews (including in-depth Modified Delphi interviews) s...

during different historic periods, land of iran has been invaded by alien tribes and iranian written works such as religious, scientific and historic books have been subjected to detruction and demolition for several times. many historical evidences have referred to background of this issue and at the same time they testified that iranian cultural written hertage has been subjected to recovery ...

Extended abstractIntroductionIn the past two decades, with development and prioritization of sustainable urban regeneration patterns, new areas have entered planning literature world. The rapid urbanization process has had an impact on structure cities, in particular, housing system neighborhood center old texture city. Meanwhile, perhaps most important problem is decline collective spirit soci...