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How hot is too hot for people? A review of empirical models of perceptual, physiological and functional limits of human heat tolerance

Experimental Physiology, Volume 111, Issue 4, Page 1669-1686, 1 April 2026.
Abstract How hot is too hot for people? This is a question that human thermal physiologists are asked often by a variety of knowledge users across the public and private sectors, who have grown aware of the negative impact of global warming on people's health and quality of life.
Davide Filingeri, Nuno Koch Esteves
wiley   +1 more source

Liveable City from an Economic Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Urban and Landscape Planning, 2017
The purpose of this article is to provide an overall image of what a liveable city is. Starting from the theoretical aspects presented in the first part of this work, and ending up with the practical ones, an attempt was made to provide an answer to the ...
Daniela Antonescu
doaj  

Localizing Social Aspects and Liveability Criteria in Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools; Case Study: New Urban Expansions in Cairo, Egypt

Prostor
Successful urban regeneration accentuates the major purpose of the built environment in achieving urban renewal, in particular preserving local identity and sense of place, promoting mixed-use communal living, and optimizing resources on a long-term plan.
Nouran Naguib, Kristina Careva, Rene Lisac   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability versus development: Mudanya's war of survival as a liveable city [PDF]

Sustainable development assumes that the natural and historical resources of a city which constitute to its local characteristics, will not yield to urban and regional pressures.
Nevin Turgut Gultekin, Ozlem Dundar, Zuhal Ozcan   +2 more
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Reinventing the regions: Victoria’s changing regional economies [PDF]

Regional Victoria accounts for around a quarter of the State\u27s population and economic output. In March 2013 Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan released the Reinventing the Regions report which documents the
Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Regional Development Victoria   +1 more
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The Impacts of Perceived Safety and Service Quality on Perceived Accessibility by Public Transport in Melbourne

Land
In recent years, accessibility to services and activities using sustainable transport modes has become an important goal for land use and transport planning policies. Traditional approaches rely on objective measures, such as travel time, distance, costs,
Hing-Wah Chau, Melissa Chan, Elmira Jamei, Katrin Lättman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing and testing a framework for the assessment of neighbourhood liveability in two contrasting countries:Iran and Estonia [PDF]

, 2014
Bell, Simon, Faizi, Mohsen, Hosseini, Seyed-Bagher, Norouzian Maleki, Saeid   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Sustainability versus development: Mudanya's war of survival as a liveable city [PDF]

, 1998
Sustainable development assumes that the natural and historical resources of a city which constitute to its local characteristics, will not yield to urban and regional pressures.
Dundar, Ozlem, Gultekin, Nevin Turgut, Ozcan, Zuhal   +2 more
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'It'll get worse before it gets better': Local experiences of living in a regeneration area [PDF]

, 2013
The negative consequences of living in deprived neighbourhoods for residents’ quality of life are well documented. Area-based regeneration initiatives are invariably concerned with improving local quality of life over the long term.
Braidford, Paul, Davidson, Gill, Greenhalgh, Paul, McGuinness, David, Robinson, Fred   +4 more
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Design for the old and you include the young:Revitalising urban design in regional Australia [PDF]

, 2012
Cartlidge, Nigel, Armitage, Lynne, O'Hare, Daniel   +2 more
core   +2 more sources