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Approaches to Outdoor Thermal Comfort Thresholds through Public Space Design: A Review
, 2018 Based on the Koppen Geiger (KG) classification system, this review article examines existing studies and projects that have endeavoured to address local outdoor thermal comfort thresholds through Public Space Design (PSD).
A. Nouri +3 more
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Geographies of public space: Variegated publicness, variegated epistemologies
Progress in Human Geography, 2018 Given the rapid diversification and mutation of public space and public life across the globe, this article theorises epistemologies of publicness that move the research agenda beyond the conceptual straitjacket of presence, accessibility and visibility.
Junxi Qian
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Public Space Users’ Soundscape Evaluations in Relation to Their Activities. An Amsterdam-Based Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Understanding the relationship between people and their soundscapes in an urban context of innumerable and diverse sensory stimulations is a difficult endeavor.
E. Bild +4 more
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Soundtracking the Public Space: Outcomes of the Musikiosk Soundscape Intervention
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Decades of research support the idea that striving for lower sound levels is the cornerstone of protecting urban public health. Growing insight on urban soundscapes, however, highlights a more complex role of sound in public spaces, mediated by context ...
Daniel Steele +3 more
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Preface: The Everyday Politics of Public Space
Space and Culture, 2019 While in the past two decades a rich literature has emerged about the politics of public space, many of these theoretical works and empirical studies consider public space interactions and behaviors against the backdrop of deliberative or representative ...
Mattias De Backer +2 more
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Public space quality evaluation: prerequisite for public space management
The Journal of Public Space, 2019 Public spaces are an important part of cities as they contribute to improvements in liveability, environmental quality and sustainability. Despite these conditions of public spaces in cities in developing countries like India, are far from desirable in ...
Seema Praliya, P. Garg
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Public space, public discourse, and public libraries [PDF]
Library and Information Science Research E-Journal, 2003 The traditional mission of the public library—supporting the self-education of the citizenry in order that they may become fully participating members in a democratic society—has been devalued of late in favour of popularizing the library to attract more users. This shift has led to an emphasis on entertainment and marketing, and an abandonment of what
Alstad, Colleen, Curry, Ann
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, 2018 This study explored the prevalence of sexual harassment, consequences of harassment, and reasons for not reporting these experiences through a survey among Swedish female university students (N = 1941). One fourth reported one or more incidents of sexual
Caroline Mellgren +2 more
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Public Space and Accessibility
Iconarp International J. of Architecture and Planning, 2018 Virtually everyone experiences a physical disability at some time in their lives; that is to say that their mobility has been restricted. An infant, en adult with an injury, a parent with a pushchair, an elderly person are all disabled in one way or another. Those who remain healthy and able-bodied throughout their lives are few.
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Outdoor thermal comfort in public space in warm-humid Guayaquil, Ecuador
International journal of biometeorology, 2017 The thermal environment outdoors affects human comfort and health. Mental and physical performance is reduced at high levels of air temperature being a problem especially in tropical climates. This paper deals with human comfort in the warm-humid city of
E. Johansson +3 more
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