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Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London (2021)
Journal Article
Torky, E., & Heath, T. (2021). Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London. Archnet-IJAR, 15(3), 589-604. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-12-2020-0294

Purpose: Street vendors create a vital urban street and a significant and important part of our urban areas are streets, they cater to our leisure, social and functional needs. There are many debates concerning street vendors; on one hand, there are... Read More about Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London.

Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities (2021)
Journal Article
Wu, X., Kou, Z., Oldfield, P., Heath, T., & Borsi, K. (2021). Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities. Buildings, 11(6), Article 252. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11060252

Informal learning spaces play a significant role in enriching student experiences in learning environments. Such spaces are becoming more common, resulting in a change to the spatial configuration of built environments in higher education. However, p... Read More about Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities.

Production of Space in Traditional Towns and Villages against the Backdrop of “Chinese Characteristics”: A Study of Rural Form Transformation in Huizhou (2021)
Journal Article
Cheng, X., & Heath, T. (2021). Production of Space in Traditional Towns and Villages against the Backdrop of “Chinese Characteristics”: A Study of Rural Form Transformation in Huizhou. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 32(2),

Traditional towns and villages in China have experienced profound formal transformation in recent years as a result of national political policies promoting rural development. By analyzing how this new production of space reflects efforts to achieve... Read More about Production of Space in Traditional Towns and Villages against the Backdrop of “Chinese Characteristics”: A Study of Rural Form Transformation in Huizhou.

Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach (2021)
Journal Article
Ma, Y., Deng, W., Xie, J., Heath, T., Xiang, Y., & Hong, Y. (2022). Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach. Building Simulation, 15(1), 17-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-021-0779-6

Building prototyping has regularly been used in building performance analyses with statistically feasible models. The novelty of this research involves a new hybrid approach combining stratified sampling and k-means clustering to establish building g... Read More about Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach.

Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand (2021)
Journal Article
Phetsuriya, N., & Heath, T. (2021). Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand. Social Sciences, 10(3), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10030101

Distinctiveness is a fundamental part of defining place identity. This paper aims to define the identity of place through the distinctiveness of the urban heritage of Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand. Chiang Mai Old City has unprecedented levels of dive... Read More about Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand.