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Follow Elizabeth and her family through this family oriented video series which highlights topics such as preparing for a hurricane, how to help those affected by a storm and raises awareness for mental health after a natural disaster. Nexus Maximus IV The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding safety and a better tomorrow. The impact of war, political, racial and religious conflict, and environmental crises of famine and climate change, have caused great suffering and there is a great opportunity to do better. The issues these populations and the countries who receive them face are diverse and complex. They include public health, housing/built environment, cultural integration, public safety, employment/economic and more. How can innovation address these challenges? How do we create the social systems and products to support a healthy, safe and integrated program for refugees? How do we address the physical, emotional, and social needs of refugees to restore hope and opportunity? The solutions may be as far ranging as the challenges, exploring the acute needs during a crisis, as well as the chronic needs of the permanently displaced; looking at immigration and adjustments to new cultures. We encourage participants to draw upon all disciplines, from health professions to architecture, engineering to design, ethics, communication and every way of thinking we have, to find better ways to innovate on physical solutions, processes, policies, systems, and more. Recap of poster presentationshttps://jdc.jefferson.edu/nexusmaximus/1015/thumbnail.jp

An Emergency Report for Bangor, Maine (article from Landscape Architecture)

Article focuses on the damage and planned recovery from the April 30, 1911, fire in Downtown Bangor. Article written by Fletcher Steele, one of the architects tasked with the post-fire recovery. Opening paragraph: Among the interesting reports that have been prepared on the subject of Civic Improvements during the last few years, the recommendations that were made for Bangor, Maine, are unique. On April 30, 1911, fifty-five acres, extending from the heart of the business district nearly to the outskirts of the city through a good residence district, was devastated by fire. One hundred business blocks, two hundred and eighty-five dwellings, the Library, High School, seven churches, and many magnificent trees, were swept away.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1240/thumbnail.jp

The University of Texas at Austin Landscape Master Plan & Design Guidelines

The Landscape Master Plan is intended to encourage unity in the design of the campus landscape over time, so that the individually designed parts of the landscape relate properly to one another, regardless of when they are built. This document’s audience includes University staff, administrators and consultants employed to design the campus landscape. The Landscape Master Plan aligns with the Operational Recommendations of the Commission of 125, which calls for the coordination of facilities planning to maintain a “superior campus environment” that assists in the recruitment and retention of a talented faculty, and improves the student experience. The need for the Landscape Master Plan, its relationship to other campus plans, the planning process and relevant background information is explained in Section 1. Section 2 consists of a summary of Existing Conditions, and Sections 3, 4 and 5 include the Landscape Master Plan recommendations. Section 3 presents recommendations related to the overall structure of the campus landscape and guidelines related to the different landscape AREAS (Civic Landscapes, Streetscapes, Parklands, Connective Landscapes, Courtyards, Service Spaces, and Waller Creek) of the campus. Section 4 presents guidelines related to the various SYSTEMS of the campus landscape, and Section 5 presents recommended POLICIES to guide implementation of the campus landscapeWaller Creek Working Grou

09:03 a dozen years to make a state go virtual : LIDAR data use for 3D visualisation of the Maltese Islands

Creating a new modus operandi for 3D data analysis that covers an entire state is a endearing task which required considerable funding and the integration of various thematic domains that lent an operational hand to spatial analysis in the Maltese state. An ERDF project taken up in Malta saw the integration of various environmental themes together with the creation of baseline surveys that serve the state as a launching pad for strategic analytical processes. The Malta study comprises the 3D component of the project which enabled the seamless integration of Terrestrial LiDAR, bathymetric LiDAR and bathymetric acoustic scans up to one nautical mile from the baseline coast, The aim of this process was to ensure that the integration of the datasets conformed to the requirements of the EEA (European Environment Agency) dataflow process (2012), the INSPIRE Directive (OJ, 2007), the Aarhus Convention (OJ, 2003a), the Freedom of Information Act (OJ, 2003b) and the Public Sector Information Directive (2003c). In addition, this project aimed to be the first to test the Shared Environment Information System (FORMOSA, SCIBERRAS, FORMOSA PACE, 2013; BORG, FARRUGIA, 2010).peer-reviewe

Maltese criminological landscapes : a spatio-temporal case : where physical and social worlds meet

Landscapes have taken many forms in the real and virtual worlds, placing more emphasis on the geographical perspective, sometimes at the risk of losing the spatio-social perspective. Studying thematic issues divorced from the locations they occur in results in a sterile outcome, since each activity has a time and space imperative attached to it. In his analysis of the morphology of landscapes, SAUER’S (1925) early assertion held true that geography without a substantive content remained an abstract relationship; with the essential content being the socio-cultural landscape (HIRSCHFIELD ET AL, 2001). This paper integrates both spatial and temporal crime, whilst linking crime statistics to such information layers as development and urban use, and zoning activities in a Maltese context.peer-reviewe

Soaring spaces : the development of an integrated terrestrial and bathymetric information system for the Maltese Islands

In a rapidly developing world where the introduction of massive online information systems has enabled both the scientist and the general public to interact with remotely- located data from across the globe, the reality of access to data and eventually to information is slowly bringing forth the realisation that decades-old barriers to access to data still need to be overcome. Data availability suffers from a plethora of scourges that have left entire countries with a dearth of reliable baseline information, particularly small states which have limited human capacity to manage the whole datacycle in the physical, social and environmental domains. The main limitations include the fact that there are few homogeneous structures in operation, which governance situation has rendered data gathering agencies as a series of independent hoarding kingdoms, where data ‘ownership’ is seen as a private not as a corporate or a national affair thus the main users instead of being custodians transform themselves as the private owners of such data. Other more technical issues include the fact that there are too many standards to follow, data is not dynamic (gathered ad hoc as a one-off and not real-time), data is not quality assured/controlled, queries are not organised and recorded, data is not secured – (‘illegal’ use of storage on personal storage devices and other digital media) and that versioning is not practiced. In addition, even where the data is available, there is an upsurge in requests for access to such data which has increased drastically since TIM BERNERS-LEE’S (1989) world wide web (WWW) proposal changed society as never before. The WWW changed a medium that was at best techno-centric to one that is now essentially socio-technic. Increasing requirements for bandwidth has resulted in a need for a reanalysis of DAHRENDORFF’s (1990) access issue in contemporary worlds, both real and virtual, where not all society has access to the information through on-line services.peer-reviewe

Bulletin 22A: Papers in viticulture and Bulletin 22B: Papers in winemaking and wine evaluation

2 volume set, Papers in viticulture Bulletin 22A: Papers in viticulture; Bulletin 22B; Papers in winemaking and wine evaluation.The papers in these bulletins (22 A and B) were presented at the two courses in Grapes and Wine held at Lincoln College in November 1978

A Guide for Physical Development

Over the past year the campus for the new Governors State University in Park Forest South has been under study. It has been investigated not just from the standpoint of how the physical characteristics of the site will eventually accommodate structures; but by the many factors that will ultimately contribute to the overall success of the institution. As part of the planning process for this campus, a series of interim reports was prepared as an indication of progress and to allow those involved in the planning to better understand the influences that have prompted the conclusions of this study. The purpose of this document is to summarize the material presented in the interim reports and to re-emphasize those portions which have emerged as significantly contributory to the planning process. Much of what is contained herein is extracted from previously submitted material. It has been arranged in such a way as to offer continuity to the random approach of data gathering which because of circumstances is typical in early stages of a new campus. In general, the contents of this report began with the site as an area of land which offers many opportunities for development. The analysis of the site and its surrounding area reveals many factors that enhance these opportunities. The analysis reveals as well the problems of the land, and the relationship of the site to its edges. The sorting out of the site elements has allowed an investigation of objectives which would aid in bridging the gap between existing characteristics of the !and and options for development . Finally, the patterns of development are studied and a campus plan emerges. The plan in itself does not offer a precise solution nor does it attempt to define the potential growth patterns for an experimenting institution. It should, however, serve as a guide for future development of the campus and as a basis of judgment on which future decisions can be made. (From the Forward material

Continuing education guidelines for February 1, 2021 - January 31, 2023 reporting period

The SC Board of Landscape Architectural Examiners requires twenty (20) hours of continuing education activities for each biennium renewal period. This document provides information to meet and document continuing education activities for each biennium