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Displays for the Built Environment
2015“Media architecture” is a term for installations in which displays are integrated into architectural structures. In this chapter, we address five unique qualities of media architecture displays: scale, shape, pixel configuration, pixel shape, and light quality.
Dalsgaard, Peter; id_orcid 0000-0001-9884-7178 +1 more
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The built environment and health
Perspectives in Public Health, 2012The built environment through its form, layout and design has an impact on the health of individuals and populations. The health impacts of the built environment are firstly the direct physical impacts on health through polluted air and water, poorly ventilated and heated buildings and the hazards of road traffic. But there are also significant impacts
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Damage and the Built Environment
2013The contribution provides a review of the different types of damage due to natural hazards in built environments, focusing on direct and indirect damage on the potential chains of damages and on the techniques for measuring damage.
GALDERISI, Adriana, Ceudech A.
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2022
AbstractThis chapter focuses on the relationships between the physical environment and the various digital informational augmentations that have been added to it over the years, increasing our understanding of space and perhaps time. Some of these layers are purely in the digital world: viewing streets or satellite views in Google maps.
Alan Dix +3 more
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AbstractThis chapter focuses on the relationships between the physical environment and the various digital informational augmentations that have been added to it over the years, increasing our understanding of space and perhaps time. Some of these layers are purely in the digital world: viewing streets or satellite views in Google maps.
Alan Dix +3 more
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2018
The built environment, which includes not only buildings but infrastructure, mediates several important climate impacts on public health and is also subject to diverse legal requirements. It is a subject of particular focus for policy efforts aimed at promoting adaptive responses to climate change on the part of institutions and individuals.
Gundlach, Justin M., Klein, Jennifer
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The built environment, which includes not only buildings but infrastructure, mediates several important climate impacts on public health and is also subject to diverse legal requirements. It is a subject of particular focus for policy efforts aimed at promoting adaptive responses to climate change on the part of institutions and individuals.
Gundlach, Justin M., Klein, Jennifer
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2020
The chapter starts defining the built environment and its main features, following the international standards and codes. The trends in the development of the built environment are analysed, and the community concept is defined considering these trends and the specifics observed in the urban and rural areas.
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The chapter starts defining the built environment and its main features, following the international standards and codes. The trends in the development of the built environment are analysed, and the community concept is defined considering these trends and the specifics observed in the urban and rural areas.
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2017
The most intensively studied societies within Southwest archaeology—the Ancestral “Pueblos”—have been defined by their architecture. Stark village ruins of stone and adobe, some perched high in cliff settings, dot much of the region and are today its major tourist attractions.
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The most intensively studied societies within Southwest archaeology—the Ancestral “Pueblos”—have been defined by their architecture. Stark village ruins of stone and adobe, some perched high in cliff settings, dot much of the region and are today its major tourist attractions.
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In the UK, it is estimated that over 80 percent of the built environment stock in 2050 has already been built. Whilst delivering the remaining 20 percent in the next three decades will present significant challenges, there is likely to be an increasing focus on the existing stock and its performance in the coming years.
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