中国2010上海世博会给水排水新技术解读与展望

借助中国2010上海世博会的契机,对给水排水新技术情况进行了全面调研,总结了世博会上展示和应用给水排水新技术的展馆和地标,解读了各个国家和地区向世界展示的给水排水方面的最新技术和先进理念,展望了城市给水排水技术未来发展的动态及趋势,指出了世博后上海给水排水技术的重点发展方向.     

峨眉山世界遗产地保护规划的探索研究——以峨眉山风景名胜区总体规划为例

峨眉山当前面临的游客量剧增、原住民生存与遗产地保护之间的矛盾、环境保护等问题.峨眉山规划坚持了原真性和完整性的原则,采取了全面保存遗产地的原始面貌、限制外来因素对遗产地产生的危害、拆迁已影响遗产地风貌的人为设计、延续遗产地的历史文脉等措施.     

iPhone City

Is the iPhone and a whole new generation of mobiles and PDAs eclipsing the physical city? Whereas once the metropolis alone brought together people, markets, goods, transport and information, the iPhone and similar handheld devices are changing spatial interaction. From Los Angeles, Benjamin H Bratton ruminates on the full impact of this technological shift. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

信息系统在世行贷款/欧盟赠款项目管理中的运用

介绍了在云贵鄂渝水土保持世行贷款/欧盟赠款项目中推广运用管理信息系统的缘由和过程,以及系统的基本架构和主要功能;分析并阐述了系统的使用效果;展望了今后的应用前景。     

Radical Interface AA New Media Research Initiative

At the Architectural Association in London, Joel Newman, Theodore Spyropoulos and Vasilis Stroumpakos are spearheading the New Media Research Initiative. Here they call for architecture to abandon its hold on the formal qualities of the physical in favour of a mode of experience that provides an interface that fully reflects the way we inhabit space today. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Scale study of sites and pavilions for World Expo 2010

The scale of sites and pavilions for World Expo 2010 (Shanghai World Expo) mainly refers to the study of their size including the area and number of exhibition hall needed in each pavilion and site with appropriate waiting area. All the design data of scale studied should reasonably meet the requirements during World Expo 2010 to accommodate large number of people for visiting and waiting to the full. __________ Translated from Architectural Journal, 2007, (1): 67–69 [译自: 建筑学报]     

Void Metabolism

Since the Second World War, the urban fabric of Tokyo has been shaped by individual landownership and the proliferation of the detached house. For most Japanese architectural offices, domestic practice provides the mainstay of their work. This focus on the single private house, though, also limits the range of possibilities for urban interventions. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow explains how through its development of ‘Void Metabolism’, the studio has been able to turn its focus on the residential into a positive, breaking down the barriers between private and shared space in the city.     

Practices @ Home: Assimilating the Past and the Present for a Visionary Architecture

Guest-Editor Mehran Gharleghi describes the work of four Iranian practices - Fluid Motion Architects (FMA), Pouya Khazaeli Parsa, Arsh Design Studio and Kourosh Rafiey/Asar Consultant Engineers' Co) - that are worthy of international attention. Over the last decade, all have distinguished themselves by developing a body of work ‘that is not only globally informed but also conscious and proud of its local, regional and national identity’.     

Consumer implications of the WCRF's permanent update on colorectal cancer

The last update published by the World Cancer Research Fund on colorectal cancer shows that there is convincing evidence that physical activity could contribute to the prevention of this type of cancers, while highlighting red meat and meat products consumption and alcohol among the factors that increase the disease's risk. The main message of this document is that the best prevention of colorectal cancer is the combination of higher physical activity with a fibre-rich and meat products poor diet. This information is useful the consumer who should make his food choices according to the scientific evidence. This contribution highlights challenges in communication and possible effects from the consumer perspective.