Recent Work: Cultural Excavations

For many people, the relationship of the product of architecture to the contents within which it is produced, commissioned, or used ultimately remains unquestioned. Our work in design research concerns itself with a critical inquiry into new surfaces, sites, programs, and materials that may operate as a scaffolding for contemporary logics of production which define our culture\u27s attitudes towards the artifacts which it produces

Identity: key to meaningful place - making

Ovaj je članak napisan da bi se upozorilo na sastavnice koje su "stvorile" mjesto zvano Berkeley, a koje su povezane s njegovim smještajem. Ime Berkeley obuhvaća i Sveučilišno naselje Campus i grad koji ga okružuje. Autor je želio pokazati kako detaljnije poznavanje fenomena identiteta mjesta može poslužiti za usmjeravanje njegove budućnosti. Za tu se svrhu služi priloženim pregledom Deset svojstava identiteta mjesta do kojih je došao detaljnim terenskim proučavanjem gradskih sredina različitih veličina i oblika. Članak će pokazati važnost tih svojstava u stvaranju karaktera berkeleyjskog Campusa kao zasebne sredine u kontekstu grada.This paper proposes to make site-specific the ingredients that have gone into "making" a place called Berkeley, the name that identifies both the University Campus and the City which embraces it. The intent is to show how a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Identity with Place may serve to guide its prospects for the future. To do this the author draws on the attached summary of Ten Properties of Identity with Place developed from extensive field research in urban places of various scales and forms. The paper will demonstrate the extent to which these properties measure up to the environmental character of the Berkeley Campus seen in the context to The City

Identity: key to meaningful place - making

Ovaj je članak napisan da bi se upozorilo na sastavnice koje su "stvorile" mjesto zvano Berkeley, a koje su povezane s njegovim smještajem. Ime Berkeley obuhvaća i Sveučilišno naselje Campus i grad koji ga okružuje. Autor je želio pokazati kako detaljnije poznavanje fenomena identiteta mjesta može poslužiti za usmjeravanje njegove budućnosti. Za tu se svrhu služi priloženim pregledom Deset svojstava identiteta mjesta do kojih je došao detaljnim terenskim proučavanjem gradskih sredina različitih veličina i oblika. Članak će pokazati važnost tih svojstava u stvaranju karaktera berkeleyjskog Campusa kao zasebne sredine u kontekstu grada.This paper proposes to make site-specific the ingredients that have gone into "making" a place called Berkeley, the name that identifies both the University Campus and the City which embraces it. The intent is to show how a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Identity with Place may serve to guide its prospects for the future. To do this the author draws on the attached summary of Ten Properties of Identity with Place developed from extensive field research in urban places of various scales and forms. The paper will demonstrate the extent to which these properties measure up to the environmental character of the Berkeley Campus seen in the context to The City

Identity: Key to Meaningful Place-Making

Ovaj je članak napisan da bi se upozorilo na sastavnice koje su "stvorile" mjesto zvano Berkeley, a koje su povezane s njegovim smještajem. Ime Berkeley obuhvaća i Sveučilišno naselje Campus i grad koji ga okružuje. Autor je želio pokazati kako detaljnije poznavanje fenomena identiteta mjesta može poslužiti za usmjeravanje njegove budućnosti. Za tu je svrhu u priloženim dodacima prikazan nastanak procesa urbanog čitanja identiteta kao i rječnik deset svojstava identiteta mjesta.This paper proposes to make site-specific the ingredients that have gone into "making" a place called Berkeley, the name that identifies both the University Campus and the City which embraces it. The intent is to show how a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Identity with Place may serve to guide its prospects for the future. To do this the author draws on the attached Appendix I, II the entire process for "Urban Reading" of the identity is shown and ten properties as a glossary, aswell

Tomando en Cuenta lo Importante: Investigación Vecinal para la Salud y Justicia Económica y Ambiental en Richmond, North Richmond, y San Pablo

108 p. Libro electrónicoEl Proyecto de Indicadores del Oeste del Condado fue lanzado en 2006 para descubrir las respuestas de la comunidad a esta pregunta y trabajar con residentes y organizaciones locales para fortalecer el poder para alcanzar esta visión. Su punto principal: una comunidad saludable requiere justicia ambiental y económica. Con justicia ambiental, los residentes de Richmond, North Richmond, y San Pablo viven en una comunidad saludable y segura sin importar su raza, nacionalidad o situación económica. Justicia económica asegura que cada habitante tiene acceso a un medio de subsistencia significativo y que cada vecindario cuenta con los recursos necesarios para que ellos mismos puedan desarrollarse. Subyacente a todo el proyecto está la idea de que la investigación controlada y dirigida por los habitantes del vecindario puede ayudar a construir movimientos poderosos para un cambio social. El poder unificador de la investigación participativa sobre preocupaciones del vecindario construye conexiones y tiene éxito en temas como buenos trabajos, calidad del aire, oportunidades para jóvenes, condiciones del parque, alumbrado público, y calidad de las viviendas, y tiene poder para ayudar a unificar diversas comunidades

Multi-modality machine learning predicting Parkinson's disease

Personalized medicine promises individualized disease prediction and treatment. The convergence of machine learning (ML) and available multimodal data is key moving forward. We build upon previous work to deliver multimodal predictions of Parkinson's disease (PD) risk and systematically develop a model using GenoML, an automated ML package, to make improved multi-omic predictions of PD, validated in an external cohort. We investigated top features, constructed hypothesis-free disease-relevant networks, and investigated drug-gene interactions. We performed automated ML on multimodal data from the Parkinson's progression marker initiative (PPMI). After selecting the best performing algorithm, all PPMI data was used to tune the selected model. The model was validated in the Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Program (PDBP) dataset. Our initial model showed an area under the curve (AUC) of 89.72% for the diagnosis of PD. The tuned model was then tested for validation on external data (PDBP, AUC 85.03%). Optimizing thresholds for classification increased the diagnosis prediction accuracy and other metrics. Finally, networks were built to identify gene communities specific to PD. Combining data modalities outperforms the single biomarker paradigm. UPSIT and PRS contributed most to the predictive power of the model, but the accuracy of these are supplemented by many smaller effect transcripts and risk SNPs. Our model is best suited to identifying large groups of individuals to monitor within a health registry or biobank to prioritize for further testing. This approach allows complex predictive models to be reproducible and accessible to the community, with the package, code, and results publicly available

A&P : Revista de Arquitectura y Planeamiento Nº3-4/64

Contiene artículos de diferentes áreas temáticas (Arquitectura – Diseño – Historia – Urbanismo entre otros) Autores: Anibal Moliné, Misha Black, José María Marchetti, Jorge B. Borgato, Héctor H. Elena, Adelaida Arribillaga, John Friedmann, Francis Violich, Florial H. Forni, Adriano Groenewegen, Jorge Enrique HardoyUniversidad Nacional del Litoral. Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas. Escuela de Arquitectura y Planeamient

Lessons from complexity science for urban health and well-being

From a complexity science perspective, urban health and well-being challenges emerge due to the complexity of urban systems. Adverse urban health outcomes emerge from failing to respond to that complexity by taking a systems approach in knowledge and action which would open opportunity spaces for human agents to create benefits which in turn would generate salutogenic health and well-being outcomes. Lessons learned from complexity science suggest that adverse urban health outcomes emerge from a poor understanding of their complexity and from not engaging with them in a transdisciplinary, integrated fashion. A conceptual framework is presented which combines systems models from the natural and social sciences and explains how opportunities for advancing health and well-being can be co-created. The framework demonstrates that taking a systems approach is a necessary cognitive response from learning the lessons of complexity science and from understanding that humans are an inextricable part of the systems they aim at understanding and managing. Such response is at the core of systems intelligence. The implications are far reaching for the science of urban health and well-being

The Grassroots Origins of the DCRP

In the spring of 1 929 when I first entered this Old Ark - the original architecture building - never could I have imagined receiving such a tribute on this September day of 1997 for my role in launching the DCRP. I was then a young man of eighteen fresh from Lowell High School in crowded San Francisco. This inviting shingled building, designed by Bernard Maybeck only a few years before, stood as a product of the Arts and Crafts movement. Breaking with the rigid confines of the Parisian Beaux Arts doctrine, it became for me a pivotal point for understanding the campus as a whole and thus shaping my identity as a person. In developing my own thinking about local environmental planning, I learned how relating the built environment to its own unique native landscape served as an invaluable context for nurturing creativity in the minds of young people. The social and physical environment of the Bay Area at the time provided an invaluable context for those of us building the DCRP in those early years