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- Stojanovski, Todor, et al.
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A commentary on (V)ISUF COVID-19 crisis calls (V stands for virtual)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Urban morphology. - : International Seminar on Urban Form. - 1027-4278. ; 24:2, s. 238-240
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2015, three language teachers working with student engineers at different European universities founded the Global Engineers Language Skills (GELS) network. The teachers' aims were to investigate and categorize necessary and desirable language and communication skills for engineers and ensure that these findings actively support the teaching and learning of additional languages in technical universities and engineering departments. We presented preliminary results of our work at CDIO's international conference in 2016. In this paper, we summarize the network's development since then, interpret the results of our investigations, and describe our work to disseminate our results and promote effective language and communication skills for engineering students. We also summarize our more recent work on enhancing the GELS framework of skills, applying for Erasmus+ KA2 funding, developing the GELS network from three to thirty universities through training events, integrating intercultural communication skills in our work, and teaching and learning through the medium of English.
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- Stojanovski, Todor
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Applying the Swedish urban typology in the city of Karlstad : neighborhood conceptualizations for urban development and transformation in the 21st century
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Many Swedish as many European cities experienced a similar history of urbanization, architectural styles and planning paradigms. Most of the Swedish neighborhoods originate or were modified in the 20th century and many of them, often copyrighted by architects and planners, have been preserved as they were designed. The fundamental urban challenge in this century is to find ways of urban redevelopment, transformation and adaptation of these neighborhoods to futures of social and environmental changes.The type in urban morphology is the encompassing category that fuses form with time and space and there is a long tradition and established schools in Europe which document the consistencies between urban form, history and society. In this article I analyze the neighborhoods in the city of Karlstad via the previously defined Swedish urban typology. The results show high explanation coefficients and low deviations. The typological neighborhoods have similar urban densities, either as population or work places per hectare or as floor area ratios (FAR) and some neighborhood types even deviate little in income. This allows discussions about urban densities, redevelopment and transformation without really talking about coefficients or numbers.The results awake a palette of debates. How stereotypical are the urban neighborhoods today and how and should we make them more unique? Are there other alternatives for the 21st century than the urban typologies from the past? Is conceptualizing neighborhoods through typologies enough for urban transformation?
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- Stojanovski, Todor, 1976-
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Bus rapid transit (BRT) and transitoriented development (TOD) : How to transform and adjust the Swedish cities for attractive bus systems like BRT? What demands BRT?
- 2013
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Bus rapid transit (BRT) is an innovative bus system with sophisticated vehicles and inflexible busways integrated in the cities, high capacity and high quality, high speed and frequency, distinctive image and comfort. Many in Sweden believe that is impossible to introduce BRT, even though the Swedish towns and cities can benefit from the image, speed and frequency that BRT symbolizes. The archipelago-like urbanization, urban sprawl and the uncompetitive journey times of public transportation compared with the private car are identified as main obstacles. New questions emerged: Is it possible to transform and adjust the Swedish towns and cities for BRT? What demands BRT? How is transit-oriented development (TOD) applicable in a Swedish context as a policy to integrate cities and BRT?In this licentiate thesis I investigate the interrelationship between bus transportation and neighborhoods, between BRT and urban form as well as the possibilities to introduce busways and BRT, to trigger TOD and to transform the Swedish towns and cities for BRT. Much has been written about BRT, but seldom by architects or urban planners and designers. BRT and TOD are seen though urban form and processes of urbanization within a morphological tradition established by Kevin Lynch. BRT is represented by paths and nodes that disperse distinctive attractiveness pattern of desirability cores that shape neighborhoods as districts. TOD is about synchronizing the everyday urban life with public transportation systems. BRT-TOD is defined as a policy to recognize desirability cores spread by the different infrastructures of BRT and promote development of urban form within their attractiveness pattern at urban and regional scale. BRT-TOD is discussed as a concept of BRT metropolis in context of the urbanization of Swedish towns and cities. TOD is defined morphologically as public transport cities. A public transport city is a city that in its development adapted to specific public transportation systems. TOD is nothing new in Europe or Sweden. To find regularities of the effect of public transportation systems on cities I do a historical overview of the Swedish towns and cities. In the end the position of bus and BRT, public transport cities and TOD and possibilities of future urban transformation of the smaller and larger Swedish cities towards BRT metropolises are discussed in context of today’s “‘system’ of automobility” and widespread car society and the emerging knowledge society and its postmodern fringes of urbanization.
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- Stojanovski, Todor, 1976-, et al.
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) och Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) - Stadsutveckling för effektiv kollektivtrafik : Erfarenheter från Sverige och andra länder - Vilka krav ställer BRT på bebyggelsen? - Hur kan svenska städer anpassas för BRT?
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Vilken befolkningstäthet behövs för BRT? En av förutsättningarna för att inrätta kollektivtrafik med god eller någorlunda god ekonomi är att många medborgare har samma resbehov samtidigt. Ett underlag för en BRT linje ligger på minst 5 000 dagliga resor enligt det amerikanska synsättet. I en stad eller stadsregion med en låg andel kollektivtrafik (ca 10 % i Karlstad och 5 % i Värmland) behövs mellan 33 000 till 42 000 boende och arbetsplatser för 10 minuterstrafik och 70 000 för 6 minuterstrafik samordnade i ett stråk.I genomsnitt gör en person 1 000 enkelresor per år, eller ca 3 resor per dag. Med låg andel kollektivtrafik kommer stora befolkningstäthetskrav. En utmaning är att uppnå 5 000 dagliga resor även med 5 000 boende och arbetsplatser. Det är möjligt om det finns ett urbant nätverk där kollektivtrafiken ligger centralt och attraherar en stor del av resandet i en stadsregion. Ett nätverkstänkande behövs för kollektivtrafikanpassad samhällsplanering och stadsutveckling. Många städer utvecklades inte linjärt och ibland behövs det flera BRT linjer i ett nätverk med viktigaste målpunkter som tunga bytespunkter i täta miljöer med blandade funktioner. Undersökningen i Karlstad har visat att urbana funktioner som handel och institutioner generar nästan dubbel så många dagliga resor per person.Vi föreslår TOD som en stegvis samhällsplaneringspolicy för anpassning till kollektivtrafiksinfrastruktur. Det handlar om att planera kollektivtrafikens stråk i nätverk med befolkning och verksamheter som trivs vid kollektivtrafik. En postmodern utmaning är att skapa multimodala urbana nätverk i en stadsregion. BRT har egenskaper likt en minitunnelbana och kan möjliggöra detta. BRT är inte målet i sig, men ett verktyg att uppnå ett urbant nätverk. Målet är ju en levande stad där det också är lätt att resa för alla. Det handlar om mjuka och hårda TOD åtgärder på läns och kommunnivå, om stadsförändring och transformering. Ordningen hus, parkering och busshållplats kan ändras. Kollektivtrafiken kan främjas i staden och prioriteras i stadsbebyggelsen.
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- Stojanovski, Todor
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City information modeling (CIM) and urbanism : Blocks, connections, territories, people and situations
- 2013
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Ingår i: SimAUD '13 Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture & Urban Design. - : Society for Computer Simulation International. ; , s. 86-93
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The urban theory is voluminous body of knowledge. There is a kaleidoscope of urban definitions and standpoints, but there are no tools that capture the variegated viewpoints and representations in urbanism. In this article I look at different urban theories, discourses and representations in architecture, sociology, geography, economy, transportation, computer science in order to conceptualize city information modeling (CIM). CIM is conceived and discussed as a system of blocks with dynamic relations or connections that define and redefine territories. The urban life today is a sequence of temporally inhabited and interconnected spaces, movable or fixed. The connections between spaces inspire or inhibit contacts and interactions between people. They bend times and continuously shape and reshape spaces, sociabilities and situations. In architecture there was an evolution from computer-aided design (CAD) to building information modeling (BIM), but in urbanism, where the geographic information systems (GIS) dominate, there is no such analogy.
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- Stojanovski, Todor, 1976-
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City Information Modelling (CIM) and Urban Design : Morphological Structure, Design Elements and Programming Classes in CIM
- 2018
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Ingår i: Computing for a better tomorrow -. - Lodz, Poland : Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. ; , s. 507-516
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In architecture, there was an evolution from Computer-Aided Design (CAD) to Building Information Modelling (BIM), but in urban planning and design, where the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are often used, there is no such analogy. This paper reviews research in typo-morphology, a branch of urban morphology, procedural modelling of buildings and cities and 3D city modelling and visualizations. It present a generic morphological structure of urban elements and discusses them as programming classes in City Information Modelling (CIM) and the application of CIM in urban design practice. Urban design can be understood as art of juxtaposing and arranging urban design elements such as streets, sidewalks, buildings, building façades, landscaping, etc. Designing implies experimentation and play for design elements within design worlds. CIM should integrate procedural modelling, urban morphological research with toolboxes of design elements and rules of combinations. CIM should serve as digital design worlds where urban designers can play with design elements, model and analyse urban scenarios with generative procedures, rules and typological processes.
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- Stojanovski, Todor, et al.
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Convexity and Imageability Convex Maps and Urban (Space) Envelopes
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings 13th International Space Syntax Symposium, SSS 2022. - : Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL).
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban spaces are defined by degrees of axial and convex extension. Space Syntax research has predominantly emphasized axial lines and maps and considered convexity through isovists and visibility graphs. Axiality emphasizes movement or flow and creates axial maps as two-dimensional networks. Convexity of urban space is aural and shaped by vision and sound in three dimensions. It is represented by convex maps of stretchable polygons (described furthermore by an adjacency scene graph within the polygons) and remain fuzzy conceptualizations because of their property as three-dimensional objects. Kevin Lynch's morphology of imageability and Michael Southworth’s soundscapes can be used to create diagrammatic representations of convex spaces as townscape representations. This paper explores the convergence of Space Syntax and imageability, soundscape and townscape theories for analysing three dimensional urban spaces in two dimensional representations. The ‘urban envelope’ creates an assemblage of building façade and street sections as fronts and empty spaces as voids surrounding one viewshed. The viewshed like an isovist or visibility graph on map depicts convexity, but with an image collage of fronts and voids (surrounding buildings and streets) distorted on a map. The urban envelope is used as an urban design drawing board in a new software for City Information Modelling (CIM) that is under development. This paper aims to inspire synergetic ways to juxtapose morphological and urban design traditions to discuss applications of morphological theories and urban design practices.
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- Stojanovski, Todor, 1976-
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Enriching the aggregated approach in transportation research : a morphological perspective on cities and mobility
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The cities are urban mosaics. The urban life today is a sequence of temporally inhabited and interconnected spaces, movable or fixed. The connections between spaces inspire or inhibit contacts and interactions between people. They bend times and continuously shape and reshape spaces, sociabilities and situations. The neighborhoods are agglomerations of individuals and buildings, but they are also perplexed individuals with own life, countenance and history. They are complex social and physical phenomena, products of unique social and technological conditions of its age, entangling architectural styles and transport modes. Much research has been done about urban mosaics of neighborhoods in urban morphology. How can we apply the conceptualizations in urban morphology to refine the research approach and methodology on the interaction between transportation and cities? Can we use the historical regularities in physical form and social perceptions on neighborhoods to enrich the aggregated approach in transportation research?
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- Stojanovski, Todor, et al.
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Flexible Parking : a Model for Calculating Parking Norms Based on Urban Form and Accessibility Factors
- 2020
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Ingår i: SimAUD 2020. - : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden enacted ambitious environmental goals to mitigate climate change and cut carbon emissions. Swedish public agencies have promoted restricting parking norms to decrease automobile travel. This paper proposes a model to calculate flexible parking norms based on urban form and accessibility factors commonly used in architectural, urban design and planning practices. The transportation systems like the automobile need physical preconditions such as parking spaces and motorways that support driving around. The rationale is that parking norms can be lowered to zero if the urban form supports sustainable mobility choices, namely walking, cycling and public transportation. The model aims to inform municipality officials and developers, architects, urban designers and planners about urban form preconditions and integration with walking, cycling and public transportation as possibilities to reduce parking requirements and meet sustainable mobility goals.
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- Stojanovski, Todor
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How density, diversity, land use and neighborhood type influences bus mobility in the swedish city of karlstad : Mixing spatial analytic and typo-morphological approaches to assess the indirect effect of urban form on travel
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Transport and Land Use. - : University of Minnesota. - 1938-7849. ; 11:1, s. 769-789
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the research on the effect of urban form on travel, a set of D-variables (density, diversity, design, destination accessibility, etc.) describes land use. Typo-morphology studies the historical emergence and evolution of urban patterns and their elements. In the typo-morphological approach, land use is an underlying element of neighborhood type. Neighborhood type defines urban areas that are relatively similar according to a range of attributes, such as building types, lot sizes, street layouts and land uses. This paper juxtaposes these two approaches to investigate the effect of density and diversity, land use and neighborhood type on bus mobility in the Swedish city of Karlstad. The results show that the number of residents and jobs in standard 400-meter walksheds around bus stops explains a third of the variation in bus ridership, which corresponds to previous studies in Sweden. The scatter plots with neighborhood types indicate that bus patronage variables and the D-variables cluster in intervals. This information about ranges and maximums in bus patronage in different neighborhood types is particularly important for urban designers and planners who work with typologies, form-based codes (FBCs) or transit-oriented development (TOD).
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