Roots of Urban Morphology

Kristjánsdóttir, Sigríður

doi:10.15320/iconarp.2019.79

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“…Miesto morfologijos tyrimai siejami su XVIII amžiaus pabaiga. Žymus filosofas ir poetas Goethe buvo pirmasis, aprašęs morfologijos idėją savo raštuose ir pristatęs vidinę struktūrą ir formos kaitos istoriją (Kristjánsdóttir, 2019). Visgi miestovaizdžio kaip urbanistinės morfologijos objekto tyrimai yra gerokai jaunesni ir jų ištakos siejamos su Antrojo pasaulinio karo pabaiga.…”

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Townscape: Concept and Research Origins

Panavaitė

2023

Science - Future of Lithuania

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Townscape research in the context of urban morphology research is a new direction. To understand the scope and need of research, first, you need to answer the question of what townscape is and how it can be understood in the context of research of various directions, what is the object being studied. It is important to understand why there was a need for research in such a direction and what influence it had on urban planning and design. The article aims to name the concept of townscape in the eyes of different researchers, to describe the possible ways of understanding and researching the townscape, to reveal the origin and need of townscape research in area of today’s urban design. The main goal of the article is to refine the definition of the concept of townscape.

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Section: Miestovaizdžio Tyrimai Užsienyjeunclassified

Townscape: Concept and Research Origins

Panavaitė

2023

Science - Future of Lithuania

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“…The outcome of such study was, set of fundamental urban concepts i.e., urban tissue, organism, and operative history [47]. His principal adherent in study of typo-morphology was Gianfranco Caniggia who worked on recovery of historic centres of cities and interpreted his philosophy with more stress on built environment and reconstruction of events in an urban context [48]. Conzen (1907Conzen ( -2000 MRG Conzen's developed approach of studying urban form is 'Town Plan Analysis' [49].…”

Section: Approaches Of Urban Morphologymentioning

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Integrated urban morphology approach to investigate urban design of Qambar Sindh

Khiani

2022

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Qambar city is the head quarter of Qambar-Shahdadkot district in Sindh province of Pakistan. The city is at latitude 27.5911425 and longitude 68.008461 or 27°35′28.1″N 68°00′30.5″E on the earth's surface. There is no published book or research paper available to describe the urban design and planning history of this city. The city has no comprehensive plan document to explain how conscious planning and urban design took place. No sequential records available about the formation and transformation of Qambar. Therefore, primary question explored in this paper i.e., how this city formed and transformed over the time with an integrated approach of urban morphology. The proposed approach is developed by integrating existing approaches of urban morphology developed internationally. The knowledge contribution of this paper is the novel approach of Integrated Urban Morphology for exploring undocumented and unplanned cities where no data available about the urban design, development, and planning history. To explain the usefulness of this approach the city of Qambar, Sindh, investigated and its brief findings are given in this paper. The value contribution of this research to industry, expected in the form of improvement in methodological approaches within the planning, development, and urban design professions. Vis-à-vis integrated urban morphology, remote urbanised settlements will be delved into with minimal professional expertise and financial, managerial resources to contribute merit towards urban planning, urban design, and urban development of uncharted urban contexts.

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“…Iceland (2020a). Showing the street pattern of town Grindavík (Kristjánsdóttir S., 2015b(Kristjánsdóttir S., , 2017(Kristjánsdóttir S., , 2019b As the figure shows, the power station is located next to the dormant volcano Þorbjörn; on the other side of mountain Þorbjörn is the urban settlement of the fishing town Grindavík, currently with a population of 3500 people (Statistics Iceland, 2020). Grindavík urban settlement by the Vikings was impacted by the fact how close Grindavík is to the Mid-Atlantic ridge, visible on land on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland.…”

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Carbfix and Sulfix in Geothermal Production, and the Blue Lagoon in Iceland: Grindavík Urban Settlement, and Volcanic Activity

Kristjánsdóttir

2021

BJES

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This article analyses ways to maintain reservoir sustainability in the area surrounding the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, near the urban settlement of Grindavík on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. The Svartsengi geothermal power plant operations have pioneered the simultaneous production of electricity and hot water from a geothermal reservoir. The Blue Lagoon is a warm geothermal pool using brine from the power plant. This paper reports on the processes and procedures at the Blue Lagoon and the Svartsengi power station, aimed at increasing sustainability of the geothermal resource by injecting the geothermal brine back to ground, to ensure the geothermal resource sustainability in the area. This paper also discusses and explains in details the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from geothermal plant operations in Iceland. When the steam from a geothermal reservoir emerges from the ground, it comes up with enough energy to drive turbine generators for electricity production. However, this involves releasing several greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, including hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2). This research spotlights a geothermal power plant in Hellisheiði, Iceland, and the use of the CarbFix procedure of capturing and storing carbon dioxide, reducing CO2 emissions from the harnessing of geothermal resources for electricity. CarbFix is a carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon mineralization procedure aimed at binding CO2 to rock. This procedure has been used at Hellisheiði power plant for the past decade in Iceland. Scientists have also developed the SulFix procedure, to capture sulphate H2S in ground. These procedures, SulFix and CarbFix, reduce outlet of greenhouse gases by storing them in basalt rock – also referred to as mineral carbonation or carbon capture and storage. This involves dissolving the greenhouse gases in water, and re-injecting them back into the ground through boreholes, in Hellisheiði. This current research also shows the geology in these areas and reports on calculations that have found re-injection of greenhouse gasses to ground to be economically feasible. The paper covers several scenarios that have already been tested to determine the financial feasibility of capture and storage. These have involved calculating the estimated internal rate of return (IRR), the return on investment (ROI) and the present value (NPV). Economic calculations have been made, showing the CarbFix project to be a feasible option contributing to decreased greenhouse gas emissions.

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Roots of Urban Morphology

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Townscape: Concept and Research Origins

Townscape: Concept and Research Origins

Integrated urban morphology approach to investigate urban design of Qambar Sindh

Carbfix and Sulfix in Geothermal Production, and the Blue Lagoon in Iceland: Grindavík Urban Settlement, and Volcanic Activity

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