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Age-Friendly Built Environment

Encyclopedia, 2021
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.
Hing-Wah Chau, Elmira Jamei
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Robotically driven construction of buildings: Exploring on-demand building components production

Spool, 2014
Robotically Driven Construction of Buildings (RDCB) is an exploration into design to production solutions for robotically driven construction of buildings initiated by the faculties of Civil Engineering and Architecture, TU Delft and Architecture, TU ...
Henriette Bier, Sina Mostafavi, Ana Anton, Serban Bodea, Berend Raaphorst, Guus Mostart, Hans de Jonge, Jeroen van Lit, Jan Paclt, Kasper Siderius, Marco Galli, Michal Kornecki, Mohammad Jooshesh Oana Anghelache, Perry Low, Radoslaw Flis, Rob Moors, Rutger Roodt, Ruth Hoogenraad, Stef Hoeijmakers, Steph Kanters, Thijs IJperlaan, Peter Rem, Somayeh Lotfi, Eleonora di Domenica, Theo Salet, Jordy Vos, Adrie van der Burgt, Bas van Wezel, Christiaan Voorend, Chiel Bekkers, Iris Rombouts, Luc Gerlings, Marieke de Vries, Marijn Bruurs, Rob Wolfs, Siert Saes, Tim Span, Wout Rouwhorst   +37 more
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The Built Environment for Professionalism [PDF]

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2020
The social contract between the public and health professions is fraying, challenged by changes in the organization and financing of health care, and by a collective failure to meet some of the expectations of society. It is timely for family medicine to acknowledge the social contract, to accept responsibility for its the role in renegotiating this ...
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Sensing Hotterdam: Crowd sensing the Rotterdam urban heat island

Spool, 2014
Sensing Hotterdam recorded the temperature in 1,000 Rotterdam homes and at 300 public spaces in the summer of 2014 in order to outline the links between the urban heat island, the built environment and public health in the city of Rotterdam.
Frank van der Hoeven, Alexander Wandl, Betul Demir, Sophie Dikmans, Jafeth Hagoort, Marco Moretto, Pinar Sefkatli, Frans Snijder, Siriluck Songsri, Patrick Stijger, Natalie Yakovleva, Derk Wijtsma, Bert Blocken   +12 more
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Health and the Built Environment [PDF]

Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2003
The 4 articles that follow summarize the consequences for the health of populations, especially in cities and their metropolitan regions, of publicand private-sector decisions about characteristics of the built environment. The Milbank Memorial Fund commissioned these articles, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ...
Daniel M, Fox, Richard J, Jackson, Jeremiah A, Barondess   +2 more
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DoubleFace: Adjustable translucent system to improve thermal comfort

Spool, 2014
The DoubleFace project aims at developing a new product that passively improves thermal comfort of indoor and semi-indoor spaces by means of lightweight materials for latent heat storage, while simultaneously allowing daylight to pass through as much as
Michela Turrin, Martin Tenpierik, Paul de Ruiter, Willem van der Spoel, Carlos Chang Lara, Florian Heinzelmann, Patrick Teuffel, Wout van Bommel   +7 more
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The Built Environment and Obesity [PDF]

Epidemiologic Reviews, 2007
Obesity results from a complex interaction between diet, physical activity, and the environment. The built environment encompasses a range of physical and social elements that make up the structure of a community and may influence obesity. This review summarizes existing empirical research relating the built environment to obesity.
Mia A, Papas, Anthony J, Alberg, Reid, Ewing, Kathy J, Helzlsouer, Tiffany L, Gary, Ann C, Klassen   +5 more
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Re3 Glass: A new generation of Recycable, Reducible and Reusable cast glass components for structural and architectural applications

Spool, 2018
A spectacular glass brick system - developed to make the historic storefront of the Crystal Houses (Chanel store) in Amsterdam transparent - illustrates the great potential of cast glass blocks in structures.
Telesilla Bristogianni, Faidra Oikonomopoulou, Lida Barou, Fred Veer, Rob Nijsse, Erwin Jacobs, Giulia Frigo   +6 more
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Achieving sustainable cities: analysis of the factors that influence compliance with telecommunication masts siting standards in Ghana

Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2023
Factors that influence compliance with the standards that regulate the siting of telecommunication masts remain unclear in the conventional literature.
Emmanuel Amponsah, Stephen Appiah Takyi, Michael Osei Asibey, Owusu Amponsah   +3 more
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Obesity and the Built Environment [PDF]

Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 2005
Biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors are unable to fully explain or curtail the obesity epidemic. In this article we review research on the influence of the built environment on obesity. Studies were evaluated with regard to their methods of assessing the environment and obesity, as well as to their effects.
Booth, Katie M., Pinkston, Megan M., Poston, Walker S. Carlos   +2 more
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