The Lantern Vol. 43, No. 1, Fall 1976

• Frustration • Think Again • My Sweet • Secret Society of One • November Ghosts • A Lonely Girl\u27s Prayer • Visions of You • The Innocence Baby • Society • Silence • Don\u27t Turn Around • Waves • Loneliness • Time Writer • Brood • It\u27s Not Funny • Four Haiku, Entwined • We\u27ll Have to Stop Meeting Like This • Castles In the Sand • The Seahttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1109/thumbnail.jp

The Lantern Vol. 43, No. 2, May 1977

• Ode to Loneliness • Windy Grief! • Death • The Icicle Vase • To Ellen • The Arrival of Night • The Reserve Clause • The Unspoken War • Bull\u27s Eye • Closing Scene • Brown Bottle Candles • Goodbye • There\u27s Individuality In The Surf • Impermanence • Dark Nightshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1110/thumbnail.jp

Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling

The WUDAPT (World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools project goal is to capture consistent information on urban form and function for cities worldwide that can support urban weather, climate, hydrology and air quality modeling. These data are provided as urban canopy parameters (UCPs) as used by weather, climate and air quality models to simulate the effects of urban surfaces on the overlying atmosphere. Information is stored with different levels of detail (LOD). With higher LOD greater spatial precision is provided. At the lowest LOD, Local Climate Zones(LCZ) with nominal UCP ranges is provided (order 100 m or more). To describe the spatial heterogeneity present in cities with great specificity at different urban scales we introduce the Digital Synthetic City (DSC) tool to generate UCPs at any desired scale meeting the fit-for-purpose goal of WUDAPT. 3D building and road elements of entire city landscapes are simulated based on readily available data. Comparisons with real-world urban data are very encouraging. It is customized (C-DSC) to incorporate each city's unique building morphologies based on unique types, variations and spatial distribution of building typologies, architecture features, construction materials and distribution of green and pervious surfaces. The C-DSC uses crowdsourcing methods and sampling within city Testbeds from around the world. UCP data can be computed from synthetic images at selected grid sizes and stored such that the coded string provides UCP values for individual grid cells

Research in the globalscape : conceptual tools for understanding sites

[[WORKSHOP Within EDRA 35, 2004: Design With Spirit Moderated by Julia Nevarez with contributions from Denise Alcantara, Clio Capitanachi, Jeffrey Pall Wandersman, Suzanne Scheld, Bob Bechtel, Constatine Kijanenko, Dana Taplin, Robert Marans, Ashraf M. Salama, Michael Mitrany, and Sanjoy Mazundar]] Purposes and objectives: While previous workshops have deal with urban research methodologies, this workshop will help uncover those conceptual tools used in the study of environments. While the epistemological foundations of research include a consideration for the origins, methods and limits of knowledge, this workshop will focus on the methods and discuss concepts and spatial metaphors used to speak of the city. Explicitly and implicitly conceptual tools, such as spatial metaphors help to advance the analysis of urban phenomena. Little explanation is given to the underlying conceptual and spatial metaphors of urban though. This workshop will attempt at uncovering the epistemologies produced by the craft of research in the global context by 1) presenting research in specific sites, 2) identifying and describing the spatial metaphors used in the analysis of cities and other settled areas, and 3) examining the discourses these spatial metaphors represent. Expected outcomes: This workshop seeks to offer a platform where to discuss the conceptual tools used in urban research, specifically spatial metaphors that help the analysis of the city and other settled areas. The workshop also seeks to identify the discourses from which these spatial metaphors emerge as a way to advance our awareness of how knowledge is obtained through research. An identification of concepts and spatial metaphors will help identify the possible benefits and limitations of using such conceptual and analytical tools in the production of knowledge about the urban environment. Plans to involve the audience:A reference list and selection of readings will be distributed to participants. There will be three presentations by workshop members that will provide examples of conceptual tools used in the analysis o furban research. A group exercise will help participants in different subgroups identify other conceptual tools that they use in their current research. An open group discussion about the sub-group activities will follow.List of possible participants: Denise Alcantara, Clio Capitanachi, Jeffrey Pall Wandersman, Suzanne Scheld, Bob Bechtel, Constatine Kijanenko, Dana Taplin, Robert Marans, Ashraf M. Salama, Michael Mitrany, and Sanjoy Mazundar

Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling (vol 28, 100459, 2019)

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