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Among the main environmental problems of Russia, the problem of wastewater treatment and the problem of accumulation of solid municipal wastes are currently highlighted. In these conditions, it becomes fundamentally important to introduce environmental management directly in the places of waste and waste water generation, in particular at the objects of housing and communal services. The article considers the prospects of office greening as the smallest unit of housing and communal services, amenable to direct man...

The subject undertaken in the article is poorly researched so far, and at the same time very current, because it concerns the space management strategy in large European cities in the aspect of sustainable spatial development policy. It concerns certain type of Space Left Over After Planning ? areas under elevated infrastructure (bridges, viaducts and flyovers). Underspaces either mostly remain undeveloped for long time or are intended for parking lots or technical facilities. Lack of inadequate management and neg...

This paper presents several issues regarding the dynamic behaviour of the pedestrian footbridges structure under the action of general loads generated by the pedestrians? displacement, together with the correlated traffic comfort of the pedestrians crossing the structure. The footbridge crossing comfort criterion requires the inclusion of vibration frequencies and accelerations of the structures in certain limits so that the vibration amplification or resonance is avoided. The paper puts under investigation six fo...

Many cities in Slovakia are built alongside rivers and the socioeconomic use of rivers is reflected in their urban fabric. Rivers, as sources of water, energy and as sewage effluents, have been used for production purposes and have been surrounded by industrial areas, which today often lose their functions. Brownfields, abandoned and derelict, unused and underused sites along the watercourses, become today areas of urban revitalization and redevelopment. We have explored the spatial, architectural and urban planni...

Cultural buildings constitute a measure of attractiveness and potential in terms of tourism, as well as concerning being places of residence in European cities. When discussing the material value of cultural buildings we can assume that modern buildings, similarly to the greatest historical monuments of cities, can charm and delight visitors, in addition to constituting a driving force behind the economy. The perfect research criterion concerning the role of cultural buildings in the city, however, are the intangi...

Graphic signs and fragments of images on the walls of megalithic buildings and individual stone blocks are not so common. However, their presence greatly enhances the value of ancient monuments of material culture in order to understand the way of thinking of ancient people much better. Portugal is a land where the density of megalithic monuments identified is one of the largest in Europe, but in Portugal itself, in the environs of Evora and Elva the number of such monuments is one of the largest. One of the most ...

In the last few years, the world of Internet communications as well the application?s requirements has changed significantly in terms of speed, quality of service, computing, storing, security, energy consumption, availability, and etc. Everything gets connected to the Internet and accessible from anywhere, anytime. The traditional networks based on distributed control and network transport protocols are not enough flexible, and are hard to be managed. To overwhelm this problem, the software defined networking (SD...

Nowadays, with the increasing construction of buildings, we can increasingly encounter ventilated facades. These structures gain space thanks to new anchoring materials and methods, but also their wide application in terms of architectural requirements. They also improve the thermal properties of the outer walls. The air gap layer helps with the continuous removal of moisture from the structure. And last but not least, the structure of ventilated facades very effectively contributes to increased noise protection. ...

?Dimensioning all the elements in the urban layout should not be executed in any other way but that which is in accordance with human scale? [1], [2]. Evolution of the development of towns and cities resulted in the development of various models of spatial layout and the relations between urban units and human beings. Ancient and medieval towns demonstrated compact spatial arrangement, which resulted in generating shorter journeys and provision of security for the inhabitants. However, the very dense network of st...

In the last time developments in technological field have happened in a pretty rapid tempo, humanity having actually over the years the conviction that these developments will have only positive desired effects. Without any doubt this progress has assured in the past the increase of humanity quality of life by using technologies for different specific human activities. Anyway 1972 after publishing the first report to the Club of Rome ?The Limits to Growth? it was finally understood that besides wanted effects of t...

The article discusses issues related climate change and its influence on development strategies, as well as the resultant need to implement energy efficient solutions in the process of shaping architectural space. New rules regarding planning and developing architectural spaces require the implementation of environmental protection solutions and strategies that involve the use of construction materials, technologies and concepts that comply with the requirements of sustainable architecture. The article discusses t...

The article examines the process and features of the development of legislation on environmental safety in the States members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). According to the authors, this process is an example of the formation of a unified political and legal system for ensuring environmental safety at the regional level. The long law-making process has allowed the Commonwealth states to provide themselves with the necessary legal framework enabling them to coordinate their actions in the field o...

The analysis of the productive landscape of Poieni and F?r??e?ti villages has been part of an extensive research of the cultural landscape of wooden orthodox churches in the ethnographic area of F?get, in Timi? County, Western part of Romania. The research was developed within the restoration project of the Saint Paraschieva church (1676), part of the national and universal heritage, located in Crivina de Sus village. This work aimed to answer the question ?what are the cultural assets of the Pietroasa commune, an...

The redevelopment of the railway network in Krakow has been ongoing for some years now. Efforts undertaken in order to improve the comfort and quality of travel have an influence on functional and spatial changes in the surroundings of modernised railway stops. The redevelopment of elements of the railway network is essential from the point of view of the possibility of supplementing public transport, in addition to affecting the establishment of new circulation nodes that provide services to a significant number ...

The goal of this paper is to define an answer to the question how to design public green areas around multi-family residential buildings and what is their role in the spatial structure of the city. Big cities struggle with the problem of an insufficient share of green areas. Actions are being undertaken in order to introduce green areas in spaces with a high floor area ratio. A good example in this respect is Cracow, where in recent years a project of organising a number of pocket parks has been implemented. Simul...

Architectural styles had a cyclic pattern throughout the history of humanity, however their recurrence was intentional, educated, having more to do with the taste of a society or a group of individuals than with their basic needs. Vernacular architecture emerged as a response to the needs of people and was a collective product, not the masterpiece of an architect. It emerged from the local building techniques and construction material availability, as well as climatic, economic and socio-politic conditions. Underg...