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A Multi-resolution Design Methodology Based on Discrete Models
(Springer Singapore, 2019-01-01)The use of programming languages in design opens up unexplored and previously unworkable territories, mainly, in conventional architectural practice. In the 1990s, languages of continuity, smoothness and seamlessness ... -
Stereovision Combined With Particle Tracking Velocimetry Reveals Advection and Uplift Within a Restraining Bend Simulating the Denali Fault
(Frontiers, 2018-10-10)Scaled physical experiments allow us to directly observe deformational processes that take place on time and length scales that are impossible to observe in the Earth's crust. Successful evaluation of advection and uplift ... -
First Conference on Community Resiliency 2010
(Virginia Tech. Global Forums on Urban and Regional Resilience., 2010-10)An agenda for the conference held on October 25-26, 2010, at Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue. The purpose of this conference was to engage both academics and practitioners on key issues related to resiliency. -
Global Effects of U.S. Dividend Income Tax
(Virginia Tech, 2016-07-27)Do non-U.S. firms respond to the U.S. dividend income tax? To explore this question, we examine the 2003 dividend tax cut which only applies to certain non-U.S. firms depending on both tax treaties and corresponding foreign ... -
Back to the Future: Lösch, Isard, and the Role of Money and Credit in the Space-Economy
(Virginia Tech, 2016-08)The recent financial crisis has been a powerful reminder that the intersectoral flow of funds is also—always and everywhere—a local phenomenon with real effects. Yet, the contemporary canon of regional economic theory has ... -
Conceptualizing Financial Resilience: The Challenges for Urban Theory
(Virginia Tech, 2016-01)This chapter outlines an urban theory of ‘financial resilience’ that accounts for the fact that the concurrent processes of urbanization and financialization render the economic system at once resilient and unstable. The ... -
Financial Stability Rearticulated: Institutional Reform, Post-Crisis Governance, and the New Regulatory Landscape in the United States
(Virginia Tech, 2015-02)The recent financial crisis was a powerful reminder that the inherent instability of the monetary-financial system is likely to entail serious consequences for the real economy. In the U.S., the monumental Dodd-Frank Wall ... -
Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience 2017 Annual Report
(Virginia Tech, 2017)The Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience brings together university researchers and partner organizations to facilitate conversations about patterns and processes of urbanization and regional development, with a ...
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