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SUMMARY:The Birth and Life of Buildings: High-Resolution Analysis of Histo
 rical Building Trends through the Digitised Municipal Archive of Tel Aviv-
 Yafo - Elad Horn\, Or Aleksandrowicz\, Daniel Rosenberg\, Ido Baum
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DESCRIPTION:The built environment constantly changes as buildings are cons
 tructed\, repaired\, renovated\, remodelled\, refurnished\, reconstructed\
 , and demolished. But while we know from everyday experience that building
  existence is a temporal phenomenon\, systematically defining what ac-tion
 s amount to the construction of a new building or its demise is not as str
 aightforward as one could expect. This blurriness in definitions was ackno
 wledged in recent studies on building age prediction and heritage discours
 e in spatial humanities (Ferreira-Lopes & Pinto-Puerto\, 2018\; Li et al.\
 , 2018\; Sun et al.\, 2022\; Zeppelzauer et al.\, 2018)\, including a stud
 y that noted that “[w]hile it is one of the key building attributes […
 ]\, the year of construction of a building has not been given much attenti
 on in practice and research” (Biljecki & Sindram\, 2017\, p. 22). When a
 ttempting to investigate large databases of building information to explor
 e the historical transformations of a city's physical development\, this c
 onceptual blurriness becomes a genuine impediment to extracting meaningful
  and reliable quantitative insights. Without clearly and consistently defi
 ning the moments of “birth” and “change” of most buildings in such
  databases\, analysing the historical trends embodied in them stands on sh
 aky grounds.\nIn this study\, we explored the theoretical ambiguities\, bl
 urry definitions\, and technical challenges that complicate the seemingly 
 straight-forward definition of major moments in a building’s life\, both
  within academic discourse and across professional and regulatory domains 
 (Figure 1). We then attempted to distil coherent definitions of a building
 ’s moment of inception that may serve as a strong indicator for signific
 ant construction activity concentrated on a single building plot. In defin
 ing this moment\, the proposed system considers a building’s visual ap-p
 earance\, impact on the built landscape\, and structural integrity as the 
 most important spatial variables that indicate significant construction ac
 tivity. Consequently\, we suggest determining a building’s moment of “
 birth” based on the type of certification documents contained in mu-nici
 pal building files\, highlighting the significance of carefully studying t
 he local properties of building certification systems in large-scale and h
 igh-resolution analyses of building stock trends.  \nThis study presents a
  reproducible ontological formulation defining a building's moments of “
 birth” to support large-scale\, high-resolution historical analysis of c
 onstruction trends and cycles. The study also aims to rectify a critical g
 ap in the methodological foundations of architectural historiography that 
 has direct implications within the broader domain of the spatial humanitie
 s. This gap impedes different types of diachronic analysis of the evolutio
 n of the built environment\, especially when studying how the ups and down
 s in the economy affect the building stock. To explore the coherence\, pra
 cticality\, and challenges of the suggested methodology\, we applied it to
  the historical analysis of a large dataset of planning and construction d
 ocuments archived and digitised by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality’s Engi
 neering Administra-tion. Based on the documents’ classifications\, we au
 tomatically extracted years of increased building activities on each plot 
 to recreate the city’s timeline of construction and expansion.
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