The slow but continuous flight from the countryside leads to the abandonment and consequent deterioration of rural constructions. Therefore the problem of their recovery, also for diversified uses, arises. The reuse problem becomes more heightened in case of small-sized constructions; hence special forms of recovery need to be identified to enable their reuse focused on functional integration. ...

DEDICATION To my parents and family for their endless love and support. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to Kathleen Lugosch and Stephen Schreiber for their academic advices and kind help. Urban Villages are a specific phenomenon raised in modern China due to the high-speed economic development and urbanization in recent three decades. And there are social, economic, cultural and architectural ...

After decades of centralization and government control, port infrastructure development and provision of services in Mexico are being transferred to the private sector. As the country prepares to enter the 21st century, port infrastructure will play a key role in strengthening and diversifying Mexico's international trade. The commitment to port improvement should remain strong despite currentl...

This paper links research and teaching through an applied Soft Systems Methodology case study. The case study focuses on the redevelopment of a Research and Professional Skills module to provide support for international postgraduate students through the use of formative feedback with the aim of increasing academic research skills and confidence. The stages of the Soft Systems Methodology were ...

This paper reports the redevelopment and subsequent evaluation of a unit in dialectology within a foreign language curriculum (German). In doing so it is a case study which serves to offer insight into the student experience of studying linguistics within a foreign language curriculum, the potential of online/electronic pedagogies for the teaching of dialectology and the way in which creative, ...

Th is paper focuses on the redevelopment of the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering at Queensland University of Technology. It describes the theoretical framework upon which reconceptualisation for redevelopment was based and outlines some of the outcomes that have emerged through implementation of the model for change which developed. What emerges is a Faculty committed to transformat...

The time course of the ability of active shortening was compared to that of isometric contractile force during contraction-relaxation cycles of the pedal retractor muscle of Mytilus by measuring the maximal shortening velocity and the rate of force redevelopment after a quick release. The contractile force had its peak at 2 s after stimulus initiation and decayed with a half relaxation time of ...

Brownfields are properties for which redevelopment is hampered by known or suspected contamination and by concerns about associated liability. Because failing to redevelop brownfields may negatively affect welfare and the environment, a number of states have created voluntary programs to reduce liability risks and encourage redevelopment of brownfields. For clean or remediated properties, the s...

In this article, five villages in Sichuan earthquake-stricken area are selected for study as examples. By building Logistic of binary choice models to analyze the influencing factors of peasants’ autonomy to play in post-earthquake reconstructions, authors found there was a positive correlation between education, subjective cognition of reconstruction, willingness to participate, effectiveness ...

Since the early 2010s, sub-divided flats have been proliferating in Hong Kong—one of world’s most compact and expensive cities to live in. The growth informal housing city has long attributed shortage supply. Apart from developing new land for housing, one possible approach deal with supply constraint is speed up redevelopment old buildings centre order maximise use potential. Yet, this brings ...