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Spatial aspects of urban air quality management: Estimating the impact of micro-scale urban form on pollution dispersion
PublicationUrban planning and design solutions affect urban ventilation conditions, thus mitigating the effects of atmospheric pollution. However, these findings are not being implemented in the planning practice to a sufficient extent, partly due to the lack of specific guidelines. Moreover, many urban air quality monitoring (AQM) sites have low represnentativeness and thus do not provide comprehensive data for effective urban air pollution control...
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Management of Urban Waters with Nature-Based Solutions in Circular Cities—Exemplified through Seven Urban Circularity Challenges
PublicationNature-Based Solutions (NBS) have been proven to effectively mitigate and solve resource depletion and climate-related challenges in urban areas. The COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA17133 entitled “Implementing nature-based solutions (NBS) for building a resourceful circular city” has established seven urban circularity challenges (UCC) that can be addressed effectively with NBS. This paper presents the outcomes...
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Meeting Modernisms in Gdynia
PublicationThe paper focused on the architectural heritage of the city of Gdynia, in Poland, built in 1920s and 1930s. The city was established (founded) on the seaside of the Baltic Sea as the only port of Poland – a country that regained independence after Versailles Treaty. The history of the city, built from scratch is outstanding in Europe. Modernist architecture of the city is represented by buildings built for different purposes: housing,...
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Hanna Obracht-Prondzyńska dr inż. arch.
PeopleHanna Obracht-Prondzyńska, PhD MArch, Eng. Assistant Professor at the University of Gdańsk, Department of Spatial Management, academic teacher of urban design and spatial data analyses. Architect and urban planner experienced in data driven urban design and planning. She defended her PhD with distinction in engineering and technical sciences in the discipline of architecture and urban planning in 2020 at the Faculty of Architecture...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 1, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 1, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 2, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 2, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 4, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 4, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 3, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 3, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 5, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 5, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district case study, study proposal no 6, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district, study proposal no 6, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Lower Sopot (Dolny Sopot) district in the...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no 2, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 2, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no 3, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 3, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district...
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Functional and spatial structure analysis – Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district case study, study proposal no1, February 2021
Open Research DataThe data presents results of work within the studies of the conditions of the district in the context of the city, Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district, study proposal no 1, from February 2021. The goal of the research process was to present the functional and spatial structure analysis of the area located in Gdańsk-Lower City (Dolne Miasto) district...
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Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) annual conference
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The Impact of Contemporary Technology on Shell Structures: Material and Light Solutions
PublicationWith the development of technology and the materials used, shell structures have developed into more complex forms. This article is a comparison between contemporary and historical shell structures. The change is an effect of the evolution in the design process that is the result of parametric design thinking. The study aims to investigate the impact of new technologies on the architectural form of shell structures. Was there any...
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Tumu Jianzhu yu Huanjing Gongcheng/Journal of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
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Niechciany ''Pomost'' jako świadek destrukcji tkanki architektonicznej w Parku Nadmorskim w Sopocie = The unwanted ''Walking Overpass'' as the Witness to the destruction pf architectural tissue in the Seaside Park in Sopot
PublicationW referacie zawarta jest refleksja nad bezkarnym działaniem niszczycielskim w najdelikatniejszej strukturze krajobrazu miasta nadmorskiego. Krajobrazu ani jego dobrej pierwotnej tkanki nie da się odtworzyć tak szybko jak się ją niszczyło. W efekcie zapomnieliśmy, że piękno spaceru w Parku Nadmorskim jest wspólnym dobrem.
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Towards Carbon Neutral Settlements. The Importance of Early-Stage Urban and Energetic Optimizations
PublicationThe aim of the research was to verify the essence of interdisciplinary energy optimizations in earlystage urban design process. A further aim was to the find most optimal design variant and scenario in terms of urban energy efficiency for the future development in Nowy Port, located in Gdansk, Poland - a place requiring complex revitalization. The research combined qualitative and quantitative approaches; an urban design layer...
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Accelerated design optimization of miniaturized microwave passives by design reusing and Kriging interpolation surrogates
PublicationElectromagnetic (EM) analysis has become ubiquitous in the design of microwave components and systems. One of the reasons is the increasing topological complexity of the circuits. Their reliable evaluation—at least at the design closure stage—can no longer be carried out using analytical or equivalent network representations. This is especially pertinent to miniaturized structures, where considerable EM cross-coupling effects occurring...
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Towards defragmented Lighting Design: concatenating research theories for effective use in design practices.
PublicationThis paper aims to provide guidelines for transferring design research to practice in the realm of lighting. It is based on the premise that design research in lighting should function as a development of practice, instead of being a distraction to it. Design research refers to the scholarly inquiry that seeks to advance design by studying and improving it in systematic and scientific ways by expanding, testing and operationalizing...
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Enhancing human performance in ship operations by modifying global design factors at the design stage
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20232024_Elective design II_CULTURAL HERITAGE ROUTES_Gdańsk Measuring the city, advanced digital surveying techniques for cultural heritage documentation
e-Learning CoursesCultural Heritage Routes – Gdańsk. This course explores challenges, conflicts and concepts of cultural heritage preservation and protection at urban level, their connection to architectural and urban design in the time of digitalisation and their importance for a future of the cities. The aim of this course, based on the case study city of Gdańsk, is to understand the problem of cultural heritage and develop innovative...
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20232024_Elective design II_CULTURAL HERITAGE ROUTES_Gdańsk Drawing architecture to understand the city
e-Learning CoursesCultural Heritage Routes – Gdańsk. This course explores challenges, conflicts and concepts of cultural heritage preservation and protection at urban level, their connection to architectural and urban design in the time of digitalisation and their importance for a future of the cities. The aim of this course, based on the case study city of Gdańsk, is to understand the problem of cultural heritage and develop innovative...
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Variability of relationship between cities and nature in landscape architecture= Zmienność relacji miedzy miastem a naturą na przykładzie architektury krajobrazu miast
PublicationInterpreting and creating the relations between nature and city are the process of learning which is a subject of permanent conceptualization. It is characterized by the culutrality due to human nature and own ability to perceive oneself in the context of the relationship between own environmental and cultural nature. The way of interpreting the nature and providing it with different features affected significantly the development...
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Architektura kontrastu w historycznych miastach Europejskich na przykładzie obiektów użyteczności publicznej z przełomu XX i XXI wieku
PublicationPowstawanie obiektów na wskroś współczesnych na styku z historyczną tkanką miejską może stanowić drogę do odnowy i rewitalizacji obszarów, które tego wymagają. Działanie takie może również być silnym i cennym katalizatorem transformacji funkcjonalnej i wizualnej danego fragmentu przestrzeni miejskiej oraz przyczyniać się do wzrostu aktywności społecznej w jej obrębie. Tworzywem architektonicznym dającym ogromne możliwości kontrastowania...
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state aid for sustainable urban development
Open Research DataThe dataset encompassed a choice of important legal acts with respect on the usage of EFRD for urban projects, a list of selected bibliography as well as a list of selected individual notifications of state aid measures being part of the Sustainable Urban Development Programme in the period 2014- 2020. As a comparison, an example of individual EC decision...
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Environmental Principles of Architectural & Urban Design 2023/2024
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The Impact of Weather on Traffic Speed in Urban Area
PublicationThe issue of the impact of weather conditions on trip speed of vehicles has been studied for a long time and it is still the subject of many scientific researches. The impact of atmospheric conditions on the speed with which drivers drive their vehicles seems to be obvious. Good weather conditions, sunny weather with good visibility surely provokes higher speed while rainfall, wind...
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Poroelastic Material for Urban Roads Wearing Courses
PublicationConventional road materials used for producing wearing courses of roads are based on mineral aggregate and bituminous or Portland cement binders. The road materials must be optimized for different properties, including skid resistance, durability, rolling resistance and tire/road noise. Unfortunately, it seems that within classic technologies it is very difficult to achieve further reduction of tire/road noise. Innovative porous...
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PERS - QUIET ROAD SURFACE FOR URBAN AREAS
PublicationTraffic noise is one of the most important environmental problems in densely populated urban areas. At low speeds the tyre/road interaction dominates all other sources. It is anticipated that when electric and hybrid vehicles gain dominance in city traffic, the importance of tyre/road noise will still increase as electric engines are much less noisy than combustion engines. On the other hand, electric and hybrid urban vehicles...
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Impact of deep excavation on nearby urban area
PublicationObciążenia i odciążenia gruntu wywołane są wykonaniem i obciążeniem konstrukcji. Wpływ technologii wykonawstwa powiązany jest z metodami wykonawstwa budowli i zależy od: rodzaju ścianki, sposobu jej wykonania, sztywności ścianki, sposobu obniżenia zwierciadła wody, drgań wywołanych wprowadzeniem ścianki i innych. Podano przykłady wykonania głębokich wykopów za pomocą ścianek stalowych i palisad w miejscach zurbanizowanych i różnych...
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Visual Traffic Noise Monitoring in Urban Areas
PublicationThe paper presents an advanced system for railway and road traffic noise monitoring in metropolitan areas. This system is a functional part of a more complex solution designed for environmental monitoring in cities utilizing analyses of sound, vision and air pollution, based on a ubiquitous computing approach. The system consists of many autonomous, universal measuring units and a multimedia server, which gathers, processes and...
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Instruments shaping sustainable mobility of urban residents
PublicationUrban development increases the demand for efficient, fast, safe ecological transport. Extensive development of urban transport system, in particular transport infrastructure, changed the point of view about transport needs. Research on the effectiveness of transport systems for years accompanied the study of mobility. The development of modern technology, the need to increase efficiency of transport and increase environmental...
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Definition of urban regeneration projects in Russian cities
PublicationUrban regeneration is extremely important process for Russian cities, which faced to the challenges of post-industrial economy. In an attempt, to explain needs of urban regeneration in Russian megacities author analyzed the social and economic trends and some historic features of Russian cities development. The article identified the key areas for regeneration such as the regeneration of historic core, the regeneration of the urban...
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The Indication Methods and Techniques of Urban Light Pollution
PublicationThe goal of this study is to review and categorize approaches and methods of facing urban light pollution. Probing various references and documents, the current practice focus on extracting and reviewing different types of urban light pollution detection, survey, and measurement to define a taxonomy of methods by instant comparison. The means of measurement and detecting this pollution include 14 most cited techniques that have...
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Development of the urban rail vehicle acoustic model
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Similar concentration of surfactants in rural and urban areas
PublicationSince surfactants are used in various products, they end up in surface and wastewater. Surfactants may therefore impact ecosystems and living organisms. Actually, only few anionic surfactants and some alkylphenols are regulated. There is no comprehensive evaluation of surfactants in the atmosphere, surfaces and waters of areas of increasing anthropic levels. Here, we measured the levels of cationic, anionic and nonionic surfactants...
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Online urban acoustic noise monitoring system
PublicationConcepts and implementation of the Online Urban Noise Monitoring System are presented. Principles of proposed solution used for dynamic acoustical maps creating are discussed. The architecture of the system and the data acquisition scheme are described. The concept of noise mapping, based on noise source model and propagation simulations, was developed and employed in the system. Dynamic estimation of noise source parameters utilized...
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Early urban water management of Gdansk, Poland
PublicationWczesna gospodarka wodą w Gdańsku, warunki powstania, znaczenie historyczne. Rozwój wodociągów i kanalizacji w mieście. Aktualne warunki rozwoju, specyfika Gdańska.
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Urban development and regeneration in Poland - contemporary issues
PublicationArtykuł obejmuje skrótowe omówienie współczesnych procesów rozwoju i rewitalizacji miast w Polsce. Zaprezentowano w nim zarówno procesy planowe jak i zachodzące spontanicznie, a także typologie obszarów poddawanym współczesnym procesom przekształceń
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Sources of investment risk in urban regeneration projects
PublicationThe scope of the article includes multidimensional risk analysis of urban regeneration projects, whose base is to identify areas of its occurrence. Authors thoroughly analyze the sources of potential threats and attempts to answer the question, what is their contribution into overall urban regeneration’ investment risk. The target concept will be used to assess the level of investment risk at the stage of initiation, preparation...
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The health impact of urban parks along waterways
PublicationWell designed parks along waterways could promote health and well-being of local inhabitants. The way the human settlements meet water bodies can influence the habits of local population. How people spend their time have significant impact on their health. For example, a team of Japanese scientists has proven that a well designed walk-able green spaces are crucial for the longevity of elderly citizens (Takano T. et al, 2002). Nature...
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Potentials of Water Usage in urban Neighbourhood Structures
PublicationThis paper will treat about water influence and possibility of its usage in the urban neighborhood structures (e.g. districts, real estate properties, town parts) in the context of actual regional environmental problems and according to directories determined by European targets. It is not rare yet in the basic stage of urban design that water is treated as a threat, not a chance. In result planned structures are often built,...
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Places of worship, spiritual healing and urban regeneration
PublicationMany researchers demonstrated that it is possible to help people achieve mental and physical regeneration with proper architecture, urban and landscape planning. The term therapeutic landscapes could also be applied to places of worship, where people gather for spiritual healing and renewal. Public space that they offer is inclusively open to all. Addition- ally, they serve to reinvigorate the places where they are located. Shrines...
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Urban dew formation efficiency and chemistry in Poland
PublicationThe measurements of dew formation efficiency and chemistry were performed in Poland in September 2009, as a part of a longer, two-year sampling campaign. Pairs of sites, representing centers of major Polish cities and rural conditions in three different regions, were compared. With the aim to get more detailed landuse-oriented characteristics of dew, two additional sites were set close to Wroclaw. Collection of dew at each site...
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Recommendations for Urban Freight Policy Development in Gdynia
PublicationThe purpose of this paper was to provide practical recommendations on how to develop Gdynia’s urban freight policy based on actual planning experience and characteristics of potential measures. Freight policy scheme was developed as a result of three interrelated factors: a) the general procedure of the urban freight planning, b) the city's current planning stage analysis and, c) characteristics of urban freight objectives and...
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Contemporary Development Processes of Cities and Urban Areas
PublicationThe article deals with contemporary transformation of urban structures with special focus on Polish cities. The special attention is given to issues associated with re-urbanization and suburbanization of these within the framwork of principles of sustainable urban development
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Evaluation of urban freight transport management measures
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Inicjatywa Wspólnotowa URBAN a rewitalizacja miasta europejskiego
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Smart Urban Growth - Myth or New Paradigm?
PublicationArtykuł prezentuje wizję 'smart growth' na przykładzie miast regionu morza Bałtyckiego.