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Quantifying CO2 Emissions and Energy Production from Power Plants to Run HVAC Systems in ASHRAE-Based Buildings
(MDPI, 2022-11-22)Recent evidence available in the literature has highlighted that the high-energy consumption rate associated with air conditioning leads to the undesired “overcooling” condition in arid-climate regions. To this ... -
Exploring Tourists' Multilevel Spatial Cognition of Historical Town Based on Multi-Source Data - A Case Study of Feng Jing Ancient Town in Shanghai
(MDPI, 2022-11-01)Conducting research on the spatial cognition of tourists in historical towns helps to balance cultural heritage protection and tourism development. However, the current tourist cognition research is not comprehensive enough ... -
Attitudes and Perceptions of Community Gardens: Making a Place for Them in Our Neighborhoods
(MDPI, 2022-10-11)Although community gardens provide numerous economic, environmental, and social benefits, some have been lost to other land uses due to the lack of organized and effective public support. Knowledge about people’s ... -
Deep Meaning in Scenic Assessment: Seeing around the Bend
(MDPI, 2022-09-23)Many of today’s scenic assessment tools were developed initially to preserve the visual quality of public lands and to mitigate the negative visual impacts of large-scale landscape alterations, such as timber harvesting, ... -
Application of Comprehensive Evaluation in New-Product-Development Evaluation: The Case of Landscape-Architectural Outdoor Wooden Furnishing
(MDPI, 2022-09-23)Successful new product development (NPD) is critical for modern outdoor wooden furnishing (OWF) manufacturing companies to achieve competitive success, since current users have the serious requirements of aesthetics, ... -
An Encounter with Stone: designing with the aesthetic force of post-mining landscapes
(2022-10)Quarries are inherently complex situations that offer a unique and timely challenge to contemporary landscape architects. Their inherently technical and operational nature tends to lead to an equally technical response by ... -
An Evaluation Model of Riparian Landscape: A Case in Rural Qingxi Area, Shanghai
(MDPI, 2022-09-08)The suburbs around Shanghai have a complex river network and a unique Chinese water-town culture. The riparian landscape in the rural Qingxi area has important regional, ecological, and social significance; it serves as ... -
Examining the Conceptual Model of Potential Urban Development Patch (PUDP), VOCs, and Food Culture in Urban Ecology: A Case in Chengdu, China
(MDPI, 2022-08-26)In China, traditional food is a significant element of culture that affects human behaviors. The point of interest (POI) of traditional food restaurants’ location and their volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions ... -
Environmentally Driven Aggregate Façade Systems
(Springer, 2021-09-22)Even though computer simulation of environmental factors and manufacturing technologies have experienced a fast development, architectural workflows that can take advantage of the possibilities created by these developments ... -
Viewing the Landscape of the George Washington Memorial Parkway: A Cultural History of Scenic Resources and Landscape Ideology
(MDPI, 2022-07-29)This paper investigates several views along the George Washington Memorial Parkway, which runs along the Potomac River between Washington, DC, and George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon. It focuses on the role these ... -
Arthurdale Reviewed: Sustainable New Deal Housing in Appalachia
(2021-05-21)This work in progress is connected to Eleanor Roosevelt’s passion to provide residents of an Appalachian coal-mining town an opportunity to live in a community based on principles of sustainability and social justice. ... -
Resilient Experiments in Rural Housing: Architectural Experiments in Planned Housing
(2021-11-18)Single family houses contribute substantially to climate change in the US and other parts of the world. In the US specifically, most housing has been designed by builders and developers. The motivation has not been ... -
No compromise: The integration of technology and aesthetics
(Informa UK Limited, 2006-11-01)Solar technology is burdened with a stigma that contradicts a sense of proportion and beauty in building. Arbitrarily attached to new or existing construction, the technology is often associated with a small clique of ... -
How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Perceptions of Public Space Employees?
(MDPI, 2021-12-03)The purpose of this study is to derive the subjective perception about COVID-19 of public space employees and to identify the characteristics of COVID-19 related issues. By using the Q-method, 24 workers in four public ... -
Degentrification? Different Aspects of Gentrification before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
(MDPI, 2021-11-11)The purpose of this study is to explore the aspects of “gentrification” and “degentrification” other than economic factors. To this end, this study focused on the gentrification situations occurring before and after the ... -
Recognition Changes of the Concept of Urban Resilience: Moderating Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic
(MDPI, 2021-10-16)Urban resilience, which has emerged as an important concept in cities since sustainability became a 21st-century urban paradigm, reflects the needs of the times to change and bring about a shift in existing national landscape ... -
Safely and Actively Aging in Place: Older Adults’ Attitudes and Intentions Toward Smart Home Technologies
(SAGE Publications, 2021-01-01)As smart technology use is growing in residential environments, research on how such technologies can provide opportunities for safely and actively aging in place by integrating physical activity into daily routines and ... -
Democracy, discourse, and design: Cape Town’s (re)turn to public space
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-09)Public spaces had been central to Cape Town’s colonial planning and spatial order, but became marginalised in the twentieth century under modernist planning and apartheid policy. As apartheid came towards its close, ... -
Better by Design? Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Good City
(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020-10-09)The design professions—architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, and urban design—share a great deal in terms of intellectual antecedents, professional ideals, and praxis. In particular, they share a commitment ... -
Tweeting the High Line Life: A Social Media Lens on Urban Green Spaces
(MDPI, 2020-10-27)The objective of this study is to investigate elevated parks as urban green spaces using social media data analytics. Two popular elevated parks, the High Line Park in New York and the 606 in Chicago, were selected as the ...
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