Key Activities Understanding the Olympic movement and operation history, learn from previous hosting cities’ experience Finding connections between Olympic Games and Urban development, and explore how would them affect the modern Stadium design Compare and contrast similar structural design and construction method, revise and design to accommodate “modern circus” practice Simulating reconfiguring scenarios, and examining possibilities Key Resource Pitts, Adrian C., and Hanwen Liao.…
The displacement of BME and low-income groups leads to the issues of environmental gentrification. If city planners are working to increase green infrastructure within an impoverished community, will they find success in creating a healthier, “greener” space or in a wealthier, “whiter” space? Although plans for city green space include sustainable initiatives, they oftentimes lack the advocacy for environmental justice. This inadequacy depicts the concepts of sustainability and going green…
thought even a few years ago the Asian aviation traffic hub would be Singapore and even less aviation experts predicted that European aviation traffic hubs would be losing customers to Dubai. An aviation traffic hub can drive achieve profitability, infrastructure, technology and customers, but depending on what the markets need may change as is recently occurring in the international…
5 Best Places To Retire: What Makes A Great Retirement Spot? Retirement is a new beginning of life. Usually most people plan to retire and live at the native place or at the family heirloom, where one has spent almost all the childhood and growing years and in which one knows every narrow lane and seasons. Nevertheless, the world is changing with the fast pace. The globalization actually helped to open the door of all countries for the people to live under certain conditions. Now, an Indian can…
Cybersecurity of energy delivery systems is critical for protecting the energy infrastructure and the integral function that it serves in the citizen’s life (Fritsch et al, 2015). Energy delivery systems are the mainstay of the energy sector which is a network of processes that produce, transfer, and distribute energy and the unified…
As previously stated the U.S. voting system is not identified as critical infrastructure and has become outdated even with the limited resources that individual states have invested into them. The cybersecurity is ineffective and cannot keep up with the pace of the current threat. Ultimately the decentralized nature of each state…
state that it is a positive, negative, or neutral one? • Are there now any associated changes to your daily lifestyle as a result of the consumption of this culture? 3. To what extent have the developmental projects (including the production of infrastructure) taking place in the city affected your daily lifestyle and quality of life? Appendix B: Table showing the funding formula for investing contributors for the Pan American Games. All column values are in millions of dollars.…
Africa, but they did not exploit the continent enough” could be interpreted as: because colonizers did not exploit Africa enough, Africa is underdeveloped. This also implies that if Africa is “well exploited,” African countries will develop good infrastructures, satisfactory education systems, and competent commercial environments. However, numerous pieces of evidence prove that Africa was not “well exploited” in terms of the development of the financial market and industrial progress. Was…
While the space is definitely a strength of Casa San Ysidro, it can also be considered a weakness, especially with regards to the infrastructure. Casa San Ysidro is currently not equipped to host events on a grand scale; they need improvements to WiFi, to the exhibits (to make them a bit safer for mass traffic) and the need for more (and bigger) bathrooms. They also are far away from…
It wasn’t that people at that time couldn’t smell the suffocating smoke, but the warmth and energy that coal brought was more important at the time. Around 1980 there were 3700 factories inside Beijing, for a large agricultural country eager to develop, smokestacks were a sign of progress. We had absolutely no experience or consciousness of pollution, nor the ability to control it. Major pollutants did not have any set standards. Even though the amount of coal burned wasn’t near today’s levels,…