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Tianqi Yu, Xiaoqi Zhan, Zichu Tian and Daoru Wang
The quality of residential buildings in old urban areas of Beijing is known to be inconsistent, prompting numerous urban renewal projects in the city. This research investigates how building space impacts energy usage and daylighting in courtyard areas o...
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Olga Zotova and Lyudmila Tarasova
Social and cultural changes have brought about a new understanding of the space?time continuum within which modern cities are evolving. A comfortable urban environment contributes to the development of a sustainable urban environment, to the psychologica...
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Zhiqing Zhao, Siyi Zhang and Yizhan Peng
In ancient Chinese architecture, Feng Shui was a prevalent practice used to enhance the built environment. This study utilized computer simulation techniques to assess the effectiveness of Long?Hu Sand layout Feng Shui in the Bailudong Academy complex in...
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Andrew Wilkinson, John N. Wilkinson, Peter Shotton, Enas Khalid Sufar, Gultekin Hasanaliyeva, Nikolaos Volakakis, Ismail Cakmak, Levent Ozturk, Paul Bilsborrow, Per Ole Iversen, Steve Wilcockson, Leonidas Rempelos and Carlo Leifert
Organic wheat production systems have lower yields compared with intensive conventional production and often do not achieve the grain protein content and quality thresholds set by millers and bakers. In contrast, organic production methods were reported ...
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Xudong Xie, Qianqian Yang, Weijun Gao and Shudi Wang
In winter, many rural people in the coastal areas of northern China burn coal for both cooking and heating. As a result, the rural population is seriously affected by indoor air pollution. To analyze the influence of the location of heating sources on th...
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Jieqi You, Minghao Wang, Jianru Li, Shen Xu, Changsheng Cao and Shuangquan Shao
In China?s typical high-density cities, in order to meet the residential needs, a Chinese characteristic and typical high-rise residence with multiple flats sharing one staircase has been created. Due to the Chinese cooking methods, such as frying and st...
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Victoria Patricia López-Cabeza, Eduardo Diz-Mellado, Carlos Alberto Rivera-Gómez and Carmen Galán-Marín
Outdoor comfort is gaining attention in the design of our cities to face the current context of rising temperatures. Although simulation is required to inform the early design stage of projects considering outdoor space and strategies to improve their th...
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Xiaoyi Zu, Zhixian Li, Chen Gao and Yi Wang
Urban-scale green spaces have been a central topic as of late, but community-scale green spaces are overlooked in urban studies. This paper takes community green spaces in the main urban area of Beijing as the case to quantitatively interpret the spatial...
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Mohammad Taleghani
Air pollution causes millions of mortalities and morbidities in large cities. Different mitigation strategies are being investigated to alleviate the negative impacts of different pollutants on people. Designing proper urban forms is one of the least stu...
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Jayda Martinez, Midhat Z. Jafry, Tzuan A. Chen, Michael S. Businelle, Darla E. Kendzor, Maggie Britton, Maya Vijayaraghavan and Lorraine R. Reitzel
Roughly 70?80% of adults experiencing homelessness smoke cigarettes. Smoke-free living/workplace policies are an empirically-supported tobacco control intervention. However, homeless shelters may be reluctant to implement smoke-free policies due to fears...
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