Journal articles: 'Built environments'

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Pieris, Anoma, and Duanfang Lu. "Mapping Asian Built Environments." Fabrications 29, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 115–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2019.1536939.

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Winn, William, Hunter Hoffman, Ari Hollander, Kimberley Osberg, Howard Rose, and Patti Char. "Student-Built Virtual Environments." Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 8, no. 3 (June 1999): 283–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/105474699566233.

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Students in grades four through twelve from fourteen schools learned to build their own immersive virtual environments (VEs). This required them to decide on the theme of their VE, to determine what objects to place in it and what behaviors these objects would exhibit, to model their objects using CAD software, to specify the form and function of the VE for professional programmers to use as they assembled the VE, and to perform assigned tasks when they visited the VE. Although the level and nature of student activity varied from school to school, the students were generally very successful. The VEs they constructed revealed a great deal about how they constructed an understanding of the content their VE represented. Data from a questionnaire showed that they enjoyed building and visiting their VE, and that their enjoyment, ability to work in the VE, success, and their sense of presence were all interrelated. Data from a small subset of students showed that building a VE improved low-ability students' (but not high-ability students') understanding of the VE's content. These findings were interpreted within a framework built from constructivist theories of learning and understanding.

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Gibberd, Jeremy. "Sustainable African Built Environments." African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 5, no. 4 (August 2013): 313–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2013.809277.

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Soukup S. J., Paul A. "Ideas and built environments." Explorations in Media Ecology 17, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 247–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eme.17.3.247_1.

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Nelson, Melissa C., Penny Gordon-Larsen, Yan Song, and Barry M. Popkin. "Built and Social Environments." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 31, no. 2 (August 2006): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2006.03.026.

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Heydarian, Arsalan, Joao P. Carneiro, David Gerber, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Timothy Hayes, and Wendy Wood. "Immersive virtual environments versus physical built environments: A benchmarking study for building design and user-built environment explorations." Automation in Construction 54 (June 2015): 116–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2015.03.020.

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Lake, Amelia, and Tim Townshend. "Obesogenic environments: exploring the built and food environments." Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 126, no. 6 (November 2006): 262–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1466424006070487.

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Das, Kanu Kumar, Rezuana Islam, and Mainak Ghosh. "Harmonizing Natural and Built Environments." International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development 13, no. 1 (January 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsesd.287121.

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At the moment urban agglomeration sees how cities grow and expand within a shorter period by overlooking the existence of natural eco-system. Natural and built components of the urban environment are the main focal point for sustainable development strategies of a city. Unfortunately, economic pressure being the major driving force of our cities development always cater for high dry-land considering wet areas like a wetland, canals, khals, lowlands, water reservoir etc. as backward and primitive. Wetland and water-related resources all over the world are given less priority which is acute in urban areas and Bangladesh is not an exception. Water and water-related resources are not maintained properly resulting continuous deterioration of wetlands and water bodies. Considering Ananya R/A, Chittagong, a developing residential area on wetland, as study site this paper aims at acknowledging some ideologies of development in a wetland which will contribute to enriching the natural environment of the area by introducing chemistry of land-water-ecology.

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Nute, Kevin, and Zhuo Job Chen. "Temporal Cues in Built Environments." International Journal of the Constructed Environment 9, no. 1 (2018): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2154-8587/cgp/v09i01/1-18.

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Muratovski, Gjoko. "Built Environments and National Identities." International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design 8, no. 1 (2014): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2325-1662/cgp/v08i01/38319.

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Brown, Stephen K. "Bushfires and indoor built environments." Indoor and Built Environment 27, no. 2 (February 2018): 145–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1420326x18758095.

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Chandrabose, Manoj, Nicolette R. den Braver, Neville Owen, Takemi Sugiyama, and Nyssa Hadgraft. "Built Environments and Cardiovascular Health." Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention 42, no. 6 (November 2022): 416–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/hcr.0000000000000752.

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Salama, Ashraf M., and Yonca Hurol. "Polyphonic narratives for built environment research." Open House International 45, no. 1/2 (June 10, 2020): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-05-2020-0026.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to construct a series of narratives by assessing a selection of the key literature generated by Open House International (OHI) over a period of 15 years. The paper also presents a brief review of the latest developments of the journal while introducing concise observations on the articles published in this edition – Volume 45, Issues 1 and 2. Design/methodology/approach Through a classification procedure of selected special issues published by OHI since 2006, 10 issues were identified based on the currency of the issues they generated. Following the review of the editorials, the key content of more than 100 articles within these special issues, the content of this edition and relevant seminal literature, the analysis engages, through critical reflection, with various themes that echo the polyphonic nature of built environment research. Findings The analysis conveys the plurality and diversity in built environment research where generic types of narratives are established to include three categories, namely, leitmotif, contextual/conceptual and open-ended narratives. Each of which includes sub-narrative classifications. The leitmotif narrative includes design studio pedagogy, sustainable environments for tourism, responsive learning environments, affordable housing environments, diversity in urban environments and urbanism in globalised environments. The contextual/conceptual narrative encompasses architecture and urbanism in the global south and the tripartite urban performance and transformation. The open-ended narrative embraces thematic reflections on the contributions of this edition of OHI. Originality/value Constructing polyphonic narratives in built environment research based on contemporary knowledge is original in the sense of capturing the crux of the themes within these narratives and articulating this in a pithy form. The elocution of the narratives stimulates a sustained quest for re-thinking concepts, notions and issues of concerns while invigorating research prospects and setting the future direction of OHI.

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Hu, Ming, and Jennifer Roberts. "Built Environment Evaluation in Virtual Reality Environments—A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach." Urban Science 4, no. 4 (October 3, 2020): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci4040048.

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To date, the predominant tools for the evaluation of built environment quality and impact have been surveys, scorecards, or verbal comments—approaches that rely upon user-reported responses. The goal of this research project is to develop, test, and validate a data-driven approach for built environment quality evaluation/validation based upon measurement of real-time emotional responses to simulated environments. This paper presents an experiment that was conducted by combining an immersive virtual environment (virtual reality) and electroencephalogram (EEG) as a tool to evaluate Pre and Post Purple Line development. More precisely, the objective was to (a) develop a data-driven approach for built environment quality evaluation and (b) understand the correlation between the built environment characters and emotional state. The preliminary validation of the proposed evaluation method identified discrepancies between traditional evaluation results and emotion response indications through EEG signals. The validation and findings have laid a foundation for further investigation of relations between people’s general cognitive and emotional responses in evaluating built environment quality and characters.

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Kraftl, Peter, John Horton, and Faith Tucker. "Children, Young People and Built Environments." Built Environment 33, no. 4 (December 2, 2007): 399–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.33.4.399.

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Aletta, Francesco, and Arianna Astolfi. "Soundscapes of buildings and built environments." Building Acoustics 25, no. 3 (August 9, 2018): 195–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1351010x18793279.

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Chen, Peng, Qian Liu, and Feiyang Sun. "Bicycle parking security and built environments." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 62 (July 2018): 169–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2018.02.020.

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Könings, Karen D., and Susan McKenney. "Participatory design of (built) learning environments." European Journal of Education 52, no. 3 (August 3, 2017): 247–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12232.

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Townshend, Tim, and Amelia Lake. "Obesogenic environments: current evidence of the built and food environments." Perspectives in Public Health 137, no. 1 (January 2017): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757913916679860.

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Foster, G. T., D. E. N. Wenn, W. S. Harwin, and F. O'Hart. "Generating Virtual Environments to Allow Increased Access to the Built Environment." International Journal of Virtual Reality 3, no. 4 (January 1, 1998): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.20870/ijvr.1998.3.4.2630.

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The problems encountered by individuals with disabilities when accessing large public buildings is described and a solution based on the generation of virtual models of the built environment is proposed. These models are superimposed on a control network infrastructure, currently utilised in intelligent building applications such as lighting, heating and access control. The use of control network architectures facilitates the creation of distributed models that closely mirror both the physical and control properties of the environment. The model of the environment is kept local to the installation which allows the virtual representation of a large building to be decomposed into an interconnecting series of smaller models. This paper describes two methods of interacting with the virtual model, firstly a two dimensional aural representation that can be used as the basis of a portable navigational device. Secondly an augmented reality called DAMOCLES that overlays additional information on a user's normal field of view. The provision of virtual environments offers new possibilities in the man-machine interface so that intuitive access to network based services and control functions can be given to a user.

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Li, Bin, Weihong Guo, Xiao Liu, Yuqing Zhang, Peter John Russell, and Marc Aurel Schnabel. "Sustainable Passive Design for Building Performance of Healthy Built Environment in the Lingnan Area." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 14, 2021): 9115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13169115.

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Having a healthy built environment becomes increasingly important, especially under the effects of COVID-19. This paper intends to combine sustainable goals based on climate change with passive design principles to achieve a healthy built environment regarding the building performance of residential buildings. The Yuedao Residential Community in the Lingnan area was taken as an example for the research. Based on relevant standards of healthy buildings, the thermal, light, and acoustic environment requirements were determined. The methods of building performance simulation and on-site measurement were used to quantify the research object environments. Then, the outcomes were obtained based on these standards. As observed, the thermal environment’s adaptive thermal comfort level was level III. It was hot indoors, but the light and acoustic environments met the requirements. Building designs based on a built environment optimized by external shading systems aim to solve problems through building performance simulation and qualitative analysis. After optimization, the thermal environment improved. According to the literature review, this research focused on a healthy built environment with a sustainable passive design in terms of building performance. A research workflow was established that could be used for more practical research, with abundant research methods. The problems were solved to varying degrees, and the Lingnan architectural culture was preserved. Moreover, this research filled the gap in interactive research on healthy built environments with sustainable passive design regarding building performance.

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Azhar, Jasim, Morten Gjerde, Brenda Vale, and Muhammad Asif. "Perception of Urban Leftover Spaces: A Comparative Study of Built Environment and Non-Built Environment Participants." Architecture 2, no. 2 (April 7, 2022): 231–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/architecture2020013.

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The built environment, urban processes, and experience all work together to create the spatial environment of a city. Many urban spaces, especially those that appear to be ‘leftover’, do not reflect a set concept but are constantly questioned and recreated. Recognizing leftover spaces in an urban environment is an important aspect of the urban redevelopment process. Researchers have highlighted the difficulties, circumstances, and relevance of making good use of leftover space. To accomplish environmental and social benefits, these places can be created, changed, and incorporated into the main urban fabric; however, there is a scarcity of knowledge on how to go about constructing such environments. This study explores the visual perception of two groups of people, those with knowledge of the built environment and those with other educational backgrounds regarding leftover spaces in Wellington City. The research, which employs a mixed approach, consists of three studies, beginning with a visual preference study to better understand human perceptions, which might lead to better design solutions. The second study looked at differences in design preferences across the built environment and non-built environment participants. Finally, individuals from the built and non-built environments participants were invited to a focus group discussion for study three. To summarize, the findings demonstrated that adding vegetation is a crucial design feature. The findings refute the hypotheses of non-built environment specialists have different design perceptions for a built environment.

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Janzen, Cora, Josh Marko, and Michael Schwandt. "Embedding health equity strategically within built environments." Canadian Journal of Public Health 109, no. 4 (August 2018): 590–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17269/s41997-018-0116-8.

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Nesterova, Iana. "Degrowth Perspective for Sustainability in Built Environments." Encyclopedia 2, no. 1 (February 9, 2022): 466–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia2010029.

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Degrowth, as a social movement, a political project, and an academic paradigm, aims to find ways that can lead to harmonious co-existence between humanity and nature, between humans and non-humans, and within humanity, including oneself. Seen through the lens of degrowth, everything becomes subject to reflection, critique, re-evaluation, and re-imagining. This concerns environments created by humans in a long process of interaction with nature, i.e., built environments. Built environments are always in becoming. This entry contemplates the implications of degrowth for intentionally directing this becoming towards genuine sustainability.

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Ezeabasili, A., I. Iloghalu, B. Okoro, and I. Manafa. "Sustainable Urban Forestry in Nigerian Built Environments." Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 5, no. 7 (January 10, 2015): 524–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jsrr/2015/14613.

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Zhang, Jianchao, Boon-Chong Seet, and Tek Lie. "Building Information Modelling for Smart Built Environments." Buildings 5, no. 1 (January 26, 2015): 100–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings5010100.

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Beynon, David. "Defining Cultural Sustainability in Multicultural Built Environments." International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review 6, no. 5 (2010): 255–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1832-2077/cgp/v06i05/54822.

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Rasila, Heidi, Peggie Rothe, and Heidi Kerosuo. "Dimensions of usability assessment in built environments." Journal of Facilities Management 8, no. 2 (May 4, 2010): 143–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14725961011041189.

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Whitehead, Mark. "Eco-urbanity: Towards Well-mannered Built Environments." Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 12, no. 4 (December 2010): 432–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1523908x.2010.531083.

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Levi, Daniel, Sara Kocher, and Roger Aboud. "Technological Disasters in Natural and Built Environments." Environment and Behavior 33, no. 1 (January 2001): 78–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00139160121972873.

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Sidawi, Bhzad, and Mark Deakin. "Diabetes, built environments and (un)healthy lifestyles." Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 2, no. 3 (November 25, 2013): 311–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sasbe-05-2013-0025.

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Lovasi, G. S., M. A. Hutson, M. Guerra, and K. M. Neckerman. "Built Environments and Obesity in Disadvantaged Populations." Epidemiologic Reviews 31, no. 1 (July 9, 2009): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxp005.

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BROOKS, RODNEY, LIJIN ARYANANDA, AARON EDSINGER, PAUL FITZPATRICK, CHARLES C. KEMP, UNA-MAY O'REILLY, EDUARDO TORRES-JARA, PAULINA VARSHAVSKAYA, and JEFF WEBER. "SENSING AND MANIPULATING BUILT-FOR-HUMAN ENVIRONMENTS." International Journal of Humanoid Robotics 01, no. 01 (March 2004): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219843604000022.

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We report on a dynamically balancing robot with a dexterous arm designed to operate in built-for-human environments. Our initial target task was for the robot to navigate, identify doors, open them, and proceed through them.

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Odeleye, Dellé. "Eco-Urbanity: Towards Well-mannered Built Environments." European Planning Studies 18, no. 6 (June 2010): 1019–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654311003701563.

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Alizadeh, Tooran. "Eco-urbanity: towards well-mannered built environments." Australian Planner 47, no. 3 (September 2010): 216–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2010.509030.

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Dwyer, Tim. "Transforming Built Environments – Driving change with engineering." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 41, no. 3 (April 13, 2020): 231–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143624420916625.

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Kopitz, Linda. "Affective Architecture: Encountering Care in Built Environments." Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 42, no. 1 (December 8, 2022): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/krisis.42.1.37891.

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Between sprawling urban spheres and a return to the rural, between technological advancements and historical preservation, built environments become a productive sphere to explore imaginations of a shared future on a changing planet. At the same time, contemporary architectural writing appears to increasingly extend further than considering environmental care – particularly in relation to spaces and places frequently criticized for their ‘uncaring’ neoliberal politics. This article will argue that architecture is increasingly infused and saturated with affective connotations of care. Approaching global examples critically allows for a further exploration of the interdependency between spaces, places and communities that care. In this understanding, care becomes, quite literally, structural.

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Koohsari, Mohammad, Tomoki Nakaya, and Koichiro Oka. "Activity-Friendly Built Environments in a Super-Aged Society, Japan: Current Challenges and toward a Research Agenda." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 9 (September 19, 2018): 2054. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15092054.

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There is a growing recognition of the role of built environment attributes, such as streets, shops, greenways, parks, and public transportation stations, in supporting people’s active behaviors. In particular, surrounding built environments may have an important role in supporting healthy active aging. Nevertheless, little is known about how built environments may influence active lifestyles in “super-aged societies”. More robust evidence-based research is needed to identify how where people live influences their active behaviors, and how to build beneficial space in the context of super-aged societies. This evidence will also be informative for the broader international context, where having an aging society will be the inevitable future. This commentary sought to move this research agenda forward by identifying key research issues and challenges in examining the role of built environment attributes on active behaviors in Japan, which is experiencing the longest healthy life expectancy, but rapid “super-aging”, with the highest proportion of old adults among its population in the world.

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Streimikiene, Dalia. "Natural and built environments and quality of life in EU member states." JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 7, no. 3 (November 20, 2014): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.14254/2071-8330.2014/7-3/1.

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Ben-Shimol, Y., N. Blaunstein, and M. Sergeev. "DEPOLARIZATION EFFECTS OF RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION IN VARIOUS LAND BUILT–UP ENVIRONMENTS." Informatsionno-upravliaiushchie sistemy (Information and Control Systems) 74, no. 1 (February 2015): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.15217/issn1684-8853.2015.1.68.

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Parizeau, Kate, and Josh Lepawsky. "Legal orderings of waste in built spaces." International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 7, no. 1 (April 13, 2015): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlbe-01-2014-0005.

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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate by what means and to what ends waste, its materiality and its symbolic meanings are legally regulated in built environments. Design/methodology/approach – The authors investigate the entanglement of law and the built environment through an analysis of waste-related legal case studies in the Canadian context. They investigate a notable Supreme Court case and three examples of Canadian cities’ by-laws and municipal regulations (particularly regarding informal recycling practices). They mobilize what Valverde calls the work of jurisdiction in their analysis. Findings – The authors argue that the regulation of waste and wasting behaviours is meant to discipline relationships between citizens and governments in the built environment (e.g. mitigating nuisance, facilitating service provision and public health, making individuals more visible and legible in the eyes of the law and controlling and capturing material flows). They find that jurisdiction is used as a flexible and malleable legal medium in the interactions between law and the built environment. Thus, the material treatment of waste may invoke notions of constraint, freedom, citizenship, governance and cognate concepts and practices as they are performed in and through built environments. Waste storage containers appear to operate as black holes in that they evacuate property rights from the spaces that waste regularly occupies. Originality/value – There is scant scholarly attention paid to legal orderings of waste in built environments. This analysis reveals the particular ways that legal interventions serve to construct notions of the public good and the public sphere through orderings of waste (an inherently indeterminate object).

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Wey, Wann-Ming. "A Commentary on Sustainably Built Environments and Urban Growth Management." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (October 26, 2018): 3898. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10113898.

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The concept of urban growth management first emerged in the United States in the 1950s. Its goal was to solve problems stemming from urban sprawl by applying integrated planning, management, and regulation, and to adjust to different development trends in different spaces and times. From the viewpoint of the studies on the link between sustainably built environments, urban growth management, and their interactions, this special issue includes theoretical and empirical studies on sustainable built environment planning and design, sustainable growth management strategies, and other related emerging topics, such as intelligent use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to sustainably build environments, as well as smart cities research with big data, data mining, cloud computing, and internet of things (IOT) ideas.

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Luke, T. W. "At the End of Nature: Cyborgs, ‘Humachines’, and Environments in Postmodernity." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 29, no. 8 (August 1997): 1367–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a291367.

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In this paper I rethink some of the premises in industrial-era social ontologies by rethinking how hybridized agencies, like cyborgs, actor networks, or humachines, decenter anthropocentric modernist conceptions of ‘man and the environment’. By using postmodernist claims that we now operate after ‘the end of Nature’ or ‘the death of Nature’, I build this paper from such conceptual hyperbole to explore how cyborg life-forms or humachinic social formations are reshaping the natural and social environments of contemporary fast capitalism on a global scale. These terms of analysis, in turn, could improve our understandings of the built and yet to be built environments in advanced technological economies and societies.

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Zeng, Fen, and Zhenjiang Shen. "Study on the Impact of Historic District Built Environment and Its Influence on Residents’ Walking Trips: A Case Study of Zhangzhou Ancient City’s Historic District." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 12 (June 18, 2020): 4367. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124367.

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Walking maintains an indisputable advantage as a simple transport mode over short distances. Various situations have shown that when staying in a walk-friendly built environment, people are more likely to walk and interact with their surroundings. Scholars have reported some evidence of the influence of neighbourhood environments on personal walking trips. Most existing studies of the correlation between the built environment and walking, however, have been conducted in the West and are cross-sectional, which leaves a gap in addressing the causality between built environments and walking under the intervention of regeneration measures. This study takes a historic district of a mid-sized city in China as the research area and reports the changes in the traditional residential district’s built environment caused by the implementation of urban regeneration. In this paper, we use physical and perceptual indicators to measure the walkability of the built environment. We identify the changed content of the built environment’s walkability and the change of residents’ walking behaviour through longitudinal and quasi-longitudinal methods. The conclusion shows that the implementation of a regeneration project of the historic district has greatly changed perceived walkability, which has significantly promoted residents’ recreational walking trips, especially among the population of middle-aged and elderly people in the district. The conclusion that the built environment’s change promotes recreational walking is contrary to the research performed in sprawling Western contexts such as in the US, and it provides a meaningful supplement for research on the topic in an Asian context.

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Daugelaite, Aurelija, Huriye Armagan Dogan, and Indre Grazuleviciute-Vileniske. "Characterizing sustainability aesthetics of buildings and environments: methodological frame and pilot application to the hybrid environments." Landscape architecture and art 19, no. 19 (December 30, 2021): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/j.landarchart.2021.19.06.

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Growing environmental awareness and emerging design and performance requirements related with the implementation of sustainability goals inevitably have an influence on construction, architecture, urban design and the development of our built environment in general. This influence is reflected both in the increasingly efficient ecological performance of built structures and the growing array of related technologies, and in the aesthetic expression of these environmentally conscious designs. The aesthetic expression of sustainability concept and values is sometimes referred to as sustainability aesthetics. The aim of this research is to develop and test a methodological framework for characterizing the sustainability aesthetics of the built environments. The elaborated methodological framework integrates biophilic design, sustainability aesthetics, regenerative design and genius loci as the most promising approaches, allowing the integration of human and environmental concerns. To test the framework, we selected historic built environments that reflect long-lasting sustainable co-existence between humans and their environment and represent hybrid characteristics of both architectural and urban space. One of the purposes selecting these environments for the case study was to determine the features of an organically evolved sustainability aesthetics that could become a valuable source of inspiration for architectural design and management of the built environments.

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Heraud, Richard, Andrew Gibbons, Gregory Breen, Stuart Deerness, Mary-Jo Gilligan, and Andrew Denton. "Politics and place: Listening to the built learning environment." Policy Futures in Education 17, no. 4 (May 22, 2018): 474–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210318777114.

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This article explores the ideological drivers behind learning environment discourses with a particular focus on the built environment and the ways in which the built environment narrates explicit and implicit ideology. The built environment reinforces ways of thinking in the day-to-day ordinary activities of the school space. However, it is important to recognise that both space and place are more than the built environment. In part, this paper’s task is to show how a theorisation of the relationship between policy and the built environment opens up a politics of space and place. The paper draws together the work of Penetito on place and Rancière on politics to provide a critique and theorisation of the experiences of school communities when subjected to the discourses of new learning environments. In order to engage in opening up to new ideas for policy making, the paper turns to space and place in design thinking. We look then to our knowledge of architecture, art and design to explore possibilities that remain somewhat under-imagined in contemporary theorisations of learning environments.

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Mulligan, Timothy D., Sinem Mollaoğlu-Korkmaz, Russell Cotner, and Adrienne Domas Goldsberry. "PUBLIC POLICY AND IMPACTS ON ADOPTION OF SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENTS: LEARNING FROM THE CONSTUCTION INDUSTRY PLAYMAKERS." Journal of Green Building 9, no. 2 (July 2014): 182–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/1943-4618-9.2.182.

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Sustainable practices in the built environment are becoming a more common phenomona as market penetration of green buildings grow. Despite the reported benefits of green buildings, barriers to sustainability still exist. To motivate wider adoption of sustainable built environments, this research studies public policy and its impacts. The study aims to understand the links between public policy, construction playmakers' (e.g., organizations', institutions', business owners', and developers') motivation to build green, and growth of sustainable built environments in the United States. As a step forward in this direction, this paper focuses on the case of Michigan and explores construction playmakers' motivations to build and/or occupy sustainable buildings and how effective current public policy in Michigan is at addressing these motivations. There is little research on the links among legislation, construction playmakers' motivation to build green, and the growth of sustainable built environment in the United States. This article's findings show that: 1) green building costs are still the most frequently-reported barrier to green building, 2) property developers are significantly less likely to utilize green building practices than other construction playmakers, 3) single-family residential buildings were the least likely building type to receive green certifications, and 4) construction playmakers report low levels of green policy awareness and use despite the presence of relevant public policies. These findings will provide direction for policy makers and advocates in creating policy that will effectively promote green building construction.

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Chau, Hing-Wah, and Elmira Jamei. "Age-Friendly Built Environment." Encyclopedia 1, no. 3 (August 10, 2021): 781–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia1030060.

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Age-friendly built environments have been promoted by the World Health Organisation (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland) under the Global Age-friendly Cities (AFC) movement in which three domains are related to the built environment. These are: housing, transportation, outdoor spaces and public buildings. The aim is to foster active ageing by optimising opportunities for older adults to maximise their independent living ability and participate in their communities to enhance their quality of life and wellbeing. An age-friendly built environment is inclusive, accessible, respects individual needs and addresses the wide range of capacities across the course of life. Age-friendly housing promotes ageing in familiar surroundings and maintains social connections at the neighbourhood and community levels. Both age-friendly housing and buildings provide barrier-free provisions to minimise the needs for subsequent adaptations. Age-friendly public and outdoor spaces encourage older adults to spend time outside and engage with others against isolation and loneliness. Age-friendly public transport enables older adults to get around and enhances their mobility. For achieving an age-friendly living environment, a holistic approach is required to enable independent living, inclusion and active participation of older adults in society. The eight domains of the AFC movement are not mutually exclusive but overlap and support with one another.

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Stoker, Philip, Andrea Garfinkel-Castro, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi, Wilson Odero, Martin N. Mwangi, Margie Peden, and Reid Ewing. "Pedestrian Safety and the Built Environment." Journal of Planning Literature 30, no. 4 (August 12, 2015): 377–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0885412215595438.

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Urban and regional planning has a contribution to make toward improving pedestrian safety, particularly in view of the fact that about 273,000 pedestrians were killed in road traffic crashes in 2010. The road is a built environments that should enhance safety and security for pedestrians, but this ideal is not always the case. This article presents an overview of the evidence on the risks that pedestrians face in the built environment. This article shows that design of the roadway and development of different land uses can either increase or reduce pedestrian road traffic injury. Planners need to design or modify the built environment to minimize risk for pedestrians.

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Pedersen, Marlene Rosager Lund, Thomas Viskum Gjelstrup Bredahl, Karsten Elmose-Østerlund, and Anne Faber Hansen. "Motives and Barriers Related to Physical Activity within Different Types of Built Environments: Implications for Health Promotion." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 15 (July 24, 2022): 9000. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159000.

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Studies have identified individuals’ motives and barriers as main predictors of physical-activity behaviour, while other studies found physical-activity behaviour to be related to characteristics of the built environment. However, studies that have a combined focus on motives and barriers and the built environment are less common. This scoping review aims to provide knowledge about motives and barriers related to physical activity within different types of built environments to mitigate this knowledge gap. A systematic literature search was performed in four scientific databases and yielded 2734 articles, of which 31 articles met the inclusion criteria. The review identified four types of built environments within which motives and barriers were studied, including walkability, cyclist infrastructure, neighbourhood parks and open spaces and sports facilities. Several common motives recur across all four types of built environments, especially easy accessibility and good facility conditions. Conversely, poor accessibility and inadequate facility conditions are common barriers. Our review also showed how some motives and barriers seem to be more context-specific because they were only identified within a few types of built environments. This knowledge may help target future health-promotion initiatives in relation to urban planning and the importance of the environment on physical activity.

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