RESEARCH ON INFLUENCE OF CHINESE GEOMANTIC CULTURE ON PROPERTY INVESTMENT BEHAVIOR

Geomantic culture, deeply rooted in China's rich traditions, stands out as one of the most captivating and mysterious aspects of the country's heritage. In thousands of years, this enigmatic blend of metaphysics and geomancy has significantly shaped the lives of the Chinese people. Its historical success in predicting and judging risks has made it a valuable tool for investors in the field of real estate. In this case, research on the influence of risks of metaphysics and geomancy becomes necessarily important to facilitate investors to own relatively feasible tools when participating in economic activities. In this dissertation, I collect property transaction data in a district of city of Beijing in China in August 2023, and examine how various geomantic characteristics affect property prices. I identify sixteen indicators of geomantic factors, among which four are variables of community characteristics (location, shape, main entrance and road), four are building characteristics (position, orientation, floor and house number), and eight are internal characteristics of residences (house type, layout, daylighting, ventilation, color scheme, five elements, door and window). Quantification of these 16 characteristic variables can be divided as quantitative quantification and qualitative quantification, and the method to quantify indicators in accordance with the actual situation is an innovative content of indicator quantification of this paper. Employing multiple linear regressions, I find that 10 out of the 16 characteristic variables, including location, shape, main entrance, road, position, orientation, floor, house number, house type, and layout, are significantly related to property prices. I also compare the strength of the effect of each geomantic characteristic variable on property prices through standardized regression. Community location of the property has the greatest influence on prices. a building's position is at the second most important factor. House number and layout seem having the least effect on property transaction prices. My research suggests that homeowners in China care about the geomantic characteristics of their property, hence are willing to pay a higher price for more favorable geomantic characteristics. This study also offers useful guidance for real estate developers how to maximize profits through improving geomantic characteristics of their property development.Global Financ

Biometric authentication using fingerprint and keypad for door lock securtiy system

Biometric lock is a lock that uses fingerprint to grant genuine user an access to a building, offices, and laboratory. The purpose of this project is to solve the major problems faced by the conventional lock or electronic combination lock, by adding electronic technology as well as biological technology together, user is the key to the lock. Users do not have to memorize combination as it is in the electronic combination lock, or carry the key along all the time. However with this device users simply need to place their finger on the fingerprint module and the device itself will determine whether to give or deny the access. This study also has other method which is password by using keypad. This study divided into three parts, which are hardware design, software design, and prototype design. The hardware design includes the electronics circuits used to enrol, identify, and delete fingerprint to the fingerprint module, LCD that gives command to the user. Software design includes the development of the source code that enables the Arduino UNO to control and interface with all hardware. The operation of the hardware, software and prototype design parts have been tested and verified individually and in combination. It simply performs three functions which are addition, verification, and deletion

The stigma effect of innatural deaths on nearby property values

Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-110).published_or_final_versio

Historical Ecology, Archaeology and Biocultural Landscapes: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Long Anthropocene

This book collects a series of interdisciplinary contributions about Historical Ecology, Archeology and Biocultural Landscapes focused on the analysis of landscape dynamics during the Long Anthropocene. Through case studies across Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and America, the volume offers a series of examples of approaches and applications to combine and stimulate an interdisciplinary debate between Natural Science and Humanities for understanding long-term human–environment interaction and historical sustainability

A RESEARCH ON CHINESE TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE IMAGE

Chinese traditional architectural culture is a concernful component in the national cultural heritage, in which the traditional architectural landscape undergoes historical aggradation in hundred and thousand years, becoming corporate works of traditonal culture and nature which is the most research content of Chinese architectural history and modern cultural landscape research. The landscape image is formed by the abstractive cognition to the concrete environmental which fused of the common cultural characteristics of ‘image thinking’ and idea in landscape forming and cultural significance in perception and assessment. It is a concernful vector which reflects the unique traditional landscape culture. Therefore, to study the traditional architectural landscape image is an approach of research on the cultural inheritance and development, especially in cultural landscape horizon, is a important content in research system of landscape cultural synthesis. It takes the traditional architectural landscape image to be research object. Through the analysis on the thinking process of constitutive and perceived landscape. The idiosyncracy of significance is formed by the image counsciousness and implication perception. The idiosyncracy of image is formed by the imaginary image with cultural characteristics and derivative objective image.It forms a research structure of landscape image and analyzes the characteristics in uesd of the compared qualitative methods in multiple dimensions and landscape assessment qualitative methods. It purposes to analyze the cultural consciousness basis, the thought medium of landscape archetype and archetypal image, the association of cultural coding and decoding in implication perception.It reflects the time-space characteristics and interprets the thought characteristics of landscape image. It uses the archetypal theory of Carl jung and “image thinking” as the theories of the research on the thought characteristics of tectonic landscape consciousness and concept of images. Through the analysis of the tectonic landscape thought, it forms the construction of landscape consciousness and analyzes the landscape analogue image thinking of psychology, demands and experience together with the multi-element composite and diffusion derivative aspects. It proposes two landscape archetypes which forms imagination, discusses the landscape thought in traditional culture of classify imagination and typical archetypal image and space configuration of set integration. It purposes to interpret the cognitive law of consciousness and idea. According to the point of the imagination presented by substance, it analyzes the space derivation and momentums characterization which attempts to form a connected research system of consciousness, imagination and objective image.Based on the space types and the typical landscape instance, it extracts the space cognitive image elements from the cognitive image schema by the methods of urban image analysis, Kevin lynch. It analyzes the space configuration of cognitive elements and its logical relationship with tectonic landscape concept. It interprets the characterization of space types and cultural communication which is a research transformation from tectonic landscape image to perceived landscape image. The implication forms based on the space cultural communication so that it analyzes the hierarchical contents, the perceived behavior and cognitive psychology of implication perceived structure. It puts forward an assessment system of perceived image by the mediums of implication perceived factors. It analyzes the property categorys of perceived factors in used of its relations in subjective perception by the methods of questionnaire and software to structure the assessment model of perceived image based on the specific cultural landscape. It interprets the correlation of the tectonic and perceived landscape image which reflects the cultural inheritance and revelatory effect of traditional architectural landscape image. To sum up, a series of issue about the traditional architectural landscape image is explained in new point of view by the cross study including Chinese traditional thought ways, western psychology and landscape assessment. A new study frame of landscape image is constructed by the landscape cultural property and image thought. It analyzes the characteristics of cultural inheritance together with consciousness construction, imaginary characteristics, objective characteristics and implication perceived along with time, space, tectonic in the past and perceived now which attamps to creat a new field with multi-subject of landscape cultural values. It is a further study of Chinese architectural history and a supplement and enrichment of cultural landscape

Social-ecological Memory in Koreas Traditional Village Landscapes: Ethnographic and Spatial Approaches

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 환경대학원 : 환경계획학과, 2016. 8. 이도원.In nurturing resilience in social-ecological systems (SESs), memories of ecosystem stewardship practices that are retained by actors of SESs—referred to as social-ecological memories (SEMs)—play vital roles, particularly relevant in the face of change. This dissertation investigates the ways in which SEM is created, mobilized, and manifested to cope with disturbances and changes by employing various social and ecological resources while maintaining the systems identity, also referred to as resilience. It proposes SEM as a person-practice-place complex with crucial individual components. In other words, SEM that nurtures social-ecological resilience involves (1) memory carriers as the primary agents of SEM (person)(2) ecosystem stewardship practices based on local observations and experiential knowledge that has undergone a learning-by-doing process (practice)and (3) physical sites in which the person has experienced and learned through practice about ecosystem management, complex systems thinking, and the link between nature and humans. In this regard, this dissertation explores the characteristics of each indicator of SEM with individual cases concerning Koreas traditional village landscape (KTVL) and highlights their implications in the context of social-ecological resilience. Landscape here is understood as a unit of SES that is significant for its adaptive qualities. This adaptation is a feedback loop comprising the potential of the land and the ways in which humans make a living from it based on their knowledge systems and cosmologies. Additionally, I focus on traditional ecological knowledge as a type of SEM that has undergone vigorous trial-and-error over time, because in certain circumstances there is a reluctance to innovate and adapt in the face of change within an SES. In studying SES concerning KTVL, I use both autobiographical and historical memories as sources for analyzing the SEM. For instance, in Chapter Three, I use Park Wan-suhs novel Who Ate Up All the Shinga? as an example of autobiographical memory to analyze aspects of ecoliteracy and place attachment as reflected in SEM. Ecoliteracy is defined as ecological knowledge with regard to the names of living and physical components, practices of the resource management system, and landscape management systems. Worldviews and cosmologies that are closed related with person-place attachment are also delineated. These observations exemplify how memories of person-practice and person-place interactions are manifested in forms of ecoliteracy and place attachment. The study also shows how SES in relation to KTVL is highly influenced by village landscape management practices within a watershed. In Chapter Four, I explore the role of SEM in fostering the adaptive capacity of a community through its synergy with other sources of resilience such as leadership, and with cross-scale and cross-level interactions. The result of ethnographic study conduced in a rural area in South Korea indicates that SEM concerning village landscape configuration is reinforced through land use changes and scale-related issues brought about by top-down policy processes. Although the evidence used here focuses on villagers attempts to cope with flood damages, it demonstrates the importance of SEM in allowing for community-based resilience practices. In Chapter Five, I draw on historical records as types of historical memory to define the social-ecological identity of KTVL with emphasis on Koreas traditional village grove and to assess the current spatial identity of the landscape. With the analyzed spatial identity, I was able to locate potential traditional village grove sites in KTVLs that are not in the current governmental data. Although cognitive dimensions of SEM highlight the place-based values of physical environments, based on an SES framework, this dissertation claims that person-practice-place dynamics are also manifested through the spatial characteristics and spatial resilience of a place. It concludes that person-practice-place interactions are central to SEM, which plays a critical role in allowing for ecosystem stewardship in various regions. Institutions to support SEM-based stewardship activities and conservation strategies to protect physical sites in which SEM is accumulated and stored are needed for the maintenance, transmission, and mobilization of sources of resilience.CHAPTER ONE: Linking People with Ecosystem Stewardship Practice and Cultural Landscape 5 CHAPTER TWO: Theoretical Emergence 19 CHAPTER THREE: Autobiographical Social-ecological Memory 35 CHAPTER FOUR: Social-ecological Memory and Adaptive Capacity 50 CHAPTER FIVE: Identity of Korea's Traditional Village Landscape 69 CHAPTER SIX: Toward Better Landscape Stewardship 87 요약(국문초록) 95 REFERENCES 97Docto

Research on the Wind Environment of Multi-patio Traditional Dwellings in Fuzhou

传统民居是我国建筑体系中一个重要的组成部分，是在我国古代“天人合一”哲学思想影响下形成的产物。由于我国幅员辽阔，在不同的气候和地理分区会形成风格迥异的民居类型，具体的民居类型如陕北的窑洞，闽南的土楼，广东的骑楼，北京的四合院等，这些民居在建筑形式，建筑材料和建造工艺上都不尽相同。近些年来，随着建筑与生态、能源技术的结合越来越紧密，不少学者也开始运用现代的研究方法去解读传统民居，并去重新认识和继承传统民居中所蕴含的生态智慧。其中合理的自然通风设计就是传统民居在气候适应性方面的表现，本文正是以此为研究核心展开研究。 本文以福州“多进天井式”民居为研究对象，先从风水理论的角度和现代通风理论的角度讨...Chinese traditional dwellings are an important part of our country's architectural system. It is the product formed under the influence of the philosophical thought of ancient Chinese "unity of heaven and man". Due to the vast territory of China, in different climate and geographical division formed the east, west, south and north different styles of dwelling types, such as Shanxi cave, Fujian Ear...学位：建筑学硕士院系专业：建筑与土木工程学院_建筑历史与理论学号：2522014115173

A culture of conservation: How an ancient forest plantation turned into an old-growth forest reserve – The story of the Wamulin forest

The global expansion of forest plantations at the expense of natural forests, especially old-growth forests, raises concerns about habitat loss and a decline in ecosystem services. Natural regeneration of second-growth forests with minimal human assistance has been suggested as a cost-effective way to restore forests and increase forest ecosystem service potential. However, it is unclear whether natural regeneration will lead to the development of second-growth forests similar to natural forests because most naturally regenerated second-growth forests are still young. We present a case study of a very old second-growth forest in southeastern China in which a forest plantation established approximately six centuries ago has now developed into an old forest with extraordinary high biodiversity levels, an immense carbon pool, and a rich culture. The forest was established in the 14th century because of a charitable contribution, became protected under the Chinese cultural norm of ‘unity between humans and the nature’, and was conserved because of the belief that the prosperity of people is closely linked to the prosperity of trees. The recent designation of the forest as a nature reserve further protects it from development despite competing land-use demands related to recent economic growth. This case illustrates that, although human activity is the main cause for the disappearance and degradation of many forests, when human interests and cultural values align second-growth restoration and subsequent forest conservation can lead to the successional development of old-growth forests. Because this development takes multiple centuries, the protection of current second-growth forests within conservation easements (e.g. nature reserves) and the reformation of culture values for the linkage of forests to human well-being are key aspects of the continued conservation-aided succession of second-growth forests. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article