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4º Distrito de Porto Alegre: Um panorama histórico-temático dos planos e ações governamentais das últimas três décadas (1991 - 2021) = 4th District of Porto Alegre: A historical-thematical overview of governmental plans and actions of the last three decades (1991 - 2021)
(Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geografico do Rio Grande do Sul, 2022)RESUMO Nas últimas três décadas, uma série de planos e projetos foram elaborados pela Prefeitura de Porto Alegre visando a reestruturação urbana do seu antigo distrito industrial: o 4º Distrito. Através do resgate e análise ... -
Anti-social distancing
(2021-06-17)In this excerpt from the 2020 iteration of Unitec Institute of Technology's recently re-imagined, peer-reviewed journal, Asylum, Dr. David Turner revisits Auckland's Unitary Plan and explores how the housing density changes ... -
Anti-social distancing : revisiting Auckland’s Unitary Plan
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Planning systems in Auckland have been revised over a decade of complex realignments that followed the amalgamation of the region’s seven cities into a single planning administration. The city’s Unitary Plan, which came ... -
Architecture as a tool for inclusion and community building : Women in Fabrication at Zayed College for Girls
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Women in Fabrication is a collaborative platform that empowers female high-school students, architecture students and young architects through design and construction. The project partnered with Zayed College for Girls to ... -
Backyard death in Auckland
(Unitec Institution of Technology, 2017-11-21)This paper is an extension of Griffith University urban form professor Tony Hall’s work on private open space. In his book The Life and Death of the Australian Backyard 1 ; and the journal entries Where have all the Gardens ... -
The Brazilian metropolitan regions in the context of the statute of metropolis: the importance of collaborative governance.
(Instytut Metropolitalny, 2016)The current urban situation is represented by issues that go beyond municipal boundaries and by increasingly complex arrangements between cities. Part of this complexity arises from the polycentric character of metropolitan ... -
Climate change and housing: Exploring a New Urban model to help build resilience to climate change
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)The environmental effects of climate change and the provision of affordable housing are seen as essential yet disparate issues in contemporary urban discourse in Aotearoa New Zealand. We argue that these two critical ... -
Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative
(AGM A Division of BCI Central, 2022-10-27)At a time when housing markets in Aotearoa New Zealand are slowing down, there might be an unexpected opportunity to revisit some of the regulations that direct our urban housing policies. -
Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative house-type
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The main objectives of housing policy in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland are to increase the city’s density and to increase its total stock of affordable housing. In the current market, family housing for lower-priced mid-density ... -
Defining the methodology of integrated research in the process of digital documentation of architectural heritage: case study Lizori, Italy
(University of L'Aquila, Italy, 2019-12)The aim of this paper is to define the methodology of integrated research in the process of digital documentation of architectural heritage. The thematic framework of this work was stimulated by participation in a professional ... -
Density, energy and metabolism of a proposed smart city
(Anglo-American Publishers, 2017)This paper reports on a detailed analysis of the metabolism of the Island City of Mumbai should the Indian Government’s proposal for ‘smart’ cities be implemented. It focuses on the environmental impact of increased ... -
Design dialogues : ambiguity of “design” within Architectural Studio
(2017)The ambiguous nature of the word “design” offers up a complex dialectic dialogue for the architectural studio lecturers to impart to their students. Discussing the “design”, more commonly referred to as the programme or ... -
The design of the Dilworth Building
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The Dilworth Building was architecture firm Gummer and Ford’s first significant building. It was completed in 1927 and sits on one of the most prominent locations in Aotearoa New Zealand, the corner of Queen Street and ... -
Dirt under our fingernails: Daylighting waste at the Dome
(enigma : he aupiki, 2022-03-29)[...] How might this “productivist bias” be countered by taking erosion, breakdown and decay as our starting points? In this article I explore this possibility with respect to a controversial proposed landfill in Dome ... -
Diverse morphology : a study of Chancery Square
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)The design of the urban environment is a challenging and complex exercise. The way people experience and use public open spaces is a valuable source of information for planning our cities. Indeed, understanding how these ... -
drawing Japan
(Unitec Institution of Technology, 2018)Students from Unitec's landscape and architecture programmes visited Japan in September 2018. Architecture lecturer Jeanette Budgett and teamed up with Hikoi Garden Tours (Penny Cliffin and Ian Henderson) to offer an ... -
EDFAB : design and building of a plywood research house
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)INTRODUCTION: EDFAB: Eco-digital Fabrication Research Project was a collaboration between researchers and students from the University of Auckland’s and Unitec Institute of Technology’s Schools of Architecture. The ... -
Encountering the pedagogy of live and interactive architectural projects
(Queensland University of Technology, 2017)The use of the word “live” as a prefix for a project, is a thought-provoking, and perplexing concept; does one assume that all other projects are dead? Or is it that "(a)live," in the studio build paradigm, is about the ... -
Enigmatic assemblages: Follies at the intersection of architecture and photography
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)Hyperreal architectural photographic assemblages proliferate within contemporary media: artists, photographers and architects envision digital worlds that operate at the intersection of hyperreal architectural renders, ... -
Entre o sonho e a realidade : a habitação social no Brasil de uma perspectiva histórica
(Faculdade de Arquitetura Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Brasil, 2015-06-28)Atualmente a temática da habitação tem sido amplamente discutida pela relevância que assume para a sociedade e, especialmente, para os países da America Latina, com significativos problemas sociais. O presente trabalho faz ...
