greenwich millennium village
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New technology and innovation at Greenwich Millennium Village
Greenwich Millennium Village next to the Millennium Dome in London is a showcase for innovations in sustainable and efficient construction. The PS250 million development of nearly 1400 homes and commercial units features its own web site, a combined heat and power plant, modular bathrooms and plant rooms, water saving devices and low embodied energy materials. It is being procured over a five year programme through sophisticated partnering arrangements and the first residents move in later this year. This paper describes the technical aspects of the innovations introduced on the project.
Robert Hodkinson
130522666
THE SURVEY OF THE URBAN SPACE: NEW PATTERN A CASE STUDY OF GREENWICH MILLENNIUM VILLAGE, LONDON, U.K.
Urban spaces form main dynamic spaces of cities and towns. Different disciplines have theorized urban spaces and have heavily shed some light on the process or nature of the urban spaces, but the concept of the urban spaces is highly unknown yet and the gap between urban theories and practices is not clear too. The aim of this article is to propose a conceptual pattern for surveying and analyzing the urban spaces to decrease the gap between theory and practice based on the real world. This article is consisted of two parts. In first part, it aims to propose a conceptual pattern which is named Sustainable Socio Spatial Pattern to survey and analyse the urban spaces. In the second part, it has been applied in Greenwich Millennium Village, a major development in London city, U.K. So, this article has resulted a conceptual pattern in at least two approaches: Process and Substance which can apply in complex and multi layered urban spaces.
Maghsoudi Maliheh
110304692
Power for the Millennium Project at Greenwich
As the new millennium approaches, Britain's most prestigious project to celebrate this special occasion is well under way. The Millennium Exhibition at Greenwich is ambitious by any standards. The Dome, which is 320 metres in diameter and is big enough to accommodate two Wembley Stadiums, is the largest structure of its type in the world. All works from commencement to completion will be erected within just two and a half years. In addition, a new urban village designed to the highest environmental standards is currently being constructed on the Greenwich Peninsula south of the Dome. This paper describes how London Electricity designed, planned and implemented extensive civil and electrical works in order to meet the unique requirements of the Millennium Exhibition and the Greenwich Peninsula development. (4 pages)
Graham Scott
129277373
Greenwich achieving a lasting millennium legacy
In just ten years, the London Borough of Greenwich has turned itself from one of Britain's most derelict and impoverished urban areas to one of its most flourishing.The gradual disappearance of major riverside employers such as the Royal Arsenal and British Gas led to the loss of 150 000 jobs by the 1980s and a legacy of over 400 ha of derelict and contaminated land.This paper describes the circumstances which led to the formation of the Greenwich Waterfront Development Partnership in 1991, with aims of attracting flagship projects, creating greater accessibility, developing Greenwich peninsula and securing a lasting legacy for the people of Greenwich.The Dome, the Jubilee Line and the Millennium Village are just three examples of how effective the partnership has been.
D W McCollum
96477296
Greenwich Meanings: Clocks and Things in Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction
The clock inside the Gare du Nord read 11:17: Paris time minus five minutes, Belgian railway time plus four minutes, mid Europe time minus 56 minutes. To Melanie, who had forgotten her travelling clock who had forgotten everything the hands might have stood anywhere By the cover of Le Soleil, the Orleanist morning paper, it was 24 July 1913. Louis Philippe Robert, duc d'Orleans, was the current Pretender. Certain quarters of Paris raved under the heat of Sirius Melanie l'Heuremaudit was driven away down the rue La Fayette in a noisy auto taxi. Historical stresses underlying much twentieth century fiction are to be found in Chapter 14 of Thomas Pynchon's V. not least in the strange chronology described in its opening, quoted above, and echoed in Melanie's second name, which translates as 'the accursed hour'[1] Typically of Pynchon's fiction, those clocks seem odd but have a firm historical basis. In A la recherche du temps perdu, Proust also refers to the survival of mid European time, and even the Eastern calendar, into the early decades of the twentieth century. Within France, to help tardy travellers catch their trains, station clocks in 1913 still kept 'l'heure de la gare' five minutes slower, as Pynchon suggests, than the 'Paris time' shown on all the capital's other clocks. Belgian trains, on the other hand, still ran exactly on Brussels time, which differed from that of Paris in the early years of the century. Melanie's loss of her travelling clock at least saves her the irritation of having to reset it in the course of her journey from Belgium, a task often necessary for railway travellers in the nineteenth century and, as Pynchon shows, into the early part of the twentieth, at least on the Continent. Travelling clocks of a different sort had already ended this problem within Britain. Railway companies in the mid nineteenth century sent officials with accurate chronometers up and down the country, resetting station clocks to eliminate local times in favour of a national standard, Railway Time, established more or less throughout the land by 1848. It was further institutionalized as part of the new global standards set up by the International Meridian Conference of 1884, which answered the needs of travel, shipping, telegraphy, and other commercial interests by placing the Prime Meridian at Greenwich Observatory, also established as the centre of a world wide system of time zones and Mean Time. Contemporary public interest in the new arrangements is evident in Arthur Wing Pinero's The Magistrate, first performed the year after the Conference: when asked about the time, its hero cheerfully replies 'Hurray! Just half past ten. Greenwich mean, eh Guv? Ulysses (1922) shows Bloom pondering in 1904 the technology through which the new standard time was disseminated throughout the British Isles when he notices a Dublin time signal 'that falls at Greenwich time. It's the clock is worked by an electric wire from Dunsink'[2] Ireland, however, did not fully accept Greenwich Mean Time until 1916, and other countries were similarly tardy, France particularly. For patriotic reasons, France had always favoured Paris over Greenwich as the location of the Prime Meridian, and was consequently dilatory and eventually devious in implementing the new arrangements. GMT was legally accepted as the time of France in 1896, but it was not until fifteen years later that much was done to implement it, and even then only by referring to it as 'Paris time minus nine minutes and twenty one seconds' hence that nine minute difference from Brussels, working on GMT since 1892, which Pynchon identifies.[3] Indeed, France's official time continued to be defined in this way until 1978, when it moved to Co ordinated Universal Time, a measure (now generally accepted as the world standard at the end of the twentieth century) originally owing less to British efforts than to further conferences on time initiated by the French in Paris in 1912 and 1913.
Randall Stevenson
109274421
The social dimension of the urban village: A comparison of models for sustainable urban development
The paper explores the social dimension of the urban village debate, by examining recent ideas on the desirable social characteristics of sustainable urban development. Three recent examples of the debate on urban sustainability are analysed: the report of the British government's Urban Task Force, Towards an Urban Renaissance; the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods Initiative, based in Manchester; and the scheme for the Greenwich Millennium Village, in London. Based on a study of their respective publications, a comparison is made of general principles, social objectives, and built form proposals. These are evaluated in the light of sociological theories of changes in the nature of communities, and three distinct types of community are identified: traditional, modern, and postmodern. The long term pattern of social and cultural change is found to be markedly at variance with the stated aims of the three examples, and the question of how this might affect the outcome of urban village projects is considered.
T S Brindley
155660751
Art and Urban Space: Rent, the East Village, and the Construction of Meaning
Art has an immediate relationship to urban space. From alternative, activist art rooted in the neighborhood to prestige associated art in museums and galleries, art is spatially defi ned by its interaction with its setting, and implicated, to varying degrees, in the culture industry. Artists are mobile on the spectrum of spatially defi ned prestige and value. From the space of anonymous, nonprofi t, neighborhood oriented cultural work to the space of the fame profi t and institution oriented culture industry, artists can hope to move, and this hope often sustains their labor. The value and meaning of art is contextually defi ned by its place in the fi eld of display (neighborhood, alternative space, mainstream museum, gallery, theatre, movie theatre, or DVD, among others) Thus, art is implicated in "the processes of capitalist valorization," even when presented as an autonomous circuit for "the constitution of communities and collective subjectivities." Art making is affective, immaterial labor that is, "labor that produces an immaterial good, such as a service, knowledge, or communication" with its focus on "the creation and manipulation of affects," and its ultimately intangible products: "a feeling of ease, well being, satisfaction, excitement, passion even a sense of connectedness or community." As the immaterial labor "in its various guises (informational, affective, communica
Naomi Tonooka
151898410
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition
Stephen Jay Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium. He looks at the origins of the term in the Biblical prophecies of the Book of Revelation if the six ages of man date from 4000BC, will 2000AD signify the end of time? Gould describes how the meaning of the word has evolved to its present day usage and tackles the debate over whether the millennium ends in 1999 or at the end of 2000AD. He also questions the human compulsion to impose our time schemes on the universe and wonders how far can we go in applying our mathematical principles to nature. Existing methods of calculating time are all flawed to some extent and yet the complexities of lunar months, leap years, and the calculation of dates such as Easter, are part and parcel of our fascination with calendrics as both a hobby and an occupation.
S Gould
129168341
PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEOLANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF GREENWICH BAY REGION, RI
A paleoenvironmental and paleolandscape reconstruction of two separate sites in the Greenwich Bay region of RI was completed for use in the Paleocultural Landscapes Project. Investigations of a lacustrine sediment record in Warwick, RI were completed in order to develop a regional paleoenvironmental reference record. Investigations of the acoustic sub bottom record in Greenwich Bay, RI were completed in order to develop paleolandscape reconstructions of the observed depositional environments for future use in an archaeological site prediction model. For Chapter one, we took a single sediment core from Gorton Pond, Warwick, RI in the summer of 2013 for the purpose of developing a regional paleoenvironmental reference record. The core was dated using both AMS radiocarbon dating of four terrestrial macrofossil samples, and correlations with a radiometric/pollen age model from a surface core taken from Gorton Pond for a previous study. The oldest terrestrial macrofossil was a spruce cone dated to ~12,100 calendar years BP, but an estimated 18,000 years of sediment is in the Gorton Pond record, based on bracketing ages from dated recessional moraines in the region. However, we only sampled an estimated 16,000 years, based on a Younger Dryas transition of 13, 000 BP. Physical, magnetic, and elemental/isotopic (C, N, S, D/H) proxy measurements were made, and six distinct environmental zones were interpreted. The Gorton Pond record indicates significant changes in lake productivity and temperature. The Late Pleistocene Deglacial Period (16.0 13.0 ky BP) is indicated by low OC% high concentrations of magnetic material, and terrestrially sourced organic matter. The Younger Dryas chronozone was observed (13.0 11.8 kyr BP) as large decreases in
Cameron E Morissette
162279578
Trials and Errors at the Turn of the Millennium: On The Human Stain and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
The remarkable parallels between J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) and Philip Roth's The Human Stain (2000) raise numerous considerations. Why does each author launch his novel with a college crucible? How is the sudden transformation of a respected professor representative of Western civilization at the end of the twentieth century? This essay approaches such questions by examining specific instances of their shared resemblance.
Daniel L Medin