Life Of People In Cities Research Articles

Protection of the Smart City against CME

Today life in many cities strongly depends on electricity. In many articles we can find designs of smart, clean and beautiful modern cities. All aspects of activity in cities are based on the use of control and supply systems. All of them use electricity as control signals and as power. A big but underconsidered problem is reliability of city substructures against Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun. These events may damage elements of basic importance for life of people in cities. The article suggests some kinds of protection for the city substructures against CME.

공간구문론을 이용한 농어촌 뉴타운 시범사업 지구내의 주택 평면 공간 분석

The remarkable growth of city population and rate of urbanization are increasing every year rapidly in Korea. On the other hand young people are decreasing and old people are increasing in rural areas. So in 2009, the five Rural New-Town Development Areas were selected by the Ministry for Food, Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries. To provide data necessary for housing types and floor planning and development suitable for rural new-town development to be implemented constantly in rural areas all over the country later, this study used a space syntax program to analyze housing types and space structures within houses in five new-town development areas. After analyzing 33 floor plans for the five areas, there were few houses with separation of communal (integration space) and personal living spaces (segregation space). In particular, 82% had personal living spaces requiring protection of privacy, such as bedrooms and the toilet, classified into communal living spaces. Residential houses for rural new-town development targeting the young population valuing personal life and privacy, which failed to reflect city people's life properly, were expected to decrease residential satisfaction after occupancy.