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Multivariate Interactive Visualization of Data in Generative Design
(2016-02-29)
In this paper we describe our work on providing support for design decision making in generative design systems producing large quantities of simulation data. The work is motivated by the continuing challenge of making ...
The Chawls and Slums of Mumbai: Story of Urban Sprawl
(2018-04-14)
In Mumbai, informal dwellings such as slums and tenement housing, or chawls, are an
outcome of the exponential increase in the city’s population after the upsurge of mills
and industries during 19th-century British rule ...
Metropolitan Accessibility and Transportation Sustainability: Comparative Indicators for Policy Reform
(2011-01)
Accessibility is most commonly studied and measured within the context of a single metropolitan region. By contrast, this study applies metrics of accessibility (for work, non-work, by auto and transit) that incorporate ...
Aspirations of Economic Resilience: An Analysis of the Infuriating Logic of Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena Development
(2018-04-14)
The narrative of deindustrialization and urban decline has been well-documented
in literature. Local governments in the United States have responded to structural
inequities in the use and generation of capital with some ...
A Geometric Comparison of Branching Structures in Tension and in Compression versus Minimal Paths
(International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 2007-12-03)
Branching structures are based on geometric systems that expand through bifurcation without returning to form closed cells. In this sense, branching structures resemble the structure of trees that branch continually outward. ...
Racially Restrictive Covenants in the United States: A Call to Action
(2018-04-14)
This paper examines the history and structure of racially restrictive covenants in the
United States to better comprehend their continued existence, despite their illegality.
While unenforceable, racially restrictive ...
The City of Tomorrow . . . Today
(2018-04-14)
First published in 1961, Lewis Mumford’s classic macrohistorical work "The City
in History" follows human civilization from its paleolithic origins to modern-day
metropolises. Mumford was both a historian and social ...
Using Evolutionary Computation to explore geometry and topology without ground structures
(IASS-IACM, 2008-05-29)
Over the past two decades there has been an increasing interest in using what has come to be called Evolutionary Computation (EC) in the analysis and optimization of structural systems. These methods include Genetic ...