Urban Planning and Civil Engineering

Edited by Virginia P. Sisiopiku and Ossama E. Ramadan

ISBN: 978-960-598-009-2, 410 pages

First published in 2015 by ATINER

Price: Paperback: 50€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)

Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

Preface Virginia P. Sisiopiku and Ossama E. Ramadan		i
Urban Planning and Traffic Safety
1.	Speed/walking: From the Flâneur to the Ferrari: How the Acceleration of the Modern City has resulted in a Shift in Urban Perception Kristen Gagnon	3
2.	Location-based Social Media and Urban Analysis using Foursquare Data to Map City Emotions Abel Silva Lizcano and Laura Silva Lizcano	15
3.	An Analytical View on Resilience Urban Planning, focusing on Urban Transport Systems and Climate Change Peyman Khodabakhsh, Samira Mashayekhi and Behzad Malekpour Asl	29
4.	Digital Roadside Advertising and Traffic Safety Virginia P. Sisiopiku, Daniel Hester, Albert Gan, Despina Stavrinos and Andrew Sullivan	43
Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation
5.	Urban Renewal in Historical Cities in China: Exploring Methods based on Urban Form Studies Hao Wu and Wenyong Tan	57
6.	The Place of the Rivers in Urban Environmental History of Kayseri Methiye Gul Coteli	71
7.	Transformation and Modification of Historical Building use, and Owner Motivation for Urban Conservation in the Nineizaka and Sanneizaka Preservation District, Kyoto, Japan Naphasinee Suebsuk and Osamu Nakagawa	83
Community Development, Activism, and Empowerment
8.	Patterns of Communicating Spatial Change in Polish Municipalities Łukasz Damurski	105
9.	The Social Perspective of Flood Infrastructure Design Sarah Louise Fitton, Alice Moncaster and Peter Guthrie	119
10.	Mobility Study in the Metropolitan Area of Cluj-Napoca Rozalia Melania Boitor and Mihai Iliescu	133
11.	Patterns of Socio-economic Deprivation and its Impact on Quality of Life: Case of a Less Developed Region in West Bengal, India Basudatta Sarkar, Haimanti Banerji and Joy Sen	145
12.	Shared Space in Conflict Areas: Exploring the Case of Nicosia’s Buffer Zone Zinovia Foka	157
Risk Management and Quality Control
13.	Practices, Barriers and Challenges of Risk Management Implementation in Albanian Construction Industry Julinda Keçi and Enea Mustafaraj	175
14.	Non-destructive Electrical Methods to Determine the Quality of Concrete Sreekanta Das, William Clements and Govinda Raju	189
15.	Evaluation of Treatment Choice, user Cost and Fuel Consumption of Two Roadways in Hamilton County Tennessee using HDM-4 Mbakisya Onyango, Trisha Sen, Ignatius Fomunung, Joseph Owino and James Maxwell	201
Structural Analysis, Design, and Reliability
16.	Applications of Reliability Analysis in Structural Engineering Vazul Boros, Balthasar Novák and Ahmed El-Shennawy	219
17.	Evaluation of High-deformation Capability and High-strength Steels as Reinforcement in Reinforced Concrete Members Arcan Yanik, Ercan Yuksel and Cem Yalcin	231
18.	Experimental Behavior of Rectangular Shear Walls Subjected to Low Axial Loads Bahadir Yuksel	243
19.	Shear Behavior of RC Slender Beams with Corrosion-damaged Stirrups Ahmed El-Sayed, Raja Hussain and Ahmed Shuraim	253
Novel Manufacturing Techniques, Structural Materials and Alternative Additives
20.	Tornado Debris Impact Tests of a New Composite Storm Shelter Room System Kittinan Dhiradhamvit, Hongyu Zhou and Thomas L. Attard	265
21.	Development of Masonry Blocks with Thermal Insulation Jitka Hroudová, Jiří Zach and Martin Sedlmajer	277
22.	Effect of Powdered Scoria Rocks on the Fresh and Hardened Properties of High Performance Concrete Galal Fares, Abdullrahman Alhozaimy, Abdulaziz Al-Negheimish and Omer Abdalla Alawad	289
23.	Concrete Mixed Cotton Dust Ash as Replacement of Ordinary Portland Cement Borvorn Israngkura Na Ayudhya, Yothin Unkoon and Preecha Chantawong	299
Geotechnical Investigations and Seismic Analyses
24.	Comparative Study on Seismic Vulnerability of the Bucharest Buildings Andrei-Gabriel Bica and Gabriel Danila	313
25.	Comparison of Ground Motion Pulse Models for the Drift Response of Seismically Isolated Buildings Hatice Gazi, Seda Öncü-Davas and Cenk Alhan	321
26.	The Effect of Supplemental Elastic Stiffness on Reduction in Superstructure Displacements in Seismic Isolated Bridges under Near-field Earthquakes Hamid Reza Ebrahimi Motlagh and Alireza Rahai	333
27.	Assessment and Proposal Structural Repair Strategies for Damaged Bridges in Velipoja Iralda Xhaferaj and Idlir Dervishi	343
28.	Grey Correlation Analysis on Sensitive Formation of Open-pit Slope Zhen-Hua Xie, Bing-Bing Fan and Dong Yang	353
29.	Geotechnical Investigation of Ban Koum Dam Site, LPDR-Thailand Boarders Uba Sirikaew, Supoj Srinil, Arnonporn Suwannaplai and Somchai Santinawa	365
30.	Seismic Shear Response of Diaphragms of Buildings Chikara Iihoshi and Takayuki Minagawa	377