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  2. List of building types - Wikipedia

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    Class A or 4-star building: Rents in the top 30-40% of the local market; well-located; above-average upkeep and management; usually older than a trophy/5-star building; Class B or 3-star building: Rents between Class A and Class C; fair-to-good locations; average upkeep and management

  3. Typology (urban planning and architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Typology is the study and classification of object types. In urban planning and architecture , typology refers to the task of identifying and grouping buildings and urban spaces according to the similarity of their essential characteristics.

  4. Building typology - Wikipedia

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    Buildings in Back Bay constitute one or two very common building types of the period. Note that the materials and styles can be very different on the same types. Building typology refers to building and documenting buildings according to their essential characteristics. In architectural discourse, typological classification tends to focus on ...

  5. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Each time it is revived, it is different. Vernacular architecture works slightly differently and is listed separately. It is the native method of construction used by local people, usually using labour-intensive methods and local materials, and usually for small structures such as rural cottages.

  6. Morphology (architecture and engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Translated to modern English as durability, utility and beauty. Archaeologists have studied the ruins of ancient cities such as Mesopotamia, Egypt and Minoan to show evidence that urban planning dates back to the Bronze Age, through visible patterns of paved streets lined in right angles. Originally, town planning was used as a mechanism for ...

  7. Three generations of human rights - Wikipedia

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    The division of human rights into three generations was initially proposed in 1979 by the Czech jurist Karel Vasak at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He used the term at least as early as November 1977. [1] Vasak's theories have primarily taken root in European law.

  8. Land-use planning - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, based on the recommendations of the United Nations in its Habitat conference, land is assigned a high importance for the development of human life as it is the fundamental support for its permanence and development, this being the most important objective of the policy of human settlements. That is, the land resource is recognized as an ...

  9. CIRI Human Rights Data Project - Wikipedia

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    From 2004 to 2014, the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project annually rated the level of government respect for a variety of internationally recognized human rights. The final CIRI data set contains quantitative indicators of 15 human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981 to 2011. The CIRI data were used in over 170 ...