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The optimal density |
The optimal density, Nopt, can be defined as the lowest density where competition for resources suppresses growth and the total biomass yield per unit ground area is maximized. |
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Cashless transactions |
In cashless transactions, payments are made or accepted without the use of hard cash. This includes payments made via credit/debit cards, cheques, DD, NEFT, RTGS or any other form of online payment that removes the need for cash. |
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The Contemporary city |
The Contemporary city was meant to achieve standardised principles of town planning, as the rigid geometry was a part of the machine aesthetics. Le Corbusier presented a city solving the urban problems by separation & order. |
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chronotope |
Urban rhythms are both everyday life and spatial rhythms. One can recognise rhythms everywhere in human activity and life in urban places. In this context, rhythms take concrete forms. |
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derelict building |
empty and in very bad condition فرسوده |
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Gentrification |
the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, often displacing current inhabitants in the process. ●"an area undergoing rapid gentrification" ■the process of making someone or something more refined, polite, or respectable. ●"football has undergone gentrification" |
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Swampy Lowland |
What is a swampy lowland?"The swampy lowlands, where situations are confusing messes incapable of technical solution and usually involve problems of greatest human concern" (Schön 1983, pg 42). |