Yahia, Moohammed Wasim Mushtaha, Emad Yassin, Samar Adel AlFoudari, Kawthar Ahmad Atoum, Yasmeen Adnan Opoku, Alex Dirar, Samir Maksoud, Aref Mohamad
Published in
Frontiers in Built Environment
Considering cohousing as a new typology in the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) housing market is a challenge due to the cultural and societal dimensions. However, the variety of societies in the Emirates reflecting various habits, experiences, and traditions can allow testing such new types of housing which can be adapted to the local context, consider...
Harteveld, Maurice (author) van den Brink, T.M. (author) Tsigoni, Fotini (author)
Urban Design / History, Form & Aesthetics
Livingstone, Nicola Short, Michael Fiorentino, Stefania Bunce, Susannah
Published in
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
Pavlic, Marina
Okolico mesta Petrinje je konec decembra 2020 prizadel najbolj unicujoc potres na Hrvaškem v zadnjih 100 letih, ki je za seboj pustil ogromno materialno škodo na že tako slabše razvitem podrocju. Dve leti po naravni katastrofi se prenova še vedno caka. Cas je za prekinitev tišine, posledico velike katastrofe. Med številnimi objekti, poškodovanimi v...
Short, Michael Fiorentino, Stefania Bunce, Susannah Livingstone, Nicola
Peer reviewed: True
matthys;, mario
Public space design processes are complex. Numerous preconditions and the involvement of stakeholders impede rapid decision making. Two-dimensional drawings remain the norm, although these are difficult for citizen stakeholders to understand. Public space designers rarely use 3D city models, infrastructure building information modeling, digital twi...
Gerlich, Donne (author)
In recent decades, gender inequality has been discussed increasingly in different fields of society. Since long ago, aspects like power dynamics in traditional households, or studies on the human anatomy, have influenced men and women’s place in society. This gender inequality has also impacted how cities have been designed by and for men, although...
Fenten, Huub (author)
In São Paulo, Brazil, the urbanization of workers without education or a steady income has caused a large demand for social housing, with 800,000 families forced to live in settlements and slums without a legal basis. At the same time, the crime rates of the past decades brought forth a standard of ‘enclavement’ of urban blocks, with fences protect...
Kim, Byoungjun Troxel, Wendy M Dubowitz, Tamara Hunter, Gerald P Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie Chaix, Basile Rudolph, Kara E Morrison, Christopher N Branas, Charles C Duncan, Dustin T
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Published in
American journal of epidemiology
In the present study, we examined the associations between physical characteristics of neighborhoods and sleep health outcomes and assessed the mediating role of physical activity in these associations. A longitudinal study (the Pittsburgh Hill/Homewood Research on Eating, Shopping, and Health (PHRESH) Zzz Study; n = 1,051) was conducted in 2 low-i...
Panavaitė, Lina
Townscape research in the context of urban morphology research is a new direction. To understand the scope and need of research, first, you need to answer the question of what townscape is and how it can be understood in the context of research of various directions, what is the object being studied. It is important to understand why there was a ne...
