Journal
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
Volume 113, Issue -, Pages 19-29Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.01.012
Keywords
Architecture; Climate; Desert; GIS; Soil mechanics; Subsidence
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The paper reviews the dynamic relations between geology, soil mechanics, planning and construction in a desert environment. It claims that misunderstanding environmental processes, disregarding geological properties and climatic uncertainties, while planning for construction and development, can have decisive outcomes of potentially catastrophic implications, such as destabilizing the very terrain on which a project is built. To make this point, it reviews the evolution of a relatively small settlement located in the arid Negev Desert Highlands, Israel, and the way this has affected the very cliff on which it is built. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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