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  2. Site analysis - Wikipedia

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    This would also include the immediate surroundings of the site. The reaction of the surrounding buildings towards the site and people moving around should be analysed. Other important components of the neighborhood context include an analysis of existing paths (pedestrian, cyclist, and vehicle), landmarks and nodes.

  3. Climatic geomorphology - Wikipedia

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    For example, Julius Büdel studied both cold-climate processes in Svalbard and weathering processes in tropical India to understand the origin of the relief of Central Europe, which he argued was a palimpsest of landforms formed at different times and under different climates.

  4. Morphology (architecture and engineering) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the wide implementation of suburban railway networks and motor buses were expected to have proportionately impact the higher increases in periphery land prices. Contrastingly, it is expected that in periods of low innovation within the transport sector land values would have been proportionately higher closer to the city centre. [ 13 ]

  5. Geomorphology - Wikipedia

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    The Ferguson Slide is an active landslide in the Merced River canyon on California State Highway 140, a primary access road to Yosemite National Park. Soil , regolith , and rock move downslope under the force of gravity via creep , slides , flows, topples, and falls.

  6. Built environment - Wikipedia

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    An example of this during the industrial revolution was the City Beautiful movement. The City Beautiful movement emerged in the 1890s as a result of the disorder and unhealthy living conditions within industrial cities. [23] The movement promoted improved circulation, civic centers, better sanitation, and public spaces.

  7. Building typology - Wikipedia

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    Multiple studies using this method have identified important building types, for example Chinese shophouses, Shanghai's Shikumen housing, terrace housing in Great Britain, Courtyard buildings in France, and the atrium houses found in many hot climates. Atrium types are also important for mosques, shopping malls, and some hotels.

  8. Urban climatology - Wikipedia

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    Urban climatology is the study of urban climate.It is a branch of climatology that concerns interactions between urban areas and the atmosphere, the effects they have on one another, and the varying spatial and temporal scales at which these processes (and responses) occur.

  9. Architectural decision - Wikipedia

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    Often, no single optimal solution for any given set of architecture design problems exists. Architectural decision making is a core responsibility of software architects; [5] additional motivation for/of the importance of architectural decisions as a first-class concept in software architecture can be found online. [6]