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Enforcing Building Set Backs as a Viable Strategy for an Emerging City [PDF]

, 2017
For any emerging city to grow into a healthy and safe city, development guidelines and regulations which serve as a vital strategy should be considered and be adhered to. Most importantly the town and country planning laws which are purposely designed to
Attah, Umar Ahmed, Raji, Abdulazeez Umar
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Anatomy of density: measurable factors that constitute urban density

Buildings & Cities, 2021
Serious concerns about global warming have been translated into urgent calls for increasing urban densities, as higher densities are associated with lower carbon emissions from both vehicles and buildings.
Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Zeltia Gonzalez Blanco   +2 more
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A population-level framework to estimate unequal exposure to indoor heat and air pollution

Buildings & Cities
As people in the UK spend 95% of their time indoors, buildings are an important modifier of exposure to both non-optimal temperatures and air pollution.
Rebecca Cole, Charles H. Simpson, Lauren Ferguson, Phil Symonds, Jonathon Taylor, Clare Heaviside, Peninah Murage, Helen L. Macintyre, Shakoor Hajat, Anna Mavrogianni, Michael Davies   +10 more
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Modelling Nigerian residential dwellings: bottom-up approach and scenario analysis

Buildings & Cities
Nigeria’s residential buildings consume a substantial amount of the country’s energy, so achieving a net-zero building sector with a rapidly growing population is a key challenge.
Chibuikem Chrysogonus Nwagwu, Sahin Akin, Edgar G. Hertwich   +2 more
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Urban microclimate in temperate climates: a summary for practitioners

Buildings & Cities, 2021
A summary is presented of current knowledge and key considerations in urban climate mitigation that have a bearing on planning practice in temperate climates.
Rohinton Emmanuel
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Energy sufficiency and recognition justice: a study of household consumption

Buildings & Cities
The energy ‘crisis’ in Switzerland during the winter of 2022–23 highlighted the need to integrate the idea of sufficiency into previously efficiency-focused discourses and policies.
Alice Guilbert
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Urban design attributes and resilience: COVID-19 evidence from New York City

Buildings & Cities, 2021
This paper juxtaposes existing public policies and different planning paradigms with evidence from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City (NYC).
Yang Yang, Yihong Li, Katharina Kral, Nathaniel Hupert, Timur Dogan   +4 more
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Linking housing, socio-demographic, environmental and mental health data at scale

Buildings & Cities
Mental disorders are a growing problem worldwide, putting pressure on healthcare systems and wider society. Anxiety and depression are estimated to cost the global economy US$1 trillion per year, yet only 2% of global median government healthcare ...
Phil Symonds, Charles H. Simpson, Giorgos Petrou, Lauren Ferguson, Anna Mavrogianni, Michael Davies   +5 more
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The changing typology of urban apartment buildings in Aurinkolahti

Buildings & Cities
This case study examines changes in apartment building layouts in the Aurinkolahti neighbourhood of metropolitan Helsinki, Finland, against the backdrop of rapid urban growth and shrinking apartment sizes.
Sanna Meriläinen, Anne Tervo
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Systemic inequalities in indoor air pollution exposure in London, UK

Buildings & Cities, 2021
Deprived communities in many cities are exposed to higher levels of outdoor air pollution, and there is increasing evidence of similar disparities for indoor air pollution exposure. There is a need to understand the drivers for this exposure disparity in
Lauren Ferguson, Jonathon Taylor, Ke Zhou, Clive Shrubsole, Phil Symonds, Mike Davies, Sani Dimitroulopoulou   +6 more
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