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Defining and Effectively Delineating the Peri-Urban Area: A Synthesis and Analysis from a Literature Review (2023)
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Peri-urban areas are neither urban nor rural in the conventional sense; and their conditions and issues are different from urban and rural areas, which mix both with complexities. Nowadays, there is no uniform definition for these areas, nor an unequ... Read More about Defining and Effectively Delineating the Peri-Urban Area: A Synthesis and Analysis from a Literature Review.

How Does Buddhist Contemplative Space Facilitate the Practice of Mindfulness? (2022)
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This paper examines the spaces where Buddhist spiritual activity—specifically mindfulness practice—takes place, exploring how contemporary urban Buddhist contemplative places may benefit people’s mindful experience. Historical Buddhist contemplative... Read More about How Does Buddhist Contemplative Space Facilitate the Practice of Mindfulness?.

The impact of ‘seasonal urban event’ to the hosting city’s urban vitality: case study of Summer beach and Winter Wonderland in Nottingham, UK (2022)
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Hosting seasonal urban events in open public spaces has a significant impact on urban vitality. By reviewing the categorisation of urban events, this paper explains the charactersitics of ‘Seasonal Urban Event’ through time, scale, location, format,... Read More about The impact of ‘seasonal urban event’ to the hosting city’s urban vitality: case study of Summer beach and Winter Wonderland in Nottingham, UK.

An analysis of the spatial evolution and influencing factors of rural settlements along the Shandong section of the Grand Canal of China (2021)
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Since 1980s, the weakening of the transportation function of the Grand Canal and rapid urbanisation have generated significant changes in the spatial pattern of rural settlements along the Grand Canal. Analysing the changing characteristics of this s... Read More about An analysis of the spatial evolution and influencing factors of rural settlements along the Shandong section of the Grand Canal of China.

Coordinated energy-environmental-economic optimisation of building retrofits for optimal energy performance on a macro-scale: A life-cycle cost-based evaluation (2021)
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Given that energy-efficiency policies focus on meso- or macro-scale interventions, it is imperative to establish a macro-scale evaluation approach for building retrofits to support policymaking in building energy conservation, management and sustaina... Read More about Coordinated energy-environmental-economic optimisation of building retrofits for optimal energy performance on a macro-scale: A life-cycle cost-based evaluation.

A target-driven decision-making multi-layered approach for optimal building retrofits via agglomerative hierarchical clustering: A case study in China (2021)
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The optimization of energy, environmental and economic (3E) outcomes is the principal approach to identifying retrofit solutions for a sustainable built environment. By applying this approach and defining a set performance target, this study proposes... Read More about A target-driven decision-making multi-layered approach for optimal building retrofits via agglomerative hierarchical clustering: A case study in China.

Correlation between building characteristics and associated energy consumption: Prototyping low-rise office buildings in Shanghai (2020)
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V. The enormous building energy consumption in Shanghai necessitates the identification of standard buildings to offer guidance for the adequate design of retrofitting strategies in order to promote a sustainable built and architect... Read More about Correlation between building characteristics and associated energy consumption: Prototyping low-rise office buildings in Shanghai.

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In order to solve the problem that the traditional method is very complex in safety assessment of primary and secondary school, which cannot get an objective result quickly. The method of calculating the natural visibility ratio within the students'... Read More about ??????????????????.

A study of renewal strategies for old industrial buildings skin based on transparency (2019)
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Analysis of the Spatial Characteristics of Stanley Resso Residence (2019)
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Resso residence has an important meaning for us to understand the change of the architectural space concept in the process of Mies design, especially his understanding of the relationship between interior and exterior space. This article focuses on t... Read More about Analysis of the Spatial Characteristics of Stanley Resso Residence.

Using quantitative analysis to assess the appropriateness of infill buildings in historic settings (2017)
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Over the past 40 years or so, and more recently in developing countries, increasing attention has been paid to the preservation of historic settings; however, with continued development and urbanization, a solution is needed for the problem of how to... Read More about Using quantitative analysis to assess the appropriateness of infill buildings in historic settings.

Case Study on Economic and Social Transformation of Rural-Urban Fringe in China and the UK by Comparison between Beeston in Nottngham and Dajing in Zhangzhou (2014)
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