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Critical perspectives on media architecture: is it still possible to design projects without negatively affecting urban nighttime environments and will the future remain dynamic, bright and multi-colored?
PublicationNowadays, due to advances in electrical devices, new digital media, lighting, information and communication technologies, cities are being used 24/7. The paper discusses critical aspects of Media Architecture in the context of public spaces as well as urban nighttime environments from the perspective of a practising lighting architect. The author examines recent issues of negative design approaches and presents proposals for improving...
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A multi‑criteria approach to investigate spatial distribution,sources, and the potential toxicological effect of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediments of urban retention tanks
PublicationBottom sediments deposited in retention tanks (RTs) located on two urban streams (Oliwski and Strzyza) in the central part of Gdansk (Poland) were analysed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons’ (PAHs) content. PAHs were extracted from samples with methylene chloride, then the extracts were subjected to clean-up applying the solid phase extraction (SPE) method. Quantitative and qualitative determination of 16 PAHs was performed...
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The effect of anthropogenic activity on BTEX, NO2, SO2, and CO concentrations in urban air of the spa city of Sopot and medium-industrialized city of Tczew located in North Poland
PublicationThe major goal of the present study is to compare the air quality of two urban locations situated in Northern Poland – the spa City of Sopot and the medium-industrialized city of Tczew using chemometric methods. As a criterion for the assessment of atmospheric air quality, measurements of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and total xylenes were used (collected from atmospheric air using diffusion-type passive samplers) as well as...
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Coupled Urban Areas Inundation Model with Interaction Between Storm Water System and Surface Flow - Case Study of Sea Level Impact on Seaside Areas Flooding
PublicationInundations are becoming more frequent than ever. What is connected with increasing area of impervious surface in cities. This makes predicting urban flooding and its scale especially important. At the seaside we observe additional conditions such as sea level that makes accurate numerical modelling of issue even harder. With complex approach to the matter which is simultaneous calculation of storm water conduit flow and overland...
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Medieval Bourgeois Tenement Houses as an Archetype for Contemporary Architectural and Construction Solutions: The Example of Historic Downtown Gdańsk
PublicationThe basic urban tissue of medieval European cities consisted of brick townhouses. In the cities of northern Europe, these tenements were characterised by a block based on an elongated rectangular plan, covered with a gable roof with a ridge oriented perpendicularly to the street. The side walls of the tenement house were common for both neighbours and constituted a basic structural element. The gable façades were not loaded with...
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Methods of quality assessment and analysis of data given in customer service process on example of selected urban communication organization - result of research 2016
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Rozwój cywilizacyjny i technologiczny jako czynnik kształtujący obraz miejskiej przestrzeni = Technological and civizational evolution as a factor that forms the urban space
PublicationDostrzeżenie zależności pomiędzy formą, funkcjonalnością, estetyką jest dla projektanta istotną częścią procesu projektowego.Walory estetyczne nie koniecznie muszą się łączyć z funkcjonalnością. Widoczne jest to na przykładzie rozwoju miast. Stare struktury miejskie nie odpowiadają potrzebom współczesnych mieszkańców.Jednocześnie istnieje potrzeba troski o nie. Pojawia się także kwestia odpowiedzi jak zachować takie miasta. czy...
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Islam versus Architecture and Urban Order in the Time of Changes : Social and Cultural Aspects of Housing Architecture Transformation in the Arab Countries of Northern Africa
PublicationArtykuł jest omówieniem obserwacji tradycyjnej i współczesnej zabudowy mieszkaniowej przeprowadzonych przez autora w Algierii (1978) i Libii (1984-1988). Realizowane obecnie struktury i kultywowane formy zamieszkiwania wzorowane są na rozwiązaniach ''zachodnich'' odmiennych od rozwiązań tradycyjnych. Są one niedostosowane do wymogów środowiska naturalnego i pozostają w sprzeczności z zasadami określonymi przez Koran i sunnę. Rozdźwięk...
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Urban city lights. Light pollution as one of the effects of incorrectly designed external illumination. How can a successful lighting masterplan diminish its impact?
PublicationIn the modern world, artificial lighting brings many tangible benefits such as the ability to extend working hours and so increase production, recreational use of the city after dark, or the possibility to travel regardless of the time of day. However, this flexibility comes at a price and negatively impacts on the environment. One such negative phenomenon is Light Pollution ‐ a term used to describe excessive nighttime artificial...
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PUBLIC SPACES FOR LOCAL LIFE / Shared values in diversified urban communities as a foundation for participatory provision of local public spaces, 23-27 May 2017, Ljubljana Slovenia
PublicationThe Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) and partners hosted a 5-day international event addressing participatory planning of local urban public space in socially, economically and ethnically diverse communities. The event was structured in three interrelated activities: a seminar, a workshop and a field-trip. Special emphasis was given to the means of revealing shared values that local inhabitants and other...
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Connected & Automated Urban Mobility, Zombie Cars and Kitchen Knives: Will Autonomous Automobiles, Self-Driving Car-Sharing and Ride-Hailing, and Driverless Shuttles Harm Cities?
PublicationThere is a deficiency of supportive evidence to verify thesis that cities are prepared for mobility revolution which already begun and will advance exponentially. Furthermore, present revisions mostly emphasize how emerging mobility solutions will alter transport efficiency or affect mass transit usage, rather than on urban morphology, metropolitan society, nor local communities. Author is thoroughly concerned that municipalities...
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Impact of Large-scale urban interventions on contemporary city centers. Gdansk case study. Wpływ przedsiewzięć urbanistycznych dużej skali na centra miast. Studium przypadku Gdańska
PublicationLarge scale urban interventions have become a common development practice in cotemporary cities, allowing achieving rapid changes in their urban structure. They can be analyzed taking into account various perspectives. Some of them include planning and development models, transformation of brownfields and other types of distressed urban areas, as well as consequences and results of their implementation in existing urban structures....
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Carbon dioxide potential reduction using Start-Stop system in a car
PublicationOperating fuel consumption increases significantly when the vehicle stops frequently while driving or when the engine is idling during braking. In such cases, the internal combustion engine consumes the fuel but the mechanical energy is not used by the drive system. The amount of fuel that is consumed in this time by the engine can potentially be saved if the car is equipped with a Stop-Start system. Start-Stop system automatically...
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Study on transmission quality in cellular 4G and 5G networks between 2019–2021: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of provided services by operating base transceiver stations
PublicationThe COVID-19 pandemic has significantly limited user mobility, not least among students. Remote learning had a particular impact on resource allocation in relation to using terrestrial cellular networks, especially 4G systems in urban agglomerations. This paper presents the results of a quality evaluation of an outdoor environment, carried out between 2019 and 2021 on the campus of a technical university. Annual studies are conducted...
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Mobility Oriented Development (MOD): Public-Private Partnership in Urban Parking & Traffic Management with the Use of Autonomous Automobiles, Car-Sharing, Ridesharing Modes of Transport & Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
PublicationThe focus of the following research are relations between mobility technologies and metropolitan (urban and suburban) spatial structures. In this paper the author discusses various urban modes of transport (automobile, mass transit) in the context of emerging technical (autonomous vehicles, self-driving cars and driverless shuttles) and organizational (carpooling, ridesharing, car-sharing, on-demand mobility) solutions for " mobility...
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MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF FLOOD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE CITY OF GDAŃSK, ORUŃSKI STREAM CASE STUDY
PublicationAim of the study This study analyses the efficiency of flood protection in a small urban catchment, based on a system of small reservoirs. Material and methods To assess the flood routing and surge reduction, a mathematical model of the river catchment was implemented. This was a lumped hydrological model, based on the SCS-CN method. Channel routing was performed, using kinematic wave equation. The sub-catchments have been determined...
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Stormwater and snowmelt runoff storage control and flash flood hazard forecasting in the urbanized coastal basin.
PublicationCity of Gdańsk is located in a coastal region where changing climatic conditions increase the frequency of extreme weather events. Developing urbanization affects the hydrology of natural basins by simplification of the drainage system and reduction of infiltration and base flow. Consequently greater runoff rates flow into storm water collection systems, reservoirs and surrounding water bodies. Not only infrastructures of urban...
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Measuring research on radio wave propagation
PublicationTelecommunication connections are increasingly based on the wireless links, both fixed and mobile, carried out under different radio systems. This kind of solution has many advantages. However, the propagation medium is a factor that causes many difficulties in designing wireless networks, because of large diversity of propagation environments. Transmission loss in each environment is determined by many variables phenomena and...
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Stormwater runoff in the urbanized coastal basin of Gdańsk Urbanized basin of Gdańsk
PublicationAnthropopressure strongly affects the primal water cycle. Alternation of the natural basins imposes changes of drainage patterns, reduction of bioretention, infiltration and base flow. As a result the overland flow predominates and greater runoff rates flow into storm water collection systems and reservoirs. Moreover changing climatic conditions increase the frequency of rapid extreme weather events. Infrastructures of urban areas...
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Aquaponics Based Artificial Biosphere Included in Architecture: From Mitigation of Negative Impacts to Positive Added Values of Urban Spatial Structures on Local, Regional and Global Scale
PublicationTechnologies may appear faster than spatial planning can afford it. Alt hough applying new technologies solve particular problems, it may also create new ones. Many negative consequences of implementing new technologies are visible a fter years or decades – they accumulate until the need of solving them. According to The Hannover Principles (McDonough & Braungart 2013) one should, by example not think about...
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Architektura współczesnego muzeum i jej znaczenie dla tożsamości krajobrazu miasta = The Architecture of Contemporary Museum and its Significance for the Identity of the Urban Landscape
PublicationArtykuł dotyczy architektury współczesnych muzeów, które pod koniec XX w. przeszły znaczący rozwój jako instytucje publiczne. Oprócz specyficznych wymagań technicznych, funkcjonalnych, estetycznych i kulturowych, ich charakterystyczną cechą jest wzrastające zapotrzebowanie na przestrzeń dodatkową służącą edukacji, odpoczynkowi, rozrywce i strefie komercyjnej (handlu i usług). Atrakcyjna przestrzeń publiczna zapewnia dostęp do wszystkich...
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A comparative study of sequential extraction methods for identification of trace elements fractions (Cr, Ni, Pb, Cd) in urban soils from several parks
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Environmental tracers and groundwater residence time indicators reveal controls of arsenic accumulation rates beneath a rapidly developing urban area in Patna, India
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Jakość wód spływających z powierzchni dachów budynków na terenie aglomeracji wielkomiejskiej. Quality of roof runoff water from the urban region
PublicationBadano próbki wód spływnych z dachów budynków na terenie miasta Gdańska. Oznaczono stężenia następujących analitów: pestycydy azoto-, chloro- i fosfo-organiczne, węglowodory ropopochodne, kationy Na+, K+, NH4+, Mg2+, Ca2+ oraz aniony F-, Cl-, NO2-, NO3-, PO43-, SO42-, ponadto wykonywany był pomiar toksyczności i wartości pH. Próbki pobierane były w trzech punktach zlokalizowanych w Gdańsku wzdłuż głównych szlaków komunikacyjnych....
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Program URBAN II w Europie jako jedno z narzędzi polityki Unii Europejskiej w planowaniu przestrzennym miast - przypadek Berlina
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The Impact of Adjacent Road on Vascular Plant Species Composition in Herbaceous Layers of Peucedano-Pinetum and Tilio-Carpinetum Urban Forests in the City of Warsaw (Poland)
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Natalia Ejtminowicz, Katarzyna Urban, Antoni Zięba (red.), Ekologia prokreacji. Vademecum, Polskie Stowarzyszenie Obrońców Życia, Kraków 2016, ss. 360
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Energy efficiency of electric multiple units in suburban operation
PublicationThis thesis presents approach to analysis of energy efficiency of a suburban rail network, using novel models developed on the Matlab/Simulink basis. Necessary features and requirements for such models were determined thru in-depth review of the source literature in all applicable fields: electrified transportation systems, electric multiple units construction, vehicle drivetrains and finally, existing simulation methods. Existing...
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An application of blended and collaborative learning in spatial planning course
PublicationSpatial Planning is a master course for graduate students of Environmental Engineering. The course is based on assumptions that students’ future work will be connected with spatial planning, and spatial issues will have an influence on their everyday lives. To familiarize students with environmental issues in planning, the teams of students get an assignment to design an urban space, waterfront along a stream. The whole project...
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Travel Time of Public Transport Vehicles Estimation
PublicationEffective prediction of speed is central to advanced traveler information and transportation management systems. The speed of public transport vehicles is affected by many external factors including traffic volume, organization and infrastructure. The literature presents methods for estimating travel time on sections of a transport network and vehicle arrival at stops, often making use of the AVL (automatic vehicle location). The...
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Biomonitoring and health risks assessment of trace elements in various age- and gender-groups exposed to road dust in habitable urban-industrial areas of Hefei, China
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Social media and efficient computer infrastructure in smart city
PublicationSocial media require an efficient infrastructures of computer and communication systems to support a smart city. In a big city, there are several crucial dilemmas with a home and public space planning, a growing population, a global warming, carbon emissions, a lack of key resources like water and energy, and a traffic congestion. In a smart city, we expect an efficient and sustainable transportation, efficient management of resources...
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Distributed System For Noise Threat Evaluation Based On Psychoacoustic Measurements
PublicationAn innovative system designed for the continuous monitoring of acoustic climate of urban areas was presentedin the paper. The assessment of environmental threats is performed using online data, acquired through a grid ofengineered monitoring stations collecting comprehensive information about the acoustic climate of urban areas.The grid of proposed devices provides valuable data for the purpose of long and short time acoustic climateanalysis....
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Uptake, accumulation, and translocation of Zn, Cu, Pb, Cd, Ni, and Cr by P. australis seedlings in an urban dredged sediment mesocosm: impact of seedling origin and initial trace metal content
PublicationThe study presents results from 6 months of phytoremediation of sediments dredged from three urban retention tanks carried out in a mesocosm setup with the use of P. australis. Two kinds of P. australis seedlings were considered: seedlings originating from natural (uncontaminated - Suncont) and anthropogenically changed environments (contaminated – Scont); this distinction was reflected in the baseline concentrations of trace metals...
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WHAT KIND OF CITY ARE WE BUILDING? WHAT KIND OF CITY DO WE WANT TO BUILD? Re-viewing three different urban developments in metropolitan areas
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Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context
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Idea urbanistyczna Juliana Rummla i jej wpływ na międzywojenne plany Gdyni = The Urban Idea of Jukiab Rummel and Its Influence on the Interwar Plans of Gdynia
PublicationJulian Rummel nie był ani architektem ani urbanistą. Był inżynierem budowy okrętów, działaczem gospodarczym, jednym w wielkich orędowników budowy portu i miasta Gdyni oraz współtwórcą polskiej polityki morskiej II Rzeczypospolitej. W połowie 1924 roku, kiedy rozpoczęto w Gdyni przebudowę otwartego zaledwie rok wcześniej Portu Tymczasowego na wielki, uniwersalny port stały, Julian Rummel był pierwszym którzy zwracali uwagę na pilną...
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Occurence volatile halogenoorganic compounds in precipitation in an urban area in Tricity (Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot). Występowanie lotnych związków fluorowcoorganicznych w opadach atmosferycznych na terenie miejskim.
PublicationSzczególne znaczenie wśród zanieczyszczeń występujących w wielkomiejskim powietrzu atmosferycznym, mają lotne związki chlorowcoorganiczne, ze względu na powszechność stosowania i trwałość (od 77 dni - CH2Cl2 do 67 lat - CCl4). Większość związków chlorowcoorganicznych stanowi zagrożenie dla życia ludzkiego przez swoje kancerogenne, mutagenne i teratogenne działanie. Związki chlorowcoorganiczne obecne w środowisku są w większości...
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Application of Traction Supply System for Charging Electric Cars
PublicationThe development of electromobility involves the development of electric cars charging infrastructure. The increase of the number of chargers poses new demands for the AC power grid, especially in regard to its capacity of delivering high peak power. As an alternative for the public AC power grid, urban electrified transportation systems (trams, trolleybuses, and metro) can be used for supplying electric cars chargers. The article...
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The reduction of auxiliaries power demand: The challenge for electromobility in public transportation
PublicationAn important role in the consumption of electric energy in urban transport are non-traction needs (auxiliaries), the main part of which is heating and air condition (HVAC). Auxiliaries are responsible for almost half of total energy consumption (normal weather conditions) and in the winter (or hot summer) it reaches up to 70% in daily scale. The reduction of energy used for non-traction needs is currently the main challenge related...
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An Overview of Bidirectional EV Chargers: Empowering Traction Grid-Powered Chargers
PublicationIn recent years, the number of electric vehicles has been at least doubling year after year. As a result, today electric vehicles already account for approximately 10% of the global automotive market, which positively affects environment in urbanized areas. However, to take full advantage of the EV integration it is necessary to use renewable sources for their charging; optimally place charging stations/terminals; optimally manage...
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Wariantowa koncepcja usuwania zanieczyszczeń w systemie projektowanego zbiornika retencyjnego na Potoku Królewskim na terenie kampusu Politechniki Gdańskiej w zależności od warunków hydraulicznych
PublicationProces urbanizacji pociąga za sobą istotne konsekwencje dla zlewni miejskich, do których należą: wzrost objętości spływów deszczowych, skrócony czas koncentracji spływów deszczowych, wzrastające zagrożenie podtopieniami i powodziami, w okresach suszy zmniejszony przepływ w ciekach, rosnące zanieczyszczenie spływów opadowych, zmiana mikroklimatu na terenach miejskich. Zmiany...
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Passive sampling techniques in monitoring of BTEX in urban air = Technika dozymetrii pasywnej w monitoringu analitów z grupy BTEX w powietrzu atmosferycznym na obszarach miejskich
PublicationLotna związki organiczne, a wśród nich związki z grupy BTEX, odgrywają istotną rolę w chemii środowiska. Mogą one oddziaływać znacząco na abiotyczną jak i biotyczną część środowiska. Nie bez znaczenia jest również wpływ LZO na organizmy żywe w tym na zdrowie ludzkie. Ponadto posiadają one zdolność do kumulowania się w organizmach żywych zwiększając ryzyko zachorowań. Niektóre z nich mogą również niekorzystnie oddziaływać na organizmy...
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Passive sampling techniques in monitoring of BTEX in urban air = Technika dozymetrii pasywnej w monitoringu analitów z grupy BTEX w powietrzu atmosferycznym na obszarach miejskich
PublicationLotna związki organiczne, a wśród nich związki z grupy BTEX, odgrywają istotną rolę w chemii środowiska. Mogą one oddziaływać znacząco na abiotyczną jak i biotyczną część środowiska. Nie bez znaczenia jest również wpływ LZO na organizmy żywe w tym na zdrowie ludzkie. Ponadto posiadają one zdolność do kumulowania się w organizmach żywych zwiększając ryzyko zachorowań. Niektóre z nich mogą również niekorzystnie oddziaływać na organizmy...
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Poziomy stężeń lotnych związków chlorowcoorganicznych w wodach opadowych na terenie dużej aglomeracji miejskiej = Measurement of volatile chloroorganic compounds in urban rainwater (Gdańsk, Sopot, Gdynia)
PublicationW 105 próbkach opadów atmosferycznych (deszcz, deszcz ze śniegiem) zebranych z terenu Trójmiasta w okresie od listopada 2000 r. do maja 2001 r. oznaczano chloro - i bromopochodne metanu, etanu i etenu (7 różnych związków). Najczęściej wykrywanymi i oznaczanymi były: chloroform i czterochlorek węgla, (bardzo popularne rozpuszczalniki stosowane jako środki chłodzące i czyszczące). Najwyższe stężenia obserwowano w przypadku chloroformu,...
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The impact of organizational culture on employees' decisions on the selection of bibycles as a form of transportation to work , in the context of creating a new culture for urban mobillity, based on an example of three IT companies located in Gdansk
PublicationCelem artykułu jest wskazanie relacji między kulturą organizacyjną pracodawcy a wyborami transportowymi pracowników. Prowadzone w artykule rozważania odwołują się do modelu kultury organizacyjnej E. Scheina, w którym według kryterium postrzegania przez postronnego obserwatora wyróżnione zostały trzy poziomy: artefakty, wartości i założenia. Przeprowadzone w trzech firmach badania ankietowe, wsparte informacjami z wywiadów osobistych, dowodzą,...
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Can the Pandemic Be a Catalyst of Spatial Changes Leading Towards the Smart City?
PublicationThe worldwide spread of Covid‐19 infections has had a pervasive influence on cities and the lives of their residents. The current crisis has highlighted many urban problems, including those related to the functionality of urban structures, which directly affect the quality of life. Concurrently, the notion of “smart cities” is becoming a dominant trend in the discourse on urban development. At the intersection of these two phenomena,...
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Transforming the Gdansk Bay Area
PublicationThe political transformation of Poland in the early nineties from a centrally steered economy to a free market economy entailed changes of the spatial planning system. The impact of these changes on the spatial transformations and current shape of urban structures in the Gdansk Bay Metropolitan Area is apparent and significant. The paper concentrates on the present spatial phenomena of Gdansk Agglomeration resulting from the main...
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Uptake, accumulation, and translocation of Zn, Cu, Pb, Cd, Ni, and Cr by P. australis seedlings in an urban dredged sediment mesocosm: Impact of seedling origin and initial trace metal content
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Energy recovery effectiveness in trolleybus transport
PublicationNowadays the issue of electric energy saving in public transport is becoming a key area of interest whichis connected both with a growth in environmental awareness of the society and an increase in the pricesof fuel and electricity. One of the possibilities to reduce energy consumption in urban public transport isto increase the extent of regenerative braking energy utilization. This can be achieved by its accumulationin the supercapacitors...