The impact of housing design and quality on wellbeing: lived experiences of the home during COVID-19 in London DOI Creative Commons
Lucia Alonso, Sam Jacoby

Cities & Health, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 7(4), С. 615 - 627

Опубликована: Авг. 1, 2022

COVID-19 has heightened awareness of how housing design and quality can dramatically impact the mental physical wellbeing an individual. Adding to existing problems, long-term demographic changes, failures in building maintenance as well safety standards, pandemic exacerbated inequalities. Through 50 in-depth interviews with London residents conducted early 2021, paper studies experiences changing home uses perception domestic space affected participants during pandemic. The focuses on design-related aspects such environmental comfort, agency make changes a home, notions privacy security, lack space. This reveals use future preferences might have dwelling design. wide-ranging lived subjective perceptions call for more inclusive approach social policies that consider value architectural Based findings discussion, concludes policy recommendations should be taken into account improve

Язык: Английский

Investigating the current environmental situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic: urban vs. rural context DOI Creative Commons
Mohamed Abouzid, Dina M. El‐Sherif, Yahya Al Naggar

и другие.

BMC Public Health, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 22(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 26, 2022

Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to a massive global socio-economic tragedy that has impacted the ecosystem. This paper aims contextualize urban and rural environmental situations during COVID-19 in Middle East North Africa (MENA) Region.

Язык: Английский

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An automatic decision model for optimal noise barrier plan in terms of health impact, productivity, and cost aspects DOI
Jinwoo Choi, Juwon Hong, Hyuna Kang

и другие.

Building and Environment, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 216, С. 109033 - 109033

Опубликована: Март 28, 2022

Язык: Английский

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Sensing the pandemic: revealing and re-ordering the senses DOI
William Tullett, Hannah McCann

The Senses and Society, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 17(2), С. 170 - 184

Опубликована: Май 3, 2022

This article reviews an assembled archive of the literature published to date on sensory dimensions COVID-19 pandemic. Just as scholars have often highlighted periods revolution, we find that recent pandemic has augured some notable shifts, albeit more micro and domestic scale. We present a five-sense sensorium offers overview how senses been engaged with by during pandemic, what major issues themes been. Drawing literature, suggest there shifts in our sensate experiences increased awareness daily life may usually go unnoticed. However, also note many sensory-related inequalities revealed over this period, which continue unfold unevenly continues. argue going forward ought attend these questions inequality, well tracking possible undoing revolutions taken place so far.

Язык: Английский

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Effect of Environmental Planning on Elderly Individual Quality of Life in Severe Cold Regions: A Case Study in Northeastern China DOI Open Access

Hong Leng,

Bingbing Han

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 14(6), С. 3522 - 3522

Опубликована: Март 17, 2022

With the development of urbanization and ageing population, improvement urban environment quality life (QOL) elderly in cities with a cold climate have become critical issues to be addressed. However, only few studies focused on this aspect. According review literature, contents built (BE) severe regions are defined as thirteen key factors four categories (density, environmental aesthetics, outdoor environment, accessibility) QOL old people consists three aspects (residential, health, social satisfaction). This study explores how BE variables associated older adults by using ordered logit gologit2 models. The data consist results 1945 questionnaires from field surveys 11 different residential areas, across two northeastern China. show: (1) Walkability winter, distance public park 400–1000 m, shelters seating, less than five buses available, mixture evergreen deciduous trees most important that significant positive impact compared other climatic regions; (2) “Pocket parks” pedestrian walkway safety appropriate approaches improve wellbeing under local economic conditions. For transportation, metro rail transit systems encouraged, some rules needed reduce number harsh weather conditions; (3) Compared spatial distribution climates, scope 15 min city should 1km areas. From findings, we conclude there six possible pattern languages they can provide information for further planning regions.

Язык: Английский

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The impact of housing design and quality on wellbeing: lived experiences of the home during COVID-19 in London DOI Creative Commons
Lucia Alonso, Sam Jacoby

Cities & Health, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 7(4), С. 615 - 627

Опубликована: Авг. 1, 2022

COVID-19 has heightened awareness of how housing design and quality can dramatically impact the mental physical wellbeing an individual. Adding to existing problems, long-term demographic changes, failures in building maintenance as well safety standards, pandemic exacerbated inequalities. Through 50 in-depth interviews with London residents conducted early 2021, paper studies experiences changing home uses perception domestic space affected participants during pandemic. The focuses on design-related aspects such environmental comfort, agency make changes a home, notions privacy security, lack space. This reveals use future preferences might have dwelling design. wide-ranging lived subjective perceptions call for more inclusive approach social policies that consider value architectural Based findings discussion, concludes policy recommendations should be taken into account improve

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

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