Class Diagram - Ontology of Urban Infrastructure
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These buildings may include any building or part of a building where a group of people gathers for recreation, amusement, social, religious, or such types of purposes such as theaters, assembly halls, exhibition halls, restaurants, museums, club rooms, auditoria, etc. |
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integrates blue areas, such as lakes, aquifers, wetlands, floodplains,
canals, and coastal areas, to the urban context. |
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Building Green or Green Construction encompasses a set of practices and principles that aim to make the design and utilization of the built environment as environmentally friendly as possible. These practices minimize the negative impact on the natural environment. |
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It is any building type or part of a building that is used for business transactions, keeping records of accounts, town halls, city halls, courthouses, etc. |
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These buildings include any building used for school, college, or daycare purposes involving assembly for instruction, education, or recreation. |
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The physical support of transport modes, where routes (e.g. rail tracks, canals, or highways) and terminals (e.g. ports or airports). |
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It is a fusion of natural resources and man-made structures (grey infrastructure) designed to work with the nature to provide social, environmental, and economic benefits to urban populations, such as air filtration, temperature regulation, noise reduction, flood control, and recreational areas. | ||
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A Grey Building is one built with a traditional structure with walls and a roof standing more or less permanently in one place. For example a house or factory. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter, living space, privacy & security, to store materials, workspace, etc. In this model, grey building are classified by its functionality/occupancy (the use of a structure: for housing, for educational, etc.) based on Table 6 of GEM Building Taxonomy combined with the building taxonomy proposed in NBC 2005.
In additional, Grey Building is classified by its structure based on GEM Building Taxonomy, following 13 attributes have been included in the GEM Building Taxonomy Version 2.0 (v2.0): 1. direction 2. material of the lateral load-resisting system 3. lateral load-resisting system 4. height 5. date of construction or retrofit 6. occupancy 7. building position within a block 8. shape of the building plan 9. structural irregularity 10. exterior walls 11. roof 12. floor 13. foundation system.
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It is a category of all tangible/physical elements that are (mostly) of atrophic origin (that is, artificial), in other words, engineered assets that provide one or multiple services required by society. This is in turn preliminary subdivided into Urban Elements (e.g., buildings, bridges, rails, roads, streets, and public spaces) and Urban Networks (a composition of these urban elements). |
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It is the built environment, the physical connections between places that move people, materials, information, and energy. These "fixed" things include roads, railroads, pipes, buildings, cables, and the networks composed of these constructions. Moreover, encompasses the green infrastructure, which is a category of ecological-oriented designed structures, i.e., a combination of grey and green infrastructures; and the Blue Infrastructure defined as the blue areas, a mix of natural resources (rivers, sea, beaches, etc) and human-designed elements. |
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These types of buildings include any building which is used for storage, handling, manufacturing, or processing of highly combustible explosive materials or products that are liable to burn extremely rapidly, which may produce poisonous fumes. |
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These buildings include any building or part which is used for medical treatment etc. Such as Hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages, sanatoria, jails, prisons, mental hospitals, etc. |
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These types of building are mainly used for manufacturing purposes. Here products or materials of all kinds and properties are fabricated, assembled, or processed, for example, gas plants, refineries, mills, dairies, etc. |
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These shall include buildings used for soap, markets, stores, wholesale or retail. |
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Mobile element of transportation or modes represent the conveyances, mostly taking the form of vehicles used to support the mobility of passengers or freight. Some modes are designed to carry only passengers or freight, while others can carry both.
See https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter1/what-is-transport-geography/core-components-transportation/ |
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A building should be considered a residential building when more than half of the floor area is employed for dwelling purposes. Other buildings should be considered non-residential. A residential building is one that is designed and accordingly built for inhabitants to measure in and call House. Inhabitants can either be a family, single, a couple, roommates or may be in a group. A residential building has basically:
All of those functions can either be in shared rooms or spaces or have exclusive rooms per function. These types of buildings include one or two private dwellings, apartment houses (flats), bungalows, duplexes, storey houses, terrace buildings, apartment buildings, condominium buildings, hotels, dormitories, semi-detached buildings, etc. |
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Soft infrastructure refers to the intangible things needed to maintain or improve the utilities and services such as financial, health, cultural, and social in an urban system. The population uses the infrastructure of an urban system through services offered by public or private agents. | ||
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These buildings are generally used for the storage or sheltering of goods, wares, or merchandise like warehouses, cold storages, garages, stables, transit sheds, etc. |
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Transportation Network is a conglomerate of heterogeneous urban elements, such as roads, streets, paths, railways, bridges, etc., used for the mobility or transportation of goods and people. |
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It refers to the land within the urban development boundary designated for small-scale farming activities and growing crops for personal use or sale in surrounding markets. This encompasses vertical production, warehouse farms, community gardens, rooftop farms, hydroponics, aeroponic, and aquaponic facilities, as well as other innovative techniques. |
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It is a category of constructed items encompassing buildings, bridges, roads, footpaths, streets, rails, and other related infrastructures. |
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Consists of urban elements that are used for transportation of people and goods, including fixed infrastructure (e.g. bridges, roads, highways) and mobile element of transportation (e.g., cars, trains, plains, etc). |
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Urban green space refers to open areas reserved for parks and natural environments - encompassing plant life. The landscape of urban open spaces typically ranges from playing fields and highly maintained environments to more natural landscapes. It links ecological processes and functions and encompasses forests, roadside trees, park trees, garden trees, and nature conservation areas. In the context of urban land-use growth and its impact on the environment, green spaces offer ecosystem services to promote human health. Green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and roadside trees are vital components of urban planning.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/land10020105 |
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Urban infrastructure is a mix of structures built horizontally or vertically by humans, which provide a variety of utilities and services such as housing, transportation, and leisure. The design of these structures serves to ensure accessibility and convenience to meet the needs of the urban dwellers. |
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It is an ordered composition of heterogeneous urban structures, arranged according to their application in an urban system, e.g., a transportation network. |
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It is a system of engineered hydrologic and hydraulic components that provide water supply for an urban system. | ||
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