ENHANCING PEDESTRIAN SAFETY TO IMPROVE URBANHEALTH

Walking is such an essential human activity and it is a part of every trip. Whatever the main purpose for travel, walking will remain the first and last mode used; no doubt there is a link between walking, urban health, and pedestrian safety. Unfortunately, safe walking has been ignored in the mission of planning for many transportation systems in the cities. The number of individuals killed or seriously injured on Arab cities’ road’s network has significantly increased the late decades. Nonetheless, there has been no meaningful change in the pedestrian facilities throughout the most recent ten years. There are numerous factors that affect and cause this numbers. And the main problem is the Lack of an initiative to decrease pedestrian risks and improve their safety. This research paper will discuss briefly the factors affecting pedestrian’s safety in order to attempt to set some guidelines that will assist in risk reduction, increase the pedestrian safety rates and consequently will improve urban health in Arab communities

ZERO CARBON CITY- MASDAR CITY CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Climate has a direct impact on the performance of buildings and their energy consumption especially in hot arid areas. In these areas, the lack of water and energy sources forces people to build their houses with several strategies, based on minimum energy consumption as using the environment natural climatic strategies for coping with harsh conditions as vernacular architecture. In order to apply and achieve sustainable building in hot and humid climates, efforts must be put into understanding the local climate, and integrating appropriate building technologies into the architectural and urban designs. Today, the continuous progress in technologies offered new means towards achieving comfortable climatic conditions and efficiency in building. But these technologies result in high building costs, maintenance and depletion of renewable resources. The paper aim is to investigate the feasibility of using new technologies as nanotechnology beside other passive design strategies in desert zones .In addition to, assessing their adaption towards the extreme and harsh climatic conditions of the hot arid zones and their efficiency. The paper will illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of applying new technologies and materials to achieve sustainability in hot arid zones through analyzing Masdar City in United Arab of Emirates. The paper suggests that Masdar City still didn’t achieve its goals and failed to be a model of urban environmental sustainability, to be replicated in other countries

DESIGNING NON-STRESSED PSYCHOLOGICAL PUBLIC SPACES

Stress is considered the most nervous impact that affects human life due to pressure from many reasons, one of the external factors is the Built environment. The public space as a surrounding context plays a main effective role in human psychological mood whether negative or positive. The paper aims to evaluate urban public spaces, especially from the users’ activities in relation to stress factors, these applied through public spaces in Tripoli city, Lebanon. The methodology will be through an analytical study using observation and a questionnaire to measure the types of users’ activities in public spaces and their sense of pressure and stress. The results of this study are important to develop a methodology to design non-stressed psychological public spaces

No Exit: An Evening with Annie Mok on Fear, Comics, & Magic

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Catalogue of an exhibition of early English portraits and landscapes lent

Lettered on cover: Founder's day exhibition, MCMXVII.Mode of access: Internet

Walton Ford

Ford (82 FAV) focuses on beauty and brutality in the natural world and spoke about the importance of establishing a strong point of view.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/visitingartistsandspeakers_video/1005/thumbnail.jp

An Inadequate History of the Projected Image

This lecture proposes new readings of the history of the projected image in American art since the 1960s, foregrounding issues around the black cinematic to propose alternative models to the assumptions of whiteness that have dominated the history of moving image art, and challenging the presumed neutrality of cinematic tropes including the camera, the screen, light, the gaze, opacity, and surveillance. Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her specialization is the work of emerging artists, moving image art, and art of the 1960s and 1970s. She has co-curated two Whitney Biennials, and numerous exhibitions of the moving image as well as sculpture, including a retrospective of Dan Graham. Her most recent exhibition, ‘Dreamlands’, explored the role of immersive moving image installations in the history of American art from 1905 to the present. She is responsible for building the moving image part of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection. She is a member of the Graduate Committee of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and a visiting professor in the Art Department at Columbia University. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Art History Department at Bristol University, England, in 2015. This lecture is co-sponsored by the department of Film, Animation and Video.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/havc_conversationsoncontemporaryart/1004/thumbnail.jp

Go, Dog. Go! (2015-02)

This is a collaboration between UMD Department of Theatre and UMD Department of Art and Design, done as a class project by students in Alison Aune's Art in Elementary Education classes. PLUS... our UMD Bulldog mascot Champ joins in the FUN!UMD School of Fine Arts, UMD Department of Theater, UMD Department of Ar