Colour as a tool in shaping the city image – based on the case of Mombasa

Abstract

The article discusses the architectural tradition of mombasa, a port city in east africa. starting from the 10th century aD, mombasa was an important trade centre of the swahili culture, which developed its own language, art, crafts and architecture, drawing on arabic, Persian and Indian influences. mombasa is currently undergoing strong urbanisation processes, which lead to its rapid expansion, spatial chaos and urban poverty. The local authorities facing these problems decided to improve the tourist appeal of the city through initiatives to make it cleaner and enhance its aesthetic values. In 2018, an administrative decree was issued that required the façades of downtown buildings to be painted blue and white. as a result, mombasa became the most frequently photographed city in africa.

The essence of thermovision research in the prevention of fires in underground workings

“…Underground fires are classified as technical hazards. During the incident fire, poisonous gases and smoke spread quickly and therefore pose a threat over long distances to a significant number of workers [8]. In a situation where mining is carried out in zones particularly endangered by the emission of the mine ventilation plays an important role.…”

“…Nowadays it is possible to observe ongoing research on combating natural hazards [7,8]. In the works on innovative technologies [3] significant conclusions were shown regarding the increase of work safety in underground mining [4,5,6,7].…”

“…Due to the high risk posed by the occurrence of fires in mining excavations it is necessary to regularly analyze the term conditions of devices which are the most common cause of fire hazard formation. The temperature measurements described in this paper are further elaborated on in [6], while the data that has been analyzed for the copper mine can be found [5,8]. The purpose of this consideration was to describe the conditions in which dangerous situations occur, critical temperatures of devices, favorable conditions -the composition of the mine air and its flow.…”